Chappell Roan has revealed that she has “no concept” what her subsequent album will sound like.
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Followers have been clamouring for the pop star and former NME Cowl star‘s sophomore album ever for the reason that launch of 2023’s hit debut ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’. Chatting with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, the musician has now shared that the follow-up isn’t wherever close to the place followers may need it to be.
Talking on her three singles since ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, Roan stated: “They’re all type of so totally different. In order that’s why I’m identical to, ‘I don’t know what the following period is.’ That’s the scary a part of placing out new music after which individuals not liking it, as a result of it’s not just like the music you made earlier than.”
Nonetheless, she did allude to “‘The Subway’ being a really protected segue” to what the following document may sound like.
She additionally shared that she hasn’t felt snug sufficient to put in writing the upcoming album as she’s had such a busy schedule: “I haven’t felt settled. It’s been a really unsettling 12 months and a half, and I believe as soon as I actually really feel calm in a brand new home and have a routine, I simply can’t wait to have a routine. After which I can take into consideration writing a music as soon as I’ve a routine.”
“I lastly bought a brand new place and I’ve solely been there for 10 days. After which I got here on this large tour,” she continued, occurring so as to add that she’s additionally needed to take care of the fallout of the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this 12 months. “So it’s been a journey on how do I launch music inside the state of every little thing?”
She additionally shared that she’s wanting ahead to having a break someday in April subsequent 12 months earlier than she will even take into consideration writing new music: “I believe that when that is performed and the US exhibits are performed, it’ll positively really feel like a giant breath of weight off my shoulders simply so I can chill for a sec and really take into consideration writing. However we’re nearly performed with the victory lap. Subsequent April I’ll be performed with the victory lap.”
Final week, Chappell Roan opened up in regards to the hopes for a brand new album, the place she clarified that the follow-up to ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’ should be some time off but. “The second undertaking doesn’t exist but,” she stated. “There isn’t any album. There isn’t any assortment of songs.”
Evaluating it to the method for ‘The Rise And Fall…”, Roan added: “It took me 5 years to put in writing the primary one, and it’s in all probability going to take at the least 5 to put in writing the following. I’m not that sort of author that may pump it out.”
Again in March, Roan stated that she was “so past distant from” her second album, including that she “couldn’t even inform you” when it could come out.
She adopted up her debut album in 2024 with the hit music ‘Good Luck, Babe!’, and later with the “full ass nation music” ‘The Giver’. Her newest standalone observe arrived earlier this month within the type of the extremely anticipated single ‘The Subway’.
The previous NME Cowl star is because of headline Studying & Leeds 2025 this month. These exhibits will likely be held on August 22 and 23 respectively, and see her high this 12 months’s invoice alongside Travis Scott, Carry Me The Horizon and Hozier.
After Studying & Leeds, she’ll play two exhibits for the Summer season Periods live performance collection on the Royal Highlands Showgrounds in Edinburgh, and seem at Electrical Picnic in Eire. Go to right here for tickets.
