-I mean, fantastic.
Welcome to the show. You look fantastic. Thank you so much
for being here. -Thank you for letting
me borrow this outfit. -No problem. Just give it back
for the weekend. I need it for the weekend. Uh, your career is
currently exploding right now. Uh, everyone's talking
about Chappell Roan, and I wanted you
to maybe look at this photo and tell me what you remember
about this. Uh, do you remember this scene?
Where were you, and what was it? What was going on
with -- with your life here? -I had no money, and I
was working at a doughnut shop, and I was performing
at this weird gay festival. Love. Um, and... -Yeah. You were working at a
donut shop. -I think that was the first time
I performed "Pink Pony Club" in front -- like, in the world.
-Really? -Yeah.
-Here's you, uh, last week or two weeks ago
at the Governors Ball. This is the crowd here. [ Cheers and applause ] Look at you.
Come on. Look at this. Look at that.
[ Chuckles ] Uh...I'm so happy. What does it feel like?
-Um, it feels like I was right
all along, and... [ Laughter ]
-That's right. Good for you. -Yeah. It feels like --
Yeah, I did it. I mean, I feel kind of
like I made it already whenever I was like, oh, my God, people showed up to my concert,
like, a few years ago. It was like, people came?
-Yeah. -And that's kind of --
Everything else has been the cherry on top.
-Yeah. Well, I heard that when you
first signed your record deal that there was a
high school announcement over the loudspeakers
that said that, uh, you signed a record deal, also that the lunch
special was pizza. [ Laughter ] -Yeah,
it was in the same sentence. -In the same sentence. -Yeah, and everyone was like,
she's lying. She's lying.
-Isn't that great? But that must be exciting. And then to sign a record deal,
and then you go, hey, I think, uh, I'm not sure
if this is what I want to do. And you kind of go,
I might give up music. -Yeah, I gave it a year
because it was just like I had no -- I didn't,
like actually start making money where I could afford
my rent until, like, the past couple -- maybe like a year
and a half, maybe a year. -And what were you going to do?
-And -- Well, I was going to go
to school and like go -- I was going to move back home and probably just like take
a break from music and... I was thinking about coming -- becoming an esthetician
or something. But the other thing
I'm really good at is genetics. So I was like either singer
or genetic person, so... [ Laughter ]
-Uh... -What is that called?
What is a genetic...? -I don't know, I have no idea. I'm trying to think
of what a genetic person is. -I don't know.
-But -- Yeah, well, you got
that to fall back on. [ Laughter ]
I mean, I want to do that, too. You're now known for your
on stage looks. You have a great sense of style.
-Thank you. -Uh, these are some of your
onstage looks. The Statue of Liberty
was fantastic. Um, what is the, um --
what's the inspiration? Where are you pulling
the inspiration on these looks? -Well, my stylist,
Genesis Webb, and I just, like, um, we pull from drag,
we pull from horror movies, we pull from burlesque,
we pull from theatre. Like, I love looking pretty
and scary and like... Or like pretty and tacky or
pretty -- like... Or just not pretty.
I love that too. -Yeah, yeah. -But, yeah, I just think
it's just not serious. I think that --
-Yeah, you're fun. -It's, like, it's never -- I love that fans, like, find
such deep meanings to things. And I'm just like, I don't know, I thought I looked hot,
so that's why. -Yeah.
-Like, I don't know if it's anything more than that. -You said something
at Coachella that I loved. You said, I'm Chappell Roan, and I'm your favorite artists'
favorite artist. And that was... [ Cheers and applause ] -That was a reference
to Sasha Colby. [ Cheers and applause ]
And she says -- There's gay people here.
[ Laughter ] -Yes, yes,
there are gay people here. -Sasha Colby said, I'm your favorite drag queens'
favorite drag queen. And I was like, it
just hit me through the heart. And so I was like, I hope
Sasha Colby one day watches me, and that's why I said it. -Sasha, if you're hearing
right now, yeah. Thank you for the... [ Cheers and applause ] I Googled you, uh, today just to see what pops up,
and it says... -Did you not know
who I was before? -No. [ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ] Hey, I can do -- I can sing --
I can sing all of your... I can -- I can do it.
Yeah. No, I just wanted to see
what popped up. -Well, I Googled you, too.
You wanna know what comes up? [ Laughter ] -I don't want to know
what pops up, but can you zoom in right there? It says, "Did you mean: your favorite artist's
favorite artist?" I think that's kind of fun.
-I didn't do that. -No, no, no,
the world did that. -No. It's this random twink
that works at Google. I know it is. I know it's just some --
it's some assistant that, like... we love her! You know what I mean? -That's why you have friends.
That's why you have friends. That's why you have friends
and fans. Can I just go through some
of the stats that's happening right now?
Because I just love you so much. You currently have three songs
on the Billboard Hot 100. [ Cheers and applause ]
That's amazing. -Thank you.
-Good Luck, Babe!" "Good Luck, Babe!"
Is what you're doing -- you're performing tonight. Which, thank you
for doing that because -- -Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Every time I hear it on
the radio, I have to turn it up. I can't --
It's my favorite song right now. It's been on the hot 100
for 10 weeks, and it has almost 200 million
streams on Spotify. In just a few months, you went from
2 million to 21 million monthly Spotify listeners. And your album, "The Rise
and Fall of a Midwest Princess," went to number one
on the US iTunes charts. Come on now.
[ Cheers and applause ] You don't have to Google.
You don't have to Google it. No, no, no, no, no. Uh, when you came up with
this album, what kind of album
did you want to make here? -I just wanted to make
something that I could party to and other people could party to, and something that, like,
I would never be sad, like, or bored performing. And because I think
that's been in the past, like, that's
why I changed so hard to pop, pop, pop because it was
so boring performing sad songs. It's like not fun to go on tour and, like, be sad for months
and months and months. -Yeah. No. Yeah.
It's not good for you. -It's like everyone is
already like that anyway, so I just wanted something to
party to and, like, I did. -Here's the single
"Good Luck, Babe!" right now. So everyone go on your Spotify or whatever you're
listening to music on, call your deejays and ask
to listen to "Good Luck, Babe!" Uh, this is Chappell Roan,
everybody, and, uh, we're
so excited you're here. "The Rise and Fall
of a Midwest Princess" is available right now. Chappell's performing for us
after the break! Stick around! Stay tuned!