The Tiny office The set was temporarily transformed into the Pink Pony Club for Chappell Roan's debut appearance in the online concert series posted on Thursday (March 21).
The 26-year-old rising pop star was joined behind NPR's literally tiny office by an all-female band, with each musician dressed in a pink collared shirt and matching blue eye shadow and red lipstick combinations. In a drag-inspired pink dress, Marie Antoinette makeup and a tiara, Chappell was clearly the star of the show.
Among her appearances on 'Casual', 'Pink Pony Club', 'Picture You', 'California' and 'Red Wine Supernova' — all five of which appear on the singer's debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess — The Missouri native even revealed one of her beauty secrets to the crowd.
“Even though it looks like it's all my hair, it's a wig,” she said of her much-teased red 'do, which she accessorized with a butterfly clip. “It's so hot. Is there a garbage bag inside?” [the wig]? That's how we made it so big.”
Towards the end of her set, Roan confessed that she was playing Tiny office it had long been a dream of hers. “I love NPR, guys, I'm serious – I'm donating!” she added, earning rapturous applause from her audience of NPR executives.
The musician is currently touring with Olivia Rodrigo as the opening act for the “Drivers License” singer's Guts World tour. Later this year, Roan will hit the road on her own groundbreaking journey titled The Midwest Princess tour.
Roan first connected with Rodrigo through their mutual producer, Dan Nigro. Last year, the engineer launched his own label, Amusement Records, with the 'Hot to Go' artist as a signee.
“My world opened up, and so did my music,” Roan said Advertising sign in June I was writing songs with Nigro after she left her first label, Atlantic Records, in 2020. “My music reflected the feelings of my first time in a gay club, my first time falling in love with a woman, my first my sense of nostalgia — I had to go through all these experiences, this pain and suffering, to be reborn to where I am now.”
Watch Chappell Roan's Tiny office performance above.
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