Chappell Roan
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Can I Boom Boom? February 28, 2025
In December, the trend forecaster Sean Monahan — best known for his role in putting the term normcore on the map in 2013 and for predicting the vibe shift of 2022 — announced the arrival of a new aesthetic: He called it boom boom. While the vibe shif...
Chappell Roan: The Rise of a Midwest Princess October 03, 2024
The cultural highlight of 2024 has been the ascent of Chappell Roan to stratospheric popularity, with her campy drag queen aesthetic, high-energy performances, and string of exuberant hits celebrating queer love and unselfconscious fun and hedonism f...
Chappell Roan Got Too Famous Too Fast October 02, 2024
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 inappropr...
Chappell Roan and the Problem With Fandom September 25, 2024
Having devoted fans can be a terrifying and fraught thing for a public figure to experience — and increasingly, the celebs are telling us about it. The latest round of toxic fandom discourse arguably started with Chappell Roan, who made headlines in ...
Chappell Roan’s Fame Is a Drag September 20, 2024
“I feel like fame is just abusive,” Chappell Roan admits in a recent interview. “The vibe of this — stalking, talking shit online, [people who] won’t leave you alone, yelling at you in public — is the vibe of an abusive ex-husband. That’s what it fee...
This Pop Star Is a Fitting Icon for Generation Z September 17, 2024
To make it as a pop star in the age of TikTok, you need a few tricks up your sleeve.Firstly, you need to have an ambiguous gender. Think Sam Smith. He revitalized his career after a lull by putting on a pair of chaps and calling himself a “they/them....
Can a Woman Be a Drag Queen? September 13, 2024
Chappell Roan is suddenly famous. Since her breakout song came out earlier this year, the pop star has been called the next big queer pop icon, the new Lady Gaga, and Gen Z’s Madonna. Her costumes are elaborate, her music is danceable, her lyrics are...
Chappell Roan Is a Pop Supernova September 11, 2024
Her joyful pop anthems have connected with a massive audience, but getting here involved long odds and a lot of heartache. And fame is freaking her out a bit....
The Chappell Roan Formula for Success August 16, 2024
Back in December, when Switched on Pop first interviewed Chappell Roan, she was averaging 2 to 3 million streams per week as her 2023 album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess, continued its slow burn. Since then, things are … different: That...
What’s 2024’s “Song of the Summer”? August 01, 2024
A few weekends ago, I had the distinct pleasure of introducing my friends’ parents to Chappell Roan.It started when I had a few bars of “Good Luck, Babe” stuck in my head and couldn’t stop humming it. The next thing I knew, we were all learning the “...
