With the “Midwest Princess” still being on the rise, and no end to that ascent being anywhere in sight, the story behind Chappell Roan’s star-making debut album got a deeper dive in downtown L.A. Thursday night.
For 66 minutes, in front of about 200 fans, celebrity moderator Brandi Carlile put questions to Roan and her co-writer/producer, Dan Nigro, turning the Grammy Museum into the Pink Pony Classroom. Subjects raised with Roan and Nigro, just hours before they picked up a slew of Grammy nominations, included why the “Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” album took five years to come together, what flipped the switch to create the Chappell Roan persona the public knows and loves midway through that process, and what her second album might be like. Spoiler alert: the singer and producer were not giving any spoilers away about Album No.
2. (“We’re still in the very early stages of making a record, so it’s hard to say what’s different,” said Nigro.) But nothing about the first one was off-limits, including some of the relationship difficulties that ended up being explored in song, as the trio plummed the depths of what already has come to feel like a classic pop record.
“I’m not taking it lightly at all to note that there are so many fans of Chappell Roan that would love to get the chance to sit here and ask her anything that they want to know,” said now-veteran Grammy queen Carlile at the outset, establishing fangirl credentials. “And, predictably,.
