Dont expect a Good Luck, Babe!
Do you know how hard it is to do a music video when youre this exhausted and burnt?
Like everything else in her career, Roan let her own instinct be a guide.
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Its a hit without a video, she said, repeating what she told her team.
I have a Top 10 hit with a lyric video.
She goes on to point out that success is never linear.
What has worked for past hits wont always work for future ones.
Isnt that crazy that you dont need everything you thought you needed to have millions of TikTok and Instagram?
I didnt have that when it first all started kind of blowing up, and I didnt have video.
I didnt have a trend.
I stood my ground and I said Im not going to take every social opportunity.
Im not going to take every brand deal.
Shes become well-versed in the music industrys double standards.
Roan is embodying a drag persona as a pop star.
That means she sees a very huge difference between who she is on and off stage.
Chappell Roan, in parentheses, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz.
I was in the same article as Shaboozey, and they didnt sayShaboozeysreal name.
I notice it every time.
Such an insane double standard that Im just realizing more and more as I get more successful and older.
People only care about you just being really hot.
Her concert themes may not last forever.
She encourages the audience to dress up accordingly.
Its important for people to know, Oh my God, there are queens in my town.
I had no idea.
Festivals have allowed her to explore the potential of her drag persona.
Before her career blew up, Roan used to make her video and stage outfits from scratch.
Now, she and her team spend months whipping up the extravagant costumes for the stage.
And many of these looks have been in the works since before she even saw her numbers explode.
No brand is making me a hot pink, glitter, latex wrestling suit.
Everything has to be custom and it just takes a long time.
For Lolla, we had planned it when I was on the Olivia tour, so February, March.
Shes been enjoying the way people have been looking forward to her looks with each show.
Youre always excited to see what a drag queen wears.
Its like, What is she going to wear tonight?
She could be anything.
Why are you doing this if youre just going to take it so seriously?
Its hard to find a band.
My whole life is just like me, me, me and it just feels so selfish.
It feels so delusional.
I like giving back to a community.
Sasha Colby dubbed Roan an official member of the Colby drag family.
It just made me feel really important and good about myself.
