Chappell Roan Reflects On Meteoric Rise During 'Fallon' Debut: 'I Was Right All Along'

During a performance Last week, Chappell Roan got emotional telling her audience how she's been processing her meteoric rise, which has already been rapid and seems to have completely exploded after her Governors Ball performance. But when the eccentric musician arrived for her appearance at The Tonight Show and host Jimmy Fallon asked how she's been feeling lately, she replied without hesitation, “I feel like I've been right all along.”

If Roan knew this moment was coming, it was only because it worked for her. The singer recalled the time she signed her first record deal, an achievement announced throughout her high school over the loud speaker in the same sentence as the lunch special of the day. People thought she was lying, she said, and even though she wasn't, her reality was anything but glamorous. Just about a year ago, Roan was making enough money from music to pay her rent and make ends meet.

“I mean, I kind of feel like I've already made it whenever I'm like, 'Oh my god, people showed up to my concert,'” Roan explained. “It was like people came? Everything else was the cherry on top.”

And the cherry on top of Roan The Tonight Show The performance was an over-the-top rendition of her latest single “Good Luck, Babe!” The singer performed in a frosty ensemble, decked out in feathers and flanked by a bench of swans in her onstage garden. The record marks her first release since sharing her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess last year.

“I just wanted to make something that I could party to and other people would party to, and something that I would never get sad or bored of performing,” Roan said earlier in the evening. “That's why I switched so hard to pop, pop, pop, because it was so boring to perform sad songs. It's not fun to go on tour and, like, be sad for months and months.”