Listening To Chappell Roan For the First Time | Reaction To The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess 

Haha... yeah. This got me just now to go back over to the next Midwest Princess reaction vid I just commented on, and grab that comment. Here it is (it's long): About "Make it hot like Papa John" : From first hearing and instantly loving Femininomenon in March 2024, through seeing Chapell live in May, and having obsessed over and listened to the entire album maybe 70 times by now, I had come to accept that the above line was there (1) merely to indicate hotness, and (2) that a pizza carryout franchise name was used for the simile just because you want pizza hot and that company's name is bouncy. Only hours ago I read in a comment to another reactor's video an elaboration on that explanation. I realized, damn, that's right... and I'm glad the comment was a female's. Her interpretation finally solves this lyric fully for me. The carryout/delivery pizza simile was used because such businesses put a hot pizza into a box, and it makes the pizza box hot! Chappell's issue in this song is why TF are men, in her experience, so worthless at making HER box hot? That was a slap-my-forehead moment. What a great lyric, that I hadn't figured it out in many listens over four months, and what she'd done was sitting right there the whole time ready to be deciphered. Several days ago in a different reactor's comments I'd seen a similar illumination of the same song's two interruptions by Chappell's frustrated complaints, "Did you hear me, can you play a fucking beat?!" Those disruptions are surprises and great fun, but they too are more. They're complaints about male incompetence again! Whatever men have applied to her "there," be it the male's hand or whatever other part of him, guys simply haven't been committed enough, generous enough, or skilled enough to get her off. Weren't able, or just weren't willing, to provide the right beat long enough to get the job done. The whole song serves the same message of, screw it, guys are hopeless. This needs to be done for girls by other girls. It needs to be a femininomenon. I'm a straight male so I'm not necessarily agreeing with all that, but that's irrelevant. It's a thrilling, masterfully written and performed song, and Chappell's whole album is just stunning, a masterpiece.

No wonder I love that song 😅

Maybe he's hoping to pick up tips and face it a good song is a good song.

​@@wwaxworkhey now the straight men have a song with a fucking beat for fun time 😂

Hey, why would we know more than someone who actually has the same genitalia? So yeah, you're right. So there.

My friend, I couldn't agree more! I'm male, straight, 49 years old, and was absolutely blown away by this young woman. What a voice!! So much so my wife and I also have seen her twice now and had the time of our lives! The crowd was SO much fun and I think got a kick out of me and my wife being there down in the pit singing our hearts out.❤ Totally agree this album will transcend time!

I'm a 21 year old girl raised on heavy metal and classic rock, don't like much pop music. But Chappell is amazing!! I love the 80s vibe and all the synth in her music

100% agree, and just as an album in general it’s easily one of my favorite first listens ever

Oh my god, I saw Robert Plant a few years ago, fourth row here in St Louis and had what I can only describe as a spiritual experience. It was so good!

I was pronouncing her name wrong since I saw Pink Pony Club back in 2020 until like a month ago 😭😭

damn i heard that this was her last shot and if it didn’t work out she’d go back to school but i didnt know she already had a presence before

@@valbarnsview She's 26, she self published a cd, Kayleigh Rose, at 15. Was putting it online at 16. Got signed by Atlantic at 17. The put out her EP School Nights at... 18? But none of it "hit." It's gloomy, sad girl stuff. Dark. She also got diagosed as bipolar in... 2020? And began addressing that, which I think was probably a big factor in what was a radical shift in direction, tone, and, later, success. Pink Pony Club, in 2020, didn't sell and Atlantic dropped her. Oct 2020, the same week her bf dumped her and through her stuff out of the apt. She did leave Cali then, went home to Willard MO. But only briefly stopped working on songs. Dan Nigro, having big success with Olivia, didn't forget about Chappell and kept encouraging her and working with her. Finally, last summer, they finished the album. And both knew they had something great on their hands. They negotiated from a position of strength with record labels, and got what they wanted from Island. It's a great saga.

Air Bud 😭

i’d like an air bud explanation pretty please

AIR BUD?? I'M IN TEARS LMAO

I'm queer, and my husband isn't, he likes to say "I'm not queer, but I caucus with the queers." Which I think described the phenomenon well.

AIR BUD???? 😂😂😂

I think Chappell does it to all of us really...😁

very hard not to tbh

Oh hell yeah im always down for a new tiny desk im unaware of

Apparently he loves it now hahaha

I'm straight, almost 40, and I'm so obsessed with chappell she is amazing. I absolutely love her artistry ❤

@@PettyPerkinsi'm over 50...same ❤

Amen!

yesss

me three

YES PLEASE

i second this!!!

I’ll jot Rina down for the future

I was gonna suggest Rina too! She's soooooooooooo ❣❣❣

Omg THIS!!

Same

Same bestie

word.

I do but the chance that i listen to your submission is slim to none, its in my about on here tho

@@valbarnsview I don't see it

good luck babe ;)

@@betmo i forgot it was the title....i'm so bad with names 😭

Yes yes yes, it’s been on my radar of must listens for a few years now (i’m very bad at listening to that list it’s 100+ albums long now) Phoebe bridgers soon tho

I’ve barley dipped my toes in rnb but i may need to dive in

24:29

Yes he corrected himself, even when he first said Chapelle at the beginning he edited over it mocking himself for messing it up.

Weird comment LMAO

idk if i mentioned for casual or another song but she did have the theme of presenting a very graphic sexual image juxtaposed with very personal lyrics about her personal struggles and insecurities. Sorry if that didn’t come through very well in the video sometimes if i say it once i feel like it would be redundant to rephrase for another song down the line so i just leave it as implied. I need to get better at that though. Also this is just my first listen the more i listen i’ll understand the more intricate parts of the music with time :) It’s definitely not just a freaky song tho to sum all this yap up

With a brat vinyl in his wall sureeeee

@@fabriziom2512 being straight dont stop anyone from having fye music taste cmon bru

idk i think its a perfectly reasonable comparison. they both value campy performance and intense, interesting instrumentation-of course they’re very different, but i can see why it would be an accessible comparison in some aspects for someone whos a fan of charli. especially femininomenon

Yeah that’s the majority of what i was getting at, i’m also not very well versed in pop in general where ik charli is more electronic/experimental but from what ive listend to it was the closest comparison. My world rn is basically Taylor, billie, then charli. From the perspective of having the album sit for a week tho Chappell is definitely doing her own thing but i feel there is still breadcrumbs of inspiration from charli. Also boiling them down to “your saying this cus they’re both women” is a lil weird to me. Both have aspects of electronic pop music that are made extremely well while still being seperate artists and insanely talented in their own ways

For Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl Chappell felt like they weren't getting it quite right and she figured Charli XCX's producer was the guy who could fix it. They called him in. And he did.