what is it called when an artist's first album is already a greatest hits collection that's the question I kept asking during Chappelle Ron's first UK show of 2024 on Friday normally concerts e and flow but the audience at the Manchester Academy knew more than just the singles they sang every word every ad lib of every song Some with mascara running others with hands clasped to their chests at times Chappelle herself was found out at others she simply stopped and listened as the fans chanted her lyrics back at her it's a phenomenon or to use chapelle's terminology a feminin omen that only occurs once in a blue moon I saw it when Olivia Rodrigo played her first UK dates in 2022 I saw it when One Direction hit wimbley stadium and I saw it on the first leg of Amy win House's Back to Black tour before excitement turned to concern it happens when an artist speaks directly to their fans more accurately it happens when fans feel like an artist is speaking on their behalf for chapelle's audience the devotion is particularly potent because of what she represents the 26-year-old is the first pop star to achieve mainstream success as an openly queer person rather than coming out as part of their postf Fame narrative her debut album the rise and fall of a Midwest princess is a real life Life coming of age Story full of messy complex relationships and tentative sexual experimentation she made the first half of it while dating a man but the lyrics betrayed her true feelings