The Stardew Valley community is a passionate one, and they’ve recently started using the music of Chappell Roan to highlight a queer romance in the game.
Roan has a song titled ‘Good Luck, Babe!‘. It’s about the lost potential of a forgotten romance between the singer and a woman who chose to be with a man rather than confront the difficulty of facing her queer identity. This has resonated with players who opt for the woman character in Stardew Valley and who like to romance Haley.
As noted by Kotaku, which first spotted this trend, Haley is quite distant toward the player character at first. This might be because she’s a stranger, but it also might be because of some feelings bubbling up inside her that she’s not ready to reckon with.
Haley spends a lot of time with another villager, Alex, a man. Stardew Valley players have been making TikToks using lyrics from Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ that focus on identity struggle and regret and Haley’s apparent trouble choosing a female farmer over the much more traditional romantic choice, Alex.
@belsycore just to stop the feeling – I HOPE IM THE FIRST TO THINK OF THIS AHHA #stardewvalley #fanart #wlw
The lyrics in the chorus to ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ go, “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’.”
