Chappell Roan has given fans an update on the follow-up album to her critically acclaimed debut ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess‘.
While conducting a recent TikTok Live, the Grammy Award-winning artist responded to a fan’s question about the whereabouts of her second album. “New album? Great question. We’re so beyond… so beyond far away from that, I could not even tell you,” she told the viewers.
During the Live, Roan also addressed questions about her unreleased track ‘Subway’ – which she debuted at Governors Ball last year in New York. “‘Can we expect ‘The Subway’ anytime soon?’ Guys, I just came out with a song an hour ago, let’s just take it slow for a moment,” she replied, referring to the release of her latest single ‘The Giver‘.
chappell roan on when her next album is coming out:
“we’re so beyond, so beyond far away from that, i could not even tell you” pic.twitter.com/QzYpmljDFz
— chappell roan daily (@dailyroan) March 14, 2025
chappell roan responds to fans asking for ‘the subway’:
“i just came out with this song an hour ago, let’s just take it slow for a moment” pic.twitter.com/FEKrexclaq
— chappell roan daily (@dailyroan) March 14, 2025
Released last Friday (March 14), ‘The Giver’ marked the former NME Cover star’s first new music out since the hugely successful one-off single ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ last year. She had been steadily teasing the song for some time now, and debuted the song during her appearance on Saturday Night Live last November.
On the show, she told the audience: “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right. Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right,” prompting fans to dub the track a “lesbian anthem”.
Speaking about her decision to lean towards a more country sound in a press release, Roan shared: “Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is.. right now I’m just making songs that make me feel happy and fun and ‘The Giver’ is my take on cuntry xoxo may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for y’all.”
Recently, Roan reflected on her mixed experiences with “country boys” at school in an interview with Apple Music Country’s Kelleigh Bannen. “I’m about to say something so controversial, but do you know who has treated me the best and the worst? Country boys,” she told Bannen.
She continued: “They treated me the nicest and they’ve also treated me the worst because – this is in high school – and that’s what I grew up around. Those are the boys I grew up around and that’s how I learned to stand up for myself, because you’re not going to look at me and be like, ‘Shh, shh, shh.’
She said time spent with them was how she learned “that I am never going to have this done to me ever again”, and was “never going to have someone put their hand up and say, ‘Stop talking.’”
In a four-star review of ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, NME wrote: “These sharp pop moments shine brighter than some of the weaker ballads that pad out the lengthy tracklist. Yet ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’ is a display of Roan’s bold and brazen pen, where she places searing revelations alongside some deliciously cheeky choruses.”
In other news, Roan recently performed a duet of ‘Pink Pony Club’ with Elton John at his Oscars viewing party.
She also recently dedicated her BRIT Award win “to trans artists, to drag queens, to fashion students, sex workers, and Sinead O’Connor,” and prior to that made headlines after using her Best New Artist speech at the 67th Grammy Awards to take aim at record labels and share her past experience as a struggling new artist.
Her rapid ascent to stardom has so far seen her land a UK Number One album in August, win the Best New Artist prize at the MTV VMAs the following month, and later earn six nominations at the Grammys 2025. She has also been announced as a headliner of next year’s Reading & Leeds and Primavera Sound, and this month she was crowned the winner of BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of 2025.
Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe’ was also named as NME’s best song of 2024. “With ‘Good Luck, Babe!’, Roan set out to write a ‘big anthemic pop song’. It was an unqualified success: over subtly insistent synth-pop, Roan serves up home truths to someone desperately trying to deny their queerness,” the entry read.