Loudly queer, delightfully raunchy and a blast to see live, Chappell Roan charted an unlikely path to stardom. Fans, bookers, her producer and more explain how it happened.
Loudly queer, delightfully raunchy and a blast to see live, the singer charted an unlikely path to pop stardom. Fans, bookers, her producer and more explain how it happened.). Not the lyrics, witty and raunchy , coy when not vulgar , frequently unprintable in a family newspaper. Not that she refers to herself as aWell, maybe some of those things.
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Among those into it: NPR music writer and Tiny Desk Concert co-creator Stephen Thompson, who first listened to Roan in 2022, when a colleague recommended the early single “.” He fell in love with the track — a song about struggling through an unrequited situationship that Thompson calls a “perfect cocktail of … lustful yet bored.” When he heard all of “Midwest Princess,” he knew he had to book Roan for a Tiny Desk Concert.
“I was sitting there watching her Tiny Desk thinking, ‘People are going to absolutely love this,’” he says. “I felt like this was going to thrill her fans. The people who love her are going to point at this and say, ‘See!’” “If you’re there for Olivia Rodrigo and you got there early, you’re seeing someone who is very similar, and she’s a great performer,” Lieb says. “And performance is really what converts people with her. … Seeing her makes you want to know more about her.”24.7 million U.S. weekly streams, week ending April 11
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