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Perth Now
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Chappell Roan recalls early struggles before she found fame: 'I was in hell for a very long time...'
Chappell Roan was "in hell for a very long time" before she found fame. The 27-year-old pop star has had major success with hits like 'Good Luck, Babe!' and 'Pink Pony Club' amongst a host of others but recalled that just before her career took off, she had to endure a number of menial jobs, but always knew she was a "really good" performer, so found the drive to succeed. She told W Magazine: "Whenever I was working at my part-time jobs, like nannying or the drive-through or doughnut shop, I kept hope alive because I knew I was really good. I knew I had to just give it one more year. And I got that courage by, honestly, just being in hell for a very long time. I was like, this sucks so bad, but keep going. Every day I would think, Keep going, even if there was no sight of any light at the end of the tunnel. Zero! "But I was like, what if it's just around the corner? What if I stopped the day before that something is meant to happen? So I just kept going, and here we are." The Grammy Award-winning star - whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz - tried to find success through television talent shows when she was a teenager but recalled at one of her auditions, she couldn't even get a producer to pay the slightest bit of interest in her. She said: "When I auditioned for 'The Voice', I was 15 and I sang 'Stay,' by Rihanna. That was when the Bruno Mars song 'When I Was Your Man' was really big, and I thought I was so unique in switching it around and singing 'When you were my man' and making it about gender. But every girl was like, 'I'm switching it around.' By the way, when I did the 'Voice' audition, the producer or whoever the f*** was watching did not even look up from his phone. "He was like, 'Okay, next.' And I went up there and sang a cappella, the scariest thing ever. He never really looked at me. With 'America's Got Talent', I was 13, and we flew to Austin, Texas, and waited in line with thousands of people at 4 a.m. I sang 'True Colors,' by Cyndi Lauper. Did not make it either.
The Guardian
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Chappell Roan: The Giver review – saddle up, there's a new sheriff in town
It's easy to forget that in the year that Chappell Roan became one of the world's biggest pop stars, she only released one single. Good Luck, Babe! came out in April 2024, precipitating the explosion of the US pop star as a live phenomenon who made pop hyper fun and queer again, while also remaining strikingly principled about how far she was willing to go for her art. When streaming demands that pop stars pebbledash releases in order to stay buoyant on playlists, her disinclination to capitalise on Good Luck, Babe!'s success with more material is reflective of Roan's confidence in her way of doing things, whether persisting with a vision that her previous label rejected – and being totally vindicated for it – or using her recent Grammys win to call for labels to provide musicians with proper healthcare. The tactic has paid off: in the absence of new songs, Pink Pony Club – the song Atlantic dropped her over – reached UK No 1 last week, almost five years after its original release. Her debut album, 2023's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, has been in the UK Top 10 since June, taking two separate weeks at No 1. You wonder if releasing a new song almost risks disturbing that reign. Roan has been teasing two new tracks live for a while – lovelorn ballad Subway and The Giver, a gay-as-hell country song debuted when she performed on Saturday Night Live in November. Now officially released, the latter is a rowdy deviation from Roan's regular pure-pop melodrama, full of whoops and giddy fiddle solos reminiscent of the (Dixie) Chicks' massive 90s hits. Roan schemes, once more, about how she's gonna get the girl: not quite as delirious as Hot to Go! or Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl, but still riotous good fun. A cynic might suggest that going country really is a risk-averse move: everyone from Beyoncé to Dumfries-born Calvin Harris has done it recently, nakedly lunging for a bite at Nashville's commercial dominance. (So dominant that the sound has even penetrated the historically country-averse UK.) But Roan grew up in Missouri surrounded by country music, and she took the Roan part of her stage name from her late grandfather's favourite western song, The Strawberry Roan. 'I can't call myself the midwest princess and not acknowledge country music straight up,' she said recently. Plus, she added: 'I just think a lesbian country song is really funny, so I wrote that.' Roan felt encouraged to lean into her outre persona after witnessing a transformative drag show at a Hollywood gay bar, and she considers herself a drag act: no one is better placed to skewer and celebrate the high-camp inherent in country, which runs on equally hammed-up performances of gender and so-called authenticity. In the promotional imagery for the single, she's dressed in the attire of various working-class professions. 'I get the job done,' she sings in a chorus made for country-booted twirling, the job in hand being satisfying a woman better than 'no country boy quitter' ever could. In one satisfied wink, she punctures fantasies of masculine primacy, as well as skewering how political charlatans exploit blue-collar folksiness for personal gain. She offers up much a better fantasy: 'How I look is how I touch,' a fairly ecstatic notion to conjure with given Roan's usual wild, rococo costuming: no haphazard lick and a promise here.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The 19 Best- and Worst-Dressed Celebs at the 2025 Grammys
It's Grammys night! Officially the biggest night in music! And this year, your favorite musical stars hit the red carpet in looks ranging from chic to eye-popping. In other words, they wore exactly the kind of looks we've come to expect any time musical performers gather to give each other trophies. But if there was one overriding theme for the night, it was a surprising infusion of high, old-school glamour and an unexpected sense of elegance and the 'Good Luck, Babe!' and Best New Artist nominee to take ballet core to drag levels. The dress, from Gaultier's 2003 Couture collection and adorned with Degas' classic ballerinas, gives exactly the kind of high-drama romanticism that suits her best, but it's the flawless beat that really makes the look entirely her own. It's drag, it's art, it's purely Chappell Roan. READ MORE ABOUT CHAPPELL'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe 'Fortnight' singer and Album of the Year nominee sauntered confidently onto the red carpet delivering straight-up, old-school, uncomplicated glamour and legs for days. There's nothing about this dress that we haven't seen a million times before, but that's not stopping her from looking like a million bucks in it. We wouldn't normally support the idea of matching the dress to the lips to the accessories, but we can't blame a girl for sporting her man's team color as he heads to the Super Bowl. READ MORE ABOUT TAYLOR'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREWe love these two for always reminding us that the red carpet is as much or more of a branding exercise as it is a fashion one. In other words, attention is the name of the game and these two are masters of it. Why is he wearing Wednesday Addams' dollhouse on his head? Why is she wearing a bathing suit with an overcoat like she ran out of a hotel room on fire? Well, you're looking at them, aren't you? That's why. READ MORE ABOUT JADEN'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe Best Musical Theater Album nominee stunned in this extravagantly chic, borderline over-the-top design that speaks of royal raiment as much as it does red carpet glamour. The simple design of the dress allows the highly detailed corset and headpiece to really shine, and she has the kind of bearing to not let any of it overwhelm her. Just a jaw-droppingly perfect marriage of design and 'II Most Wanted' singer has long been one of the best at working retro '70s glam, and this leather Saint Laurent is giving us visions of Cher in Bob Mackie, as it was surely intended to do. It's not a fresh look, but it's breezily uncomplicated and we like how low-key the styling is. READ MORE ABOUT MILEY'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe 'Birds of a Feather' singer and Record of the Year nominee took her singular style in a crisp new direction while remaining true to herself and her preferences. It's got a '90s minimalism that appeals to us, but we really hate the random strings, as well as that bizarre white panel on the back that's giving 'Kick Me' sign. READ MORE ABOUT BILLIE'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe 'Espresso' singer and Record of the Year nominee is the current reigning queen of cutesy-poo hot good-girl style. She has a knack for working looks that could look like jokes on a different wearer, but the thing is, your girl is always in on the joke. Everything she wears comes with a wink implied and this confection of a gown—which is impressively unwrinkled—is no different. She looks adorably hot, if that makes any sense. READ MORE ABOUT SABRINA'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREWe feel if there's any one celebrity who could make a semi-sheer, super-shiny lavender suit work for them it would be Troye Sivan. Turns out? He can't! Not even a little bit! Looking at this, we're coming to the conclusion that no one can. The 'Got Me Started' singer and Best Dance Pop Recording nominee looks like a rumpled laundry pile and oddly, the pieces he's sporting don't 'Nissan Altima' singer and Best Rap Album nominee looked like she loved her Thom Browne dress, and to be fair, the severe style really suits her, but as much as we love the starkness of the design and the playfulness of the exaggerated hips, that white oxford shirt and prep school tie just isn't working with the rest of it. READ MORE ABOUT DOECHII'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREWe were all set to make a crack about how mad she must have been when she saw Miley Cyrus wearing a similar dress, but the longer we looked at this, the more we realized the 'Can't Catch Me Now' singer and Best Song Written for Visual Media nominee looks so good in this slinky vintage Versace that she doesn't need to worry about being compared to anyone. We like how simple the style is and how much of a high impact it delivers. READ MORE ABOUT OLIVIA'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREMother Monster has arrived and she's wearing Elphaba's dress. Not that the 'Die With a Smile' and Song of the Year nominee could ever be accused of being unoriginal. This gown is intricately detailed, incredibly dramatic, and beautifully styled, from the blunt bangs to the boots to that drop-dead stunning Tiffany necklace. It's as classic a goth glam look as you'll find anywhere, but it has a high-fashion chicness to it that only Gaga could make happen. READ MORE ABOUT LADY GAGA'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe Best Country Song nominee for 'The Architect' sported a style that should have worked better for her. We like the idea of country artists working hi-lo glam and we think she's particularly well-suited to it, but we'd have rather seen that gorgeous Ralph Lauren skirt paired with a plain t-shirt than that yoga-looking tank top. The 'lo' just isn't low enough to make the 'hi' part sing. READ MORE ABOUT KACEY'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREIt's impossible to look at this outrageously romantic Chanel dress and not read it as bridal, which is a style that always looks jarring in a red carpet setting, but the 'Us' singer and Best Pop Duo Performance nominee was so clearly pleased with it that she kind of charmed us into loving it. Not all of it, mind you. Those bows can go. READ MORE ABOUT GRACIE'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe 'Beautiful Things' singer and Best New Artist nominee could not be better suited to the kind of hot swag this somewhat basic Dolce & Gabbana disco suit requires. While we'd have liked seeing it rendered in a more exciting color, there's something to be said for keeping the look toned-down so it doesn't veer into tacky. He looks '360' singer and Album of the Year nominee brought a hard-edged romantic glamour to the red carpet with this fluffy piece of dryer lint. No, really. The drab gray color of this gown is what makes it work so well for her. If it had been rendered in pink—or worse, Brat green–it would have looked chintzy. But the muted shade along with the kick-ass boots lend it a touch, no-frills chicness. READ MORE ABOUT CHARLI'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREWe're not entirely sure why, but we really dislike the combination of short, heavily beaded black dress with an oversized white coat. Something about the pairing just looks tacky to our eyes. Or maybe it's the dress itself that bugs. The beading comes off too stiff and armor-like. READ MORE ABOUT KELSEA'S GRAMMYS LOOK HERELady, you had us until we got to the socks. The 'Broken Man' singer and Best Rock Performance nominee looked classically chic to us at first glance. After all, how can you go wrong with a tuxedo jacket and a pair of transparent tights? We'll tell you how: by adding white socks to the equation. We thought the gloves were a little goofy, and we were willing to go with it, but the knee-highs are an absolute no for pure feral glam with a drop-dead sexiness to it. Marilyn Monroe herself couldn't have done it any better. The 'Enough' singer and Best Rap Performance nominee has a long history of serving up jaw-dropping high glamour on any red carpet, but this look may be her best one ever. The makeup is flawless, the manicure is giving feline, and the feathers are an unexpected bit of fun. READ MORE ABOUT CARDI B'S GRAMMYS LOOK HEREThe Wicked star and Best Actress Oscar nominee ditched the Elphaba-themed looks she's been sporting most of the year and instead went for more of a sleek, space queen sort of vibe. We're not entirely convinced the metallic panel works with that plunging neckline, but the drama of the design is appealing and it really suits her. The jewelry is really well-chosen and the relative minimalism of the design lets her manicure really shine. READ MORE ABOUT CYNTHIA'S GRAMMYS LOOK HERE You Might Also Like Here's What NOT to Wear to a Wedding Meet the Laziest, Easiest Acne Routine You'll Ever Try
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Masked Singer fans convinced Pufferfish is a former judge as they 'uncover' major clues
fans believe they have cracked the mystery of Pufferfish's identity. Many are now convinced that a former judge is hiding behind the elaborate costume. The latest series of the ITV show has kept audiences guessing, with Pufferfish impressing with powerful performances. But viewers are now speculating that the celebrity behind the mask could be none other than former panellist Rita Ora. Rita, 33, was part of The Masked Singer judging panel from its launch in 2020 until 2024, when she was replaced by Maya Jama. However, some fans believe her absence from the panel is due to her being a contestant instead. A Reddit user shared their theory, arguing that several clues point to Rita. "I think Pufferfish is Samantha Barks, but it could be Rita Ora as these clues do match," they wrote. The fan broke down their reasoning into three key hints. They highlighted the dice showing 5 and 6 (which add up to 11). Rita first appeared as a judge on the US version of the show in season 11. They also noted the reference to a "five-year work diary". Rita was a judge on the UK version for five series before leaving – possibly because she is now competing. Finally, a spider was referenced during Pufferfish's performance. Rita duetted with Iggy Azalea on the song Black Widow. The post has sparked plenty of discussion, with many fans agreeing that the clues fit. One viewer commented: "I bet it's Rita! The clues about her time as a judge really make sense." Another added: "I did wonder if she might be on it because they've been quiet about her exit." While many are convinced Pufferfish is Rita, others have suggested different names. Mabel, known for hits like Don't Call Me Up, has been put forward as a strong possibility. Some have even floated the idea of Katy Perry, although this seems unlikely. One viewer said: "Pufferfish has the nicest voice – I honestly have no clue who it is, but I love them." Another added: "I can't wait to find out. The performances have been amazing!" Pufferfish has delivered three standout performances since the competition began earlier this month. So far, the contestant has tackled songs such as 'Good Luck, Babe!' by Chappell Roan, 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' by Cyndi Lauper and 'Lose Control' by Teddy Swims. The vocal range and stage presence have left many convinced that the person behind the mask is a professional singer. With the competition heating up, it remains to be seen when Pufferfish will be unmasked. If the fan theories are correct, it would be a major twist for the show. Until then, viewers will continue to analyse every clue in the hope of figuring it out before the big reveal.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Chappell Roan opens up on 'scary and confusing' year
Chappell Roan has had a "scary and spiritual and confusing" time this past year. The 26-year-old singer took to social media just days ahead of finding out whether she has won a Grammy for her hit single 'Good Luck, Babe!' or her chart-topping album 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess', she has reflected on her immense success. On Wednesday (29.01.25), she wrote on Instagram: "Hey girls I just woke up. Good morning booboos. It's Grammy week. I am very emo. My heart feels warm and fuzzy with all the support I have been given this past year. I hope you can understand that this has been incredible and scary and spiritual and confusing. I've been crying tears of joy and grief and feeling loved and lonely and free. Ultimately, I am grateful for every one of you who gave my music a little spin and showed your a** up to shows and festivals." The 'Pink Pony Club' hitmaker added that she is feeling good about the performance she has prepared for the award ceremony and admitted that she always feels a certain "love" towards her fans whenever she is up on stage. "Because yall are rockstars I feel like a rockstars :) Damn I am cheesy lowkey. Whatever anyway; I love the performance we're preparing for you all . And girl no matter what, just know when I'm up on stage, all I'm really feeling in my heart is love to the queer community especially those in places where it is unsafe to be yourself. I see you 3 tootles xox" Amid her whirlwind year, Chappell - whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz - has suffered from severe depression due to the pressures of fame and has been praised for setting boundaries with her fans after some "weird" behaviour left her feeling "unsafe". She wrote on Instagram last year: "I want to love my life, be outside, giggle with my friends, go to the movie theater, feel safe, and do all the things every single person deserves to do. "Please stop touching me. Please stop being weird to my family and friends. Please stop assuming things about me. There is always more to the story. l am scared and tired. "And please—don't call me Kayleigh. I feel more love than I ever have in my life. I feel the most unsafe I have ever felt in my life. "There is a part of myself that I save just for my project and all of you. There is a part of myself that is just for me, and I don't want that taken away from me. (sic)'
