On September 28, the summer of Chappell Roan began its inevitable turn to fall. In a “Weekend Update” segment on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang appeared as Moo Deng in a bit comparing the viral hippo’s plight to Roan’s own complaints about inappropriate fan behavior, cementing it as A Definite Thing. (In response to fan outcry about “a gay cishet man [sic] making fun of a queer woman,” Yang declared that the sketch was made with love.) The segment capped off a turbulent week for Roan, in which the singer’s comments about the presidential election set off yet another round of social-media backlash, prompting her to pull out of two planned performances at the All Things Go Festival. “Things have gotten overwhelming over the past few weeks and I am really feeling it,” she wrote on Instagram.
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