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" New cool girl rocker and fiery redhead Reni Lane stopped by the Seventeen offices to hang out and dish on her new single, &amp;quot;Place For Us&amp;quot; (now available on iTunes!), how she dreams up her songs \u2014 literally!, and her ultra geeky past. 17: So, your new album is coming out around Christmas, but your first single just came out last week. Tell us more about the album! Reni Lane: It&amp;#039;s my first major label debut and it&amp;#039;s a little bit different from the last record I did because I was signed and it pushed me in a really cool way. I was more driven and I had deadlines, so I think it made my writing better and my lyrics better because I really wanted to look at every line and make it the best it can be. 17: What&amp;#039;s your favorite song on the album? RL: The first one, &amp;quot;Place For Us&amp;quot;, is definitely my favorite song, and I know it&amp;#039;s a lot of people&amp;#039;s favorite song, because it&amp;#039;s a little more rock and roll and a lot of people who see me live are like &amp;quot;Wow, you&amp;#039;re like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but new.&amp;quot; So &amp;quot;Place For Us&amp;quot; is a good intro track if you want to get to know me and what my music is about and what my lyrics are about. 17: You write most of your songs. What inspires your songwriting? RL:  I get a lot of inspiration from random things people will say to me, little phrases that catch me off guard. Like, &amp;quot;Never Be Another You.&amp;quot; Someone said that offhandedly, like &amp;quot;Oh, there will never be another you&amp;quot; and I was like, &amp;quot;Oh, that&amp;#039;d be a cool song.&amp;quot; Also I get a lot of inspiration from dreams, actually. I have dreams where I hear melodies or a certain lyric and it feeds the rest of the song. Dreams, because they&amp;#039;re just so weird, it gives you a good idea for something that hasn&amp;#039;t been written about before. 17: Which songs are about dreams? RL: &amp;quot;Place For Us,&amp;quot; is from a dream. I know that &amp;quot;Even You&amp;quot; is from a dream I had. I think &amp;quot;Ready&amp;quot; was from a dream as well. So there&amp;#039;s a couple of songs. 17: Did you do any cool collaborations on this album? RL: One of the songs, &amp;quot;Call,&amp;quot; was written by this guy, Joseph Arthur. When I was in high school, I heard him on The O.C. soundtrack and I was like &amp;quot;Oh my gosh this is so cool!&amp;quot; And one of the first months I moved to New York, I was walking down the street with my manager and we saw him outside a movie theater. And my manager had worked with him, and I was like &amp;quot;Oh my gosh, I love your music!&amp;quot; and then we became really good friends. And he brought this song to me, and was like &amp;quot;Do you want to sing this song?&amp;quot; And I was like, &amp;quot;Yeah! This is awesome.&amp;quot; So it&amp;#039;s kind of a cool story. Like I was a fan and then I got to meet him and now he&amp;#039;s on my speed dial. 17: Awesome! Besides being into The O.C., what else were you like in high school? RL: I was kind of a huge geek in high school. I never really thought of myself as pretty or cool at all. I just did what I knew what was fun and worked for me. And that ended up making me unique and interesting. I played trombone in marching band. I wore the uniform, I did the whole thing. Everywhere I went I was the only girl playing trombone. All the guys that play trombone are usually really big, really tall, either this way or that way. I was also head of the math honor society. And I was on the newspaper staff. I did way too much stuff. I was in Model UN. I liked being the geeky kid. I also know how to design websites. I designed my own website. Have you checked out her single? Are you in the marching band? Sound off below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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