September 13, 2024Sep 13 Oh absolutely, it's been nice to see quite a few interview moments from her as well that I hope people who turned on her previously can rethink their stance after seeing them plus her performance, which was completely brilliant
September 16, 2024Sep 16 Roan revealed she spent a lot of her summer pushing back on her label’s request to film a music video for her big hit, mostly because she didn’t really have time to make a good one. “I’m too tired,” she said, in between festival dates around the country and recording sessions for her next batch of music. “Do you know how hard it is to do a music video when you’re this exhausted and burnt?” Like everything else in her career, Roan let her own instinct be a guide. “It’s a hit without a video,” she said, repeating what she told her team. “I have a Top 10 hit with a lyric video.” She goes on to point out that success is never linear. What has worked for past hits won’t always work for future ones. “Isn’t that crazy that you don’t need everything you thought you needed to have millions of TikTok and Instagram? I didn’t have that when it first all started kind of blowing up, and I didn’t have video. I didn’t have a trend. I stood my ground and I said I’m not going to take every social opportunity. I’m not going to take every brand deal. I’m not going to take every suggestion, because at the end of the day, it’s me doing the manual labor that everyone else thinks I should just be doing.” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-fe...ory-1235099765/
September 16, 2024Sep 16 Just realised I posted that titbit about Good Luck, Babe's video in the wrong topic :kink: Thanks for posting. Is the article anywhere to read for free? :unsure: Here! :D Bonus Chappell Why A ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ Video Probably Isn’t Coming Soon — And More Things We Learned Hanging With Chappell Roan The pop supernova on her favorite horror films, her friendship with Sasha Colby, and other things we couldn't fit into her recent cover story By Brittany Spanos As Chappell Roan either bedazzled her grinder and applied red press-on nails during her recent cover story interview, she opened up about a range of topics that offer a window not just into her particularly crazy year but also into her voracious lists of interests and observations. From more industry double-standards to her Letterboxd account, here are some things we learned that we couldn’t fit into the cover story. Don’t expect a “Good Luck, Babe!” video any time soon… Roan revealed she spent a lot of her summer pushing back on her label’s request to film a music video for her big hit, mostly because she didn’t really have time to make a good one. “I’m too tired,” she said, in between festival dates around the country and recording sessions for her next batch of music. “Do you know how hard it is to do a music video when you’re this exhausted and burnt?” Like everything else in her career, Roan let her own instinct be a guide. “It’s a hit without a video,” she said, repeating what she told her team. “I have a Top 10 hit with a lyric video.” She goes on to point out that success is never linear. What has worked for past hits won’t always work for future ones. “Isn’t that crazy that you don’t need everything you thought you needed to have millions of TikTok and Instagram? I didn’t have that when it first all started kind of blowing up, and I didn’t have video. I didn’t have a trend. I stood my ground and I said I’m not going to take every social opportunity. I’m not going to take every brand deal. I’m not going to take every suggestion, because at the end of the day, it’s me doing the manual labor that everyone else thinks I should just be doing.” She’s become well-versed in the music industry’s double standards. Roan is embodying a drag persona as a pop star. That means she sees a very huge difference between who she is on and off stage. Her big year has made it clear that to exist as a woman artist comes with caveats the men in her field don’t deal with. “One thing that makes me so upset because they don’t do it to boys is they always have to say my name,” she says, referring to non-profile articles and reviews. “Chappell Roan, in parentheses, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz. I was in the same article as Shaboozey, and they didn’t say Shaboozey’s real name. I notice it every time. They always say the girl’s name, their real name, because it’s like God forbid they can be fully an artist.” She’s already thinking about what it will look like as she ages in this industry. “I don’t remember who said it, a woman comedian I think, who was like, ‘You are discarded after you are considered unf***able,’” she quotes. “Such an insane double standard that I’m just realizing more and more as I get more successful and older. People only care about you just being really hot. That’s it. There couldn’t possibly be anything more interesting about you than being gorgeous, and that’s why I feel so comfortable dressing sometimes scary or really jarring.” Her concert themes may not last forever. Since Roan launched her first headlining tour in early 2023, she has built specific themes around each show, all based off her songs or lyrics. She encourages the audience to dress up accordingly. At a “My Kink Is Karma”-themed show, for example, the audience wore blindingly red clothes with some people going all out to recreate her music video look or simply sporting red cowboy hats or devil horns. “I shot myself in the foot so hard with that decision because now I’m just like, ‘I don’t know what the themes are,’” she said, referring to fans asking how they should dress up as soon as tickets dropped for her live dates this year. “People love it so I do it for the people at this point because it really means a lot to them, and it means a lot to me. But now I’m stuck in all these f***ing themes.” She will, however, always have local drag queens open for her shows. “Look, I love the Drag Race girls, but sometimes they take up all the slots in towns because they’re on Drag Race, and the little queens just sometimes don’t have a platform as big. It’s important for people to know, ‘Oh my God, there are queens in my town. I had no idea.’” Festivals have allowed her to explore the potential of her drag persona. Before her career blew up, Roan used to make her video and stage outfits from scratch. Now, she and her team spend months whipping up the extravagant costumes for the stage. And many of these looks have been in the works since before she even saw her numbers explode. “Everything has to be planned months and months and months in advance because everything’s custom now, which is so awesome,” she explained. “No brand is making me a hot pink, glitter, latex wrestling suit. Everything has to be custom and it just takes a long time. For Lolla, we had planned it when I was on the Olivia tour, so February, March.” She’s been enjoying the way people have been looking forward to her looks with each show. “I think we are eventually going to run out of themes, so I’m dreading that, but I like to keep it weird and fresh because it’s exciting for the fans to be like, ‘Oh my God, what is she going to walk out in?’ You’re always excited to see what a drag queen wears. It’s like, ‘What is she going to wear tonight?’ She could be anything. Why are you doing this if you’re just going to take it so seriously?” Keeping a band ain’t easy “Dude, it is hard in the f***ing music industry to find women,” Roan admitted. She’s been trying to maintain a close to consistent band of girls to back her at her shows but many are in demand, have other projects or just hard to find. “It’s hard to find a band. It’s just hard to find girls, girls who rock, and girls who rock and are okay with wearing latex in 100 degrees.” She goes back to summer camp every year Roan credits much of her growth as a person and artist to attending summer camp. She attended a few but there is one in the Pacific Northwest she returns to either get some down time or to offer mentorship. She attended this summer’s camp to do a lecture and Q&A with the aspiring artists who attend to offer insight on the industry and her experiences. “Summer camp just makes me feel like it’s not about me, and that’s what I really struggle with is just feeling like everything is so about me,” she explained. “My whole life is just like ‘me, me, me’ and it just feels so selfish. It feels so delusional. I get why a lot of people become assholes because you just feel like everything should be about you all the time.” Even as her career continues to blow up, she hopes she can find the time to return every year. “I like giving back to a community. It makes me feel like a good person, and it just makes me happy to be around kids who are just like me when I was 16. To give back to kids who want to do this exact job is really special and not something that the music industry can offer.” Sasha Colby dubbed Roan an official member of the Colby drag family. Roan has made no secret of her immense fandom of RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Colby, a drag legend whose phrase “your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen” inspired one of Roan’s first big viral moments. Colby and Roan finally met in July when the drag superstar joined the pop superstar on stage at Capitol Hill Block Party. “She officially named me a Colby,” Roan gushed. “She’s the best. She looked amazing. It was just like, damn, through this job I get to meet people I look up to a lot. It just made me feel really important and good about myself.” She has a list of horror movies on Letterboxd. Roan is a big horror movie fan and had tickets to see Long Legs a few days after our first interview in LA. She excitedly whipped out her phone to show me the list of horror movies she wants to watch that she stores on her private Letterboxd account, mostly the truly “horrifying” type of scary movies produced in Japan, Taiwan and other Asian markets. Some recent horror movies she enjoyed were Talk to Me (“I thought that was so special for a horror movie to make me cry”) and Barbarian.
September 16, 2024Sep 16 Such a shame it's unlikely to have a proper video to go with it, but if that's a conscious decision then I suppose there's not really a lot you can do.
September 16, 2024Sep 16 Thanks Jay! :heart: Interesting point she raises about her real name being mentioned in articles yet it never happens with male artists.
September 16, 2024Sep 16 0cl6Jw2w8Kw US talk show reaction to her confrontation with a paparazzo on the VMA red carpet. The silly bint in the floral doesn't have a clue. :smoke:
September 16, 2024Sep 16 She is doing so much just now in fairness and she absolutely has to put her own health first. She's such a visual artist as well, I know she wouldn't want to put a video out just for the sake of it, she'd want to execute it perfectly and with a lot of concept behind it I imagine (just look at her VMAs performance). As much as it would be great to have and probably would boost the song a little more again, I really don't think a music video is as essential nowadays as it was say ten years ago purely based on how many of us stream songs primarily or it's radio plays etc. It's not as much of a thing now to sit and watch the music channels, at least imo. I saw Chappell last night and she was nothing short of incredible, the atmosphere in the venue as well was incomparable - the loudest crowd I've ever experienced. I don't think she'll be doing venues that small again so I felt really lucky to be part of it.
September 17, 2024Sep 17 Nobody needs the video for GLB at this stage. She better focus on writing and recording new music next after the tour. New album for summer 2025 maybe?
September 17, 2024Sep 17 I don’t know if there is a rights issue but might as well just make the VMA’s performance the official video
September 20, 2024Sep 20 Pink Pony Club debuts at #21 in the UK this week, becoming Chappell's 4th top 40 hit.
September 20, 2024Sep 20 Nobody needs the video for GLB at this stage. She better focus on writing and recording new music next after the tour. New album for summer 2025 maybe? I think I read somewhere that after she's finished her tour she'll be taking some time off to write over winter 2024/spring 2025 so hopefully! Good Luck Babe seems like a sheer fluke song the more I hear about it, the album art for it wasn't even planned, she just used a photo she had from a Grammy's event or something where she wore the pig nose etc because she was on the road and didn't have time to organise a photoshoot and didn't have any other shots that hadn't been used already :lol:
September 20, 2024Sep 20 New peak of 9 for Hot to Go and Pink Pony Club finally in the charts, YES Personally couldn’t care less about a GLB video but tbh I prefer basically every track on her album to it so that’s probably why 😂
September 21, 2024Sep 21 Great to see hot to go get a single digit peak now and also pink pony club finally charting, she has done so well having 4 top 40 hits this year, shame red wine supernova just narrowly missed on her having 4 top 30 hits.
September 21, 2024Sep 21 Author Pink Pony Club is so much fun! Really glad that is having it’s moment. From the videos I have seen of the tour, that seems like a major highlight!
September 21, 2024Sep 21 So many songs on this album could be huge ! She’s been incredible so far . Really need to catch her live one day
September 21, 2024Sep 21 She's been performing Thursday, Friday and tonight about 2 minutes walk from my house, each time the street has been lined with drag queens and people wearing pink cowboy hats. #LoveIt
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