Concept: Open call to the Produce Like A Boss community and anyone Kris helped learn to record — invited to sing the Oh's in the bridge. Parts assigned by vocal range (soprano, alto, etc.). Simple, accessible, just 8 bars.
Submission format: Video of themselves singing their part. These submissions become the music video — a mosaic of real people who were part of the PLAB journey, now literally part of the record.
Credits: All participants credited as background vocalists on the recording. Featured in the music video.
Campaign: Social media rollout with assigned parts, submission instructions, and a deadline. This is both a music moment and a community moment — and a powerful piece of content in itself.
Song Sheet - Disc One / Act 1 Closer / Single · Oct 16, 2026
Built from the song. The thesis of Renovate Me is that the renovation is a change of perception, not a change of circumstance: nothing outside the narrator moves, only the words she uses and the point of view she takes. Every angle below is anchored to a line in the lyric.
Fan hook. If you've ever stopped trying to make something useful and just let it be honest instead — this song is for you.
I used to write a lot of music for film and TV.
There's a craft to it. You learn what works. You learn what gets cut. You learn how to write something that will sit underneath a scene without distracting from it. It's a real skill, and I'm grateful I learned it. But after a while you start to forget what writing feels like when you're not trying to sell it to anyone.
A few years went by. I got back together with SideTripp — Justin and Stelle, two of my oldest collaborators — for the first time in a long time. We sat down to write, and before we even picked up our instruments, I said something that surprised me.
Can we just write something honest today? Not something we're trying to place. Not something we're trying to sell. Something true.
We all agreed. And then we sat there in silence for a minute, because the truth was none of us were doing very well. We were tired in the way you only get tired when you've been performing a version of okay for too long.
This song is what came out when we stopped performing.
"This one's about the day I figured out my life wasn't the problem. The way I was talking about my life was the problem. It's called Renovate Me."
"I spent about twenty years writing music for film and TV. You get good at writing things that sell. You also forget what it feels like to write something you actually mean. So I got back in a room with two of my oldest friends and said, can we just write something honest today. Nothing we're trying to place. And then all three of us went quiet, because none of us were doing very well. We'd all been performing a version of okay for a long time. This is what came out when we stopped. And then 71 people from my community sang on the chorus, which still gets me. It's called Renovate Me."
"Quick question and you can answer honestly. Has hell become a place on earth, or does my mind just need some rearranging?" (let them react) "Yeah. That's the song."
Kris singing while a house inside her body, where her heart is, gets built room by room like a blueprint. Stacked floors. The bottom two levels get demolished first, because you clean up the basement before you build anything on top of it. The house is the point: the renovation is internal, and the song never once says anything outside her changed.
The singers arrive in the chorus. Their clips fill the windows of the house as the floors go up. By the final chorus every window is lit and occupied. The visual argument: she said "only I can save me" and then 71 people showed up anyway. That tension is the best thing the video can do, and it sets up Act Two without spoiling it.
She has been hesitant about AI video because audiences disengage, and she is right that a generic AI look would sink this. The blueprint-house-inside-the-body concept is the one place it earns its keep, because it cannot be shot practically and because a drawn, architectural, deliberately illustrated style reads as art direction rather than as a shortcut. Keep every shot of Kris and every singer clip real. Use generation only for the house.
Most "rebuild yourself" songs are about circumstances changing. This one argues the opposite: nothing outside the narrator changes, only her language and her point of view, and that turns out to be the renovation. That is a genuinely different thesis and it is the pitch. The 71 singers are the second paragraph, not the first.
Confirmed: every single in the campaign gets its own billboard. Not a phase-4 or cash-flow-permitting extra, a locked part of each release.
Dark green field, baseball cap portrait, the line set large. The song title and the date sit small underneath. The line works on a billboard because it reads as a statement rather than as a lyric, and anyone who doesn't know the song still takes something from it.