Chappell Roan admits it’s been a “very unsettling year and a half” due to hectic schedule and LA fires
Chappell Roan has expanded on her recent claim that she is not writing new music anytime soon by lamenting her “very unsettling year and a half.”
Just weeks after releasing her chart-topping new single, ‘The Subway’, alongside an absurdist new music video, Roan was interviewed by Zane Lowe for Apple Music. In the interview, she described her recent experience of displacement.
“I haven’t felt settled,” Roan admitted, “It’s been a very unsettling year and a half, and I think once I really feel calm in a new house and have a routine, I just can’t wait to have a routine,” she said in the interview. “And then I can think about writing a song once I have a routine.”
These extra comments only cement what the ‘Pink Pony Club’ singer said to Vogue earlier this August. Speaking of the follow-up to her debut, she said, “There is no album. There is no collection of songs … It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next.”
Expanding on this to Lowe, she added, “I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out. I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything.”
The stability she desires at least begins with a stable home, she admitted, nodding towards the LA fires that forced her to relocate. “I finally got a new place and I’ve only been there for 10 days. And then I came on this big tour,” she said. “So it’s been a journey on how do I release music within the state of everything?”
After a heavy festival circuit that still continues, she has plenty of shows booked into 2026.“I think that once this is done and the U.S. shows are done, it’ll definitely feel like a big breath of weight off my shoulders just so I can chill for a sec and actually think about writing,” she said. “But we’re almost done with the victory lap. Next April I’ll be done with the victory lap.”
Reacting to this news, Far Out officially deemed half a decade for a follow-up album a considerable, yet manageable, amount of time, writing: “Artists should be afforded all the time in the world that they want. There shouldn’t be pressure or stress to rush art, especially when for someone as young as Roan, life has to be lived in order to be written about.”
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