Chappell Roan has shared an update ahead of the 67th Grammy Awards, which is set to take place this coming Sunday (February 2).
The former NME Cover star has accrued six Grammy nominations off the meteoric success of her 2023 album The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year (‘Good Luck, Babe!’), and Best New Artist.
Roan will also perform at the ceremony, and she previously teased that she will “say something controversial” should she win. Now, in an Instagram post shared yesterday (January 29), Roan opened up about life leading up to the awards.
“Hey girls I just woke up. Good morning booboos. It’s Grammy week,” she wrote. “I am very emo. My heart feels warm and fuzzy with all the support I have been given this past year.”
She continued, revealing that the journey thus far “has been incredible and scary and spiritual and confusing.”
The ‘Red Wine Supernova’ singer has been open about her opinions on fan culture and frequently spoken honestly about her rapid ascent to stardom. Last year, she discussed the normalisation of extreme fan behaviour, which she has described as “stalking” and people “talking shit online” who “won’t leave you alone”.
“I’ve been crying tears of joy and grief and feeling loved and lonely and free,” she wrote on Instagram. “Ultimately, I am grateful for every one of you who gave my music a little spin and showed your ass up to shows and festivals.”
“I love the performance we’re preparing for you all,” she revealed. “And girl no matter what, just know when I’m up on stage, all I’m really feeling in my heart is love to the queer community especially those in places where it is unsafe to be yourself. I see you”.
Last week (January 20), Roan also offered that she would “be more successful if I was OK wearing a muzzle.”
“If I were to override more of my basic instincts, where my heart is going, ‘Stop, stop, stop, you’re not OK’, I would be bigger. I would be way bigger… And I would still be on tour right now.”
She went on to say that she chose not to extend her 2024 tour to protect her physical and mental health – a decision she credits her late grandfather for.
“There’s something he said that I think about in every move I make with my career. There are always options,” she said. “So when someone says, ‘Do this concert because you’ll never get offered that much money ever again’, it’s like, who cares?”
Speaking to NME at the beginning of 2024, Roan reflected on her decision to scale back pre-gig meet and greets into “a VIP experience with group questions” saying that one-on-one interactions were triggering her social anxiety. “What fans say to me is really flattering and I’m so thankful, but sometimes I would have panic attacks after because I felt so overwhelmed,” she told us. “It was a lot to take in and then do a show.”
Her ascent to stardom saw her land a UK Number One album in August, win the Best New Artist prize at the MTV VMAs the following month, and later earn six nominations at the Grammys 2025. She has also been announced as a headliner of next year’s Reading & Leeds and Primavera Sound, and this month she was crowned the winner of BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of 2025.
Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe’ was also named as NME’s best song of 2024. “With ‘Good Luck, Babe!’, Roan set out to write a ‘big anthemic pop song’. It was an unqualified success: over subtly insistent synth-pop, Roan serves up home truths to someone desperately trying to deny their queerness,” the entry read.
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