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Chappell Roan answers some questions for TIME before embarking on the GUTS World Tour with Olivia Rodrigo._  by [Moises Mendez](https://time.com/author/moises-mendez-ii/)  ## Moises Mendez Jun 14, 2024 8:51 PM UTC Chappell Roan answers some questions for TIME before embarking on the GUTS World Tour with Olivia Rodrigo.  by [Moises Mendez](https://time.com/author/moises-mendez-ii/)  ## Moises Mendez Jun 14, 2024 8:51 PM UTC Nine months after the release of her debut album, [_The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess_](https://time.com/6309530/best-music-fall-2023/), [Chappell Roan](https://time.com/6836626/chappell-roan-interview-guts-tour-olivia-rodrigo/) is seeing the kind of success new artists dream about. On Thursday, her album hit No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart—beating out [Taylor Swift](https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/) and Billie Eilish. In the last few months, her monthly listeners have grown to more than 20 million on Spotify, and she's [drawn crowds of thousands](https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/10/gov-ball-chappell-roan-killers-sza) at festivals like Boston Calling and Gov Ball in New York City (where she arrived dressed as the Statue of Liberty). > [](https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1799958739149328825) While her meteoric rise seems like it happened overnight, Roan has been working for almost a decade, releasing her music online and utilizing social media to gain a cult following. After starting out by sharing songs on YouTube in 2014 under her given first and middle names, Kayleigh Rose, she rebranded to Chappell Roan and released an EP through Atlantic Records in 2017\. Though Roan released multiple songs in 2020 that would later appear on her debutalbum, those singles did not achieve the success Atlantic had hoped for, and the label dropped her that year. In September 2023, she released _The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess_with Amusement Records—producer Dan Nigro’s label under Island Records—to widespread acclaim. _Midwest Princess_ made multiple best-of-the-year lists, including [TIME’s](https://time.com/6340131/best-albums-2023/) in 2023\. Following a solo tour in support of the album, Roan found a new audience after opening for Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS World Tour in early 2024\. In April, Roan made her [Coachella debut](https://time.com/6967112/coachella-surprise-guests/), and since then, has skyrocketed to fame. Audiences are falling in love with the 26-year-old star for many reasons. Her incredibly catchy yet honest songs speak to listeners, as does her sincerity online and with her fans. Here’s everything to know about the rise of Chappell Roan. > [](https://twitter.com/glusong/status/1800028085078954142) ## **She goes there in her music** Chappell’s music is all about queer experiences, from messy moments of heartbreak to ecstatic discoveries of love and sex. Her witty lyrics and infectious melodies bring listeners along on journeys through [situationships](https://time.com/6263743/situationships-dating-benefits/), passionate affairs, breakups, and even the satisfaction of seeing an ex get what they deserve. In “Pink Pony Club,” one of the singles she released in 2020, the narrator yearns to leave their home in Tennessee and go to a “special place where boys and girls can be queens every single day” and in [“Red Wine Supernova”](https://time.com/6309530/best-music-fall-2023/) she sings about the rush of falling too fast for a "Brigitte Bardot" type. Her latest, “Good Luck, Babe!” has a sharp message for a woman who chooses men over her: “When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night, with your head in your hands, you're nothing more than his wife. And when you think about me, all of those years ago, you’re standing face to face with ‘I told you so.’” “This is such an exciting time in queer music, but pop music in general,” she [told TIME](https://time.com/6836626/chappell-roan-interview-guts-tour-olivia-rodrigo/) earlier this year. “I think people are getting a little bit more risky and that’s always when great pop music is born. No fear of looking raunchy, or that you’re gonna make people upset.” ## **She gained millions of fans within a few months** A chart created by a data journalist and shared online traces how Chappell’s monthly listeners on Spotify have grown quickly since she released her album in September. In March 2023, she had about 3 million monthly listeners. Just a little more than a year later, she has more than 20 million each month. > [](https://twitter.com/nickicamberg/status/1785025293901762725) The stark increase in her fandom can be seen in the crowds at her most recent performances. At Gov Ball earlier this month, Roan revealed that she turned down an opportunity to perform at the White House. “In response to the White House who asked me to perform for Pride: we want liberty, justice and freedom for all. When you do that, that’s when I’ll come.” > [](https://twitter.com/concertleaks/status/1799933130218090994) It’s not just the fans who have noticed the positive responses from audiences: in recent days, programmers for the Bonnaroo music festival [moved her to the main stage for her performance](https://x.com/PopCrave/status/1801147348640477581), and the All Things Go music festival [announced she will be performing](https://x.com/moominmartha/status/1800588204128571877) on its New York stop. ## **Chappell Roan’s vulnerability online and with fans** Roan's social media footprint dates back a couple of years. On TikTok, she used to promote her music with occasional makeup tutorials for some of her more dramatic looks set to one of her singles. Roan is also honest about her struggles with mental health. At her most recent performance in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 12, she got emotional about her rapid rise to fame and shared how overwhelming the experience has been. She took a second to address the crowd as she wiped away tears. “I just want to be honest with the crowd. I feel a little off today, because I think my career is going really fast and it’s hard to keep up,” she says in the video. “I’m just being honest, I’m having a hard time today.” > [](https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1801110505802678312) Last year, she uploaded a video where she revealed that she was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 disorder and struggling with body image issues, which were heightened as she started to gain popularity. > [](https://twitter.com/jess9112/status/1801123400464675019) “Everything is very exciting right now and I’m realizing that success actually makes me quite uncomfortable and self-conscious and I’m not sure why yet,” she says in the video. “This career is f-cking hard, but I’ll be fine.” ## Transcript [00:00] I wish so desperately I would have [00:02] Ben I just would have been on the internet more. [00:14] This is how to make lighting time in a music button music in general. [00:21] Like I think people are just getting a little bit more risky [00:25] with pops. And that's always when great music is. [00:29] Born no fear of I'm looking raunchy or looking which are going [00:35] to make people upset. [00:39] How to make a queer community help you really ever been worried about [00:43] the straight and thanks a lot. [00:45] I feel like we're just making music like on a Bosch of the game. [00:49] I love Troy cell phone and Renee Rapp is so sweet to me. [00:53] I saw her at a Grammy party and no one has ever squeeze my [00:56] hand when I met me but I was just like oh my God. [01:00] Thank you for Lifting me up. [01:07] Of course, I'm going to come just came out with soap Hop Miami [01:10] music I've ever heard. [01:13] I love it all five of my top songs of 1001. [01:28] Immediately after I had to get all that energy out of my head [01:31] is shaved my eyebrows off. [01:32] I was just something I was like he has such a way for [01:41] every queer person and art and he is like sacrificed a lot for [01:45] us to pick up something really sweet. [01:46] I was like LA Times says you are for the most [01:52] exciting up-and-coming queer artists and that's what they said [01:55] about me and we have that in common. [02:02] Coronavirus 15/16 of the perfect time to be a teenager on YouTube [02:07] because everything was happening Harlem Shake High School [02:11] lip-dubs. What does the fox say mouth for 3 hours and then like [02:16] the beauty Community basistega, stay down there or not, [02:18] and then whenever like the Empire started to crumble it was just [02:21] like the best thing to wake up to like every President [02:26] Arthur cellar. [02:30] Mom won't let me get on Club Penguin because you could chat [02:33] but I want Webster chatting motion monsters don't know anyone [02:37] else was on that barbie.com. [02:39] We were all got bullied. [02:43] Call lesbians. They were wrong, but I wasn't ready to hear that. [02:49] I've two regrets one not taking my full ride scholarship [02:53] to an art high school instead. [02:55] I decided to stay at a high school to not push myself test how [03:01] devastating have no idea until I was Nineteen. [03:05] I don't have an Urban Outfitters where I live what the fuck [03:08] with American Apparel couldn't tell you even like rookie mad. [03:11] Like I just I wish so desperately I would have I just would have [03:15] been on the internet more thing. [03:17] I ended up smoking cigarettes and listening to Lana Del Rey on [03:21] my porch. Anyway, so like it would have happened regardless, [03:23] but like [03:26] I just found out and such a lame way. [03:33] There's a lot of value and the culture and fashion and music [03:37] that may be a lot of like. [03:41] The Fashion World, we're not I really love the Midwest in the [03:47] fashion of gas stations and I was born in a trailer park and [03:51] I think I could not get it if you're not. [03:55] From there, even the teeny tiny tiny towns, [04:02] like they're gay people everywhere. [04:04] I think that's what I realize doing small towns. [04:08] Like there are queens and every town those girls feel the same [04:12] type of passion for like weirdest drag as like Chicago, [04:17] you know like, New York. [04:20] I think people just [04:22] I think everyone in the midwest agrees with like a far-right [04:27] Viewpoint if it's not true. [04:34] I go to her for things like how you handle all the pressure [04:38] people online cuz she has it like way crazier than I do. [04:41] She has handles her career with grace, [04:44] even though her career doesn't always handle her with great. [04:47] She gets me really great advice about how no one has it figured [04:52] out every single person. 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