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Chappell Roan gets the job done; it just has to be on her terms. Roan isn’t one to give in to pressure from the industry. Since the release of her first album, fans have been itching to hear a new full-length record from her, but she’s not caving in; Roan has been teasing her beloved single “The Subway” since last summer, and she just barely released it. So, what does a sophomore Chappell Roan release look like? Here’s everything she’s said so far about what’s next for the Midwest Princess’s discography, well, besides going on tour this summer.
Roan insists that despite releasing new music, a second album “doesn’t exist yet.” She tells Vogue in August 2025, “There is no album. There is no collection of songs.” She also explained how her first album and second album will probably have a similar creative process: “It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next. I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out.” Just because there’s immense pressure to put out another album doesn’t mean it’s changing how she works. “I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything,” she shared. “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.”
It’s not like Roan hasn’t been writing in the mean time. She told Rolling Stone in September 2024 about what she’s been working on so far: “We have a country song. We have a dancy song. We have one that’s really Eighties, and we have one that’s acoustic, and we have one that’s really organic, live-band, Seventies vibe. It’s super weird.”
Dan Nigro, who produced The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, told the New York Times in October 2024 that they have five tracks so far, describing them as “a couple of ballads and a mid-tempo rock song,” two of which have already seemingly been released.
Since the release of The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Roan’s released three singles: “Good Luck, Babe!”, “The Giver,” and “The Subway.”
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