Originally appeared on E! Online
Chappell Roan is not in a rush to release new music.
Though she recently debuted the long-awaited song “The Giver,” which was first performed live during her debut appearance as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live last November, she explained that she wants to take some time to recover from the creative process that went into making her Grammy-winning album.
“It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next,” Chappell noted. “I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out.”
Chappell Roan is reflecting on the lessons of superstardom.
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“I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything,” she continued. “I see some comments sometimes, like, ‘She’s everywhere except that damn studio.’ Even if I was in the studio 12 hours a day, every single day, that does not mean that you would get an album any faster.”
And perhaps it was comments of that nature that has encouraged the “HOT TO GO” hitmaker to largely stay off social media—especially while actively working on a new project.
“Socials harm the f–k out of me and my art,” she expressed to the outlet. “I’m not doing that to myself anymore. I’ve never written an album where I don’t have Instagram or anything. The album process is purely, only mine. No one on TikTok gets to see it.”
After all, Chappell was never one to hold back about sharing the realities of fame since becoming a pop sensation overnight. She even insisted that she’d be even more celebrated if she didn’t speak her mind so freely.
“I think, actually, I’d be more successful if I was okay wearing a muzzle,” she told The BBC back in January. “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.”
Having canceled several musical festival appearances just months prior, she went on to credit her late grandfather Dennis Chappell, who inspired her onstage moniker, with providing her advice that has informed how she decides whether or not to take on something new.
“There’s something he said that I think about in every move I make with my career: ‘There are always options,'” the “Pink Pony Club” singer recalled. “So when someone says, ‘Do this concert because you’ll never get offered that much money ever again’, it’s like, who cares?”
“If I don’t feel like doing this right now, there are always options,” she added. “There is not a scarcity of opportunity. I think about that all the time.”
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