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Earlier this week, I said that everything I've learnt about Chappell Roan was against my will. But after repeated exposure to her single "Good Luck, Babe!", I must confess that it's grown on me and the hype might be warranted: this didn't top the singles chart here for no reason.
I still don't understand how the absolute banger Hot To Go wound up being used in a TARGET ad. HOW DID LITTLE CAESARS NOT COWBOY UP WITH THE CASH TO GET IT?!
I love Chappell Roan, unironically. My Kink is Karma is one of the best joke songs I've heard in a while, Hot to Go and Red Wine Supernova are great workout songs. She's killing it right now. The dislike of her really confuses me.
I liked "Hot to Go". It inspired a similar reaction as when I heard "Gimme Chocolate" by Babymetal: you can't help but smile at the sheer audacious silliness of the thing.
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I could take or leave the music, but I do have to admit that PowerPoint-97-looking music video is amusing.
She seems to have some impressive vocal control, though. Flipping through other videos, it sounds like this one is way above her usual register, and yet she's still doing smooth glissandos up to the highest notes?
One of the comments on the video:
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That’s the only one of her hits I don’t find obnoxious. I mostly can’t stand the new crop of pop girls. Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter have some okay singles but their most popular songs are annoying, Espresso has some of the worst rhymes I’ve heard in a while. On the other hand, I’ve liked Charli XCX since 2013 and she’s only gotten better since.
I liked Rodrigo's latest album actually. Almost like... rock? Sabrina's "Taste" is a fantastic cuckquean anthem, but the rest of her stuff is only OK, but she's nice to look at when building a youtube playlist so it's fine.
I don't get Chappell Roan at all.
It is funny that these women essentially have to pay homage to Taylor Swift though.
Taste is her best single. The opening line “I leave quite an impression/ 5 feet to be exact” is hilarious and on-brand for someone whose image is built around being short and horny. Isn’t she cucking the other girl though?
Oh and in her live performances of Nonsense, she changes the last line of the song to a different innuendo every time. The original is “woke up this morning thought I’d write a pop hit/ how quickly can you take your clothes off? pop quiz”. When she played on BBC she changed it to “BBC said I should keep it PG/ BBC I wish I had it in me/ There’s a double meaning if you dig deep”
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I really like most of her tracks, check out their nightcore versions alongside the original ones. Katy Perry too was fairly good back in her heyday.
Gen Z "listen to a song at the tempo at which it was originally recorded" challenge (this is impossible)
Nightcore was far more prevalent 10 years ago than now, though I am young enough to be lumped in that category.
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I don't even know who a single of these people is.
How does one even get exposure to pop girls?
Hang out with girls, or at the gym.
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Listen to the radio. The only reason I've heard Chappell Roan's music is because I recently started a new job in which the office has a radio tuned to a local station playing chart music all day.
Alternatively, join a gym and don't bring your own Airpods. You will hear a lot of chart and dance music.
Or have female friends (this is how I first heard Olivia Rodrigo).
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I thought that song "Vampire" was alright, if a bit melodramatic. Can't imagine getting that bent out of shape about some dude you probably didn't even have sex with.
There were a few songs off the How I'm Feeling Now album I enjoyed, but I found the marketing campaign surrounding brat so annoying and inescapable (not least of which the "Kamala is brat" "endorsement") that I'm refusing to listen to her as an act of protest.
Vampire does shamelessly rip off Creep but that song also rips off an older 70s hit so I can’t complain
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I like the Sabrina Carpenter cover of it.
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