Good... but also I have no idea who that is 👴
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45 million monthly listeners on Spotify. That is 10 million more than The Beatles right now. 60th overall on the top list of plays just above Michael Jackson. Half the amount of TSwift
So they are a well known artist.
Oh, did the new Beatles album drop?
I mean, using these spotify metrics in comparison with all time greats is kinda flawed.
For example my band sold just as many tickets as Michael Jackson and the Beatles COMBINED in 2024.
I am not in a band.
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Her music is infectious. Think 80’s Madonna if she were progressive, very lesbian, and even sadder and somehow more vengeful than Alanis Morissette
that's a hell of an endorsement; enough that i went and listened. not my thing. but overall seems chill.
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Oh thanks, NPR is really good at dumbing down pop music for me.
I know of Chappell Roan because she's recently been ruffling people's feathers by asserting boundaries against fans' parasocial weirdness; I've never heard any of her music, but this alone is enough to make me a fan.
Here's her NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Edit: her music video for 'Hot To Go' shot in her Missouri hometown https://youtu.be/xaPNR-_Cfn0
And for the Elton fans, her cover of 'Your Song' https://youtu.be/wslno0wDSFQ
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“I just woke up to, like, people just skewing it even more,” Roan said of the reaction to her no endorsement post of Tuesday. “Endorsing and voting are completely different. I don’t agree with a lot of what is going on with, like, policies. Like, obviously, fuck the policies on the right, but also fuck some of the policies on the left. That’s why I can’t endorse.”
“I’m not gonna settle for what the options are that are in front of me, and you are not gonna make me feel bad for that,” Roan added today with a critique of both candidates and their positions, “So yeah, I’m voting for fucking Kamala, but I’m not settling for what has been offered, because that’s questionable.”
Fucking spot on.
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Did anyone actually watch the video? She's upset that neither side represent what she deems acceptable.
She's young and doesn't understand that government doesn't get fixed in a day. Where we are is the result of influence from corporate stooges since Reagan. It's come to a boiling point and I understand her frustration. A vote for Harris is a vote for steering the ship towards what she deems is acceptable, but that ship sails slower than a lot people can understand.
She's not that young, she's been doing music for a decade and working service jobs till now. And you can understand something and still feel it is unacceptable.
She's 26. That's fairly young for a voter. Not really sure what her cv has to do with being considered old.
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I agree with the core of what you’re saying except I disagree that she “doesn’t understand” how slowly politics works. I think her decision to vote for Harris anyway speaks to that kind of understanding, else she’d endorse a third-party candidate/write-in in a poor attempt to speed-run democracy.
She’s young and doesn’t understand that government doesn’t get fixed in a day.
I'm old and I'm still waiting for the government to be fixed.
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She's been getting a lot of hate for not endorsing Harris and people fail to realize the difference between endorsing and voting. Her entire point is that the government can't be fixed in a day. Voting for Harris is the obvious choice but her being in office isn't going to magically solve all our problems.
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Yeah I get it. I was young once and I’ve even had to have the bitter realization that even Revolution neither happens in a day nor resolves anything quickly. I ask for the passion of the young to hold hands with the wisdom of us older folks. It’s easy to demand sudden change, and important too, but building bases of power are important.
Vote for Kamala then hold her feet to the fire. Vote in every primary. Discuss what you think with people around you when it comes up, I know I’m the annoying pro trains girl at work. Build the support and make those maga losers afraid to show their faces.
And entertainers can do so much. Cobain got people who wouldn’t otherwise thinking of homophobia as uncool for example
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Boomer centrists know what a search engine is, but since Chappell Roan didn't endorse, and voting isn't good enough, so they're like "Who? I never heard of her! She must not be very important if she doesn't agree with me 100% on my terms!"
Centrists can't imagine people being frustrated with their decades of obstruction and sliding to the right.
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I guess I’m officially old because I don’t know who tf this person is or why I should care about her opinion but I keep seeing her name everywhere🤣
She has a really good queer pop album.
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is an incredible piece of work.
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WHO IS THIS PERSON
One of the biggest pop stars currently. Here she is setting the record for largest crowd of all time at Lollapalooza in Chicago this summer.
Shit, its like Bad Bunny all over again. Had no idea who he was, just to find out he is/was the biggest artist in the world. I fear I may be out of touch.
starting to get big. you've probably heard her music on the radio recently if you tune into a pop station. she's got some good stuff!
r-radio?
I’m 45, and even I haven’t listened to radio and at least a decade
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Don't be so proud of your ignorance. Just look it up.
Uh, it’s a ticket. You can’t vote for one and not the other. Walz is implicitly endorsed. I don’t understand what the point of the headline’s distinction is.
She's voting for Kamala but not endorsing her.
Yeah, dumb title confused me too. I didn’t care enough to read the article but comments helped me realize “no VP endorsement” means she’s not endorsing Harris, who is the current VP.
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She needs to get off the internet. She has more dumbasses and trolls now than she had total fans 2 years ago and she doesn't know how to handle it.
This was my take on it. She is a big Star, I figured she would have learned to just ignore the fanatics by now. She just comes off so frustrated in the video. We didn’t see Taylor Swift writing up a response every time fans demand it.
Tay sway has been media trained since she was a child. She's a product and she knows it. Roan was playing on a keyboard in the park not that long ago and she hasn't figured out that she will go crazy trying to manage her fame like she is.
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