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Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesChappell RoanThe road to fame and success hasn’t been without its bumps — including working at a donut shop in Missouri.
After being dropped from her label in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Roan (real name Kayleigh Rose Amstutz) returned to her home state of Missouri. reset. While there, she learned a thing or two about hard work.
“It absolutely had a positive impact on me,” Roan said BBC Radio 1 in an interview published Sunday, Jan. 19, while she was working at a donut shop. “You know what it’s like to clean public toilets. This is very important.”
The singer used that year of experience – which also included heartbreak – as a springboard start your career. (Roan was first signed to the label in 2015, but it wasn’t until nearly a decade later that her debut album hit the airwaves.)
If there was one musician who kept us talking throughout 2024, it was Chappell Roan. Roan is no stranger to the music industry, having signed her first record deal in 2015, but it wasn’t until the release of her debut album in 2023, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, that she began to take the world by storm…)
When Roan returned to Los Angeles, she gave herself one year to make it—and she did.
In 2022, she released four singles, including “Naked in Manhattan”, as a prelude to her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princesswhich fell in September 2023.
Roan’s fame skyrocketed shortly after her record was released thanks to the 2024 single “Good Luck, Babe!”, originally titled “Good Luck, Jane!”
“I wanted it to be about falling in love with my best friend and then she’s like, ‘Ha ha ha, I don’t like you again, I like boys,'” the musician revealed on Sunday. “And it was like, ‘Okay, okay, good luck, Jane.’
Chappell Roan has been candid about overcoming her past mental health issues. “I realized I can’t live like this. I can’t live so depressed or feel so lost that I want to kill myself,” Roan, 26, told Rolling Stone in its cover story published Tuesday, Sept. 10. “I just got myself together.” (…)
Roan, who is an openly queer artist, never he avoided heavy topics or she moved away from being herself. Although it has caused some backlash, the singer is sticking to her guns.
“I actually think I’d be more successful if I had a muzzle,” she said with a laugh.
She noted that her choices to take a break from touring for her mental health and until call the photographers at the 2024 MTV Awards for allegedly yelling insulting remarks at celebrities kept her from succeeding.
Chappell Roan has always said she would quit music if her fame put her or her family at risk – and she’s almost reached her limit. “People started being weird like they follow me and (sic) know where my parents live and like my sister where my sister works, all that weird stuff,” Roan, 26, (…)
“If I had suppressed more of my basic instincts where my heart goes, ‘Stop, stop, stop, you’re not okay,’ I would have been bigger,” Roan claimed. “I’d be a lot bigger… And I’d be on tour right now.” (Roan refused to extend her tour in 2024 to protect her physical and mental health.)
Her inability to silence her own inner voices did not derail Roan received six Grammy Award nominations at the upcoming February ceremony, including Best New Artist. But for her, recognition is not the only thing that matters.
“If I can look back and say, ‘I didn’t collapse under the weight of expectations and I wasn’t worth being abused or blackmailed,’ (then) at least I stayed true to my heartRoan concluded.
