Yahoo Lifestyle Chappell Roan Says She’s Met With “Different” Expectations Because of Her Queerness
Chappell Roan is the latest member of Alex Cooper’s beloved Daddy Gang. The Grammy winner caught up with the former Cosmo cover girl on a new episode of Call Her Daddy, where she dropped bombshells about her dating life and shared anecdotes about her booming career, including the origin story behind her hit, “HOT TO GO!”
As the Midwest Princess navigated her meteoric rise to mainstream success last year, she opened up about people's high expectations of her after “Good Luck, Babe!” took off.
“People expect me to play by different rules because I’m gay and I should be more politically correct about that, and I should actually be way more knowledgeable about it,” she told Alex. “So I get asked a lot of fucking crazy questions that a lot of my peers would not get asked. And that’s because I’m gay and that’s because I have my opinions, but that doesn’t mean I’m completely like, I don’t know everything about every topic I have opinions on, like being gay.”
The singer-songwriter continued, “Like, I don’t know everything about being a woman. I don’t know everything about fucking fashion or drag or performing. I try to know everything I can, but when I don’t answer a question correctly or I don’t acknowledge one community, it’s like, how can I do it all? How can these girls tour, write, perform, interview, sleep, eat, and workout? And how can they do all and lead a team and be a boss and pay people and be like fucking so politically educated?”
As Chappell’s new song, “The Giver,” climbs up the Billboard Hot 100 chart, she made history as the third woman to debut her first Hot Country Songs entry at No. 1, after Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” in 2024 and Bebe Rexha’s “Meant To Be” with Florida Georgia Line in 2017. And, the more she’s in the spotlight, the more keen she’s been on standing up for herself and setting boundaries between fans, the media, and industry execs.
“I think people are scared of me,” she confessed during the interview. “I think I made a big enough deal about not talking to me that people do not talk to me. That’s, I think, the truth of it all, and I’ve been with people, like friends who are artists, and when they’re with me, they’re like, ‘It’s a force field around us. People don’t come up to me if I’m with you.’ I’m just like, ‘Damn, baby. You say it too. You say, don’t touch me, don’t touch me. Don’t look at me, don’t touch me. I don’t know who you are,’ and they won’t come up and bother you.”
She added that she’s aware “it really hurts people ’cause they feel like it’s me disrespecting them, that I owe it to them and that how dare I call it abuse or complaining about success.”
“I’m not complaining about success,” she continued. “I’m just complaining about creepy behavior. I love admiration. Everyone loves admiration. I just don’t want you to interrupt me when I’m having a fight with my girlfriend. Don’t be like, ‘Can I get a photo?’ when I’m crying, talking to my girlfriend? That’s fucking crazy.”
Catch up on all the stories Chappell Roan shared during her full Call Her Daddy interview below.
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