Chappell Roan’s Tiny Desk Concert
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about Chappell Roan, a 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Missouri, so I watched her NPR Tiny Desk Concert and loved it.
(Bizarrely, I first heard of her while chasing down info about Sinéad O’Connor: I saw mention that there was a Sinéad-themed Bratz Doll, but it turned out there was just a rendering of Sinéad as a Bratz Doll — no actual physical doll — as part of their Women’s History Month programming. Sinéad was the second female icon to be Bratz-ified; Chappell Roan was the first.)
In an article from earlier this week, Rolling Stone called Roan “the future of pop.” Her musicians are fabulous, too.
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Loved it as well. Lovely voice. Loved the subject matter and her perspectives about them. Reminds me of Tori Amos, not so much in sound but in theme.
Thank you for this. It’s been a day and her voice and music have been therapeutic.
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