2024-08-12
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
I may be a year late to this one, but the debut album by singer Chappel Roan creates an incredible image for the future of her career, and creates a powerful image of her, and is an empowering album that I just have to review.
It combines the styles pop has been missing with intense lyricism and creates an album of queer anthems with the qualities expected of a fourth or fifth album, making it hard to believe this is just a debut.
However many tracks have repetitive or generic synth pop instrumentation, and the times when she does do something unique sonically, it is played for a joke, such as in 'femininomenon', which, along with the way the quality drops off after the first half of the album, I believe does lessen the album a little.
That aside, this is a very fun project, which successfully creates the picture of her as a modern-day Lady Gaga, and shows that it really does take 10 years to be an overnight success. I and many others would love to see more from her in coming years.
8.5
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