Just a few hours after the long -awaited release of its new single, “The Subway,” Chappell Roan has shared a music video for the song, a ballad she played for the first time more than a year ago, on 2024 Governors ball Festival.
The clip, directed by Amber Grace Johnson (Jorja Smith, FKA Twigs), is a New York City-theme fantasy that contains the singer in several, often surreal scenes: go down narrow sidewalks in a variety of comedic long-haired wigs, splash around in Washington Square Park Fountain, peeling off
Chappells says in the press release that announces the video, “Klisch by” The girl that got away “hardly scratches the surface for me with this song. I wrote it as I stumbled around in New York with a broken heart and I continued to imagine on each street, fireflow, café, park and yes … the subway.” “
Although it was not released until Friday, “The Subway” found its own life on Tiktok this year, with fans picking out outro – where the Roan belts, “She has, she has a way / she has a way, she has a way” – for soundtrack nostalgic videos and photos (over (over 100,000 posts have used the unofficial sound).
The music video comes just a few days after the Grammy winner announced a series of pop-up show that is planned for later this year. When he made the announcement, the Roan confirmed that she is working on the follow -up of her debut album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.” She said the show was her effort “to do something special before she passed away to write the next album.”
Roan has not shared new music since “The Giver” earlier this year, which came after the success of her breakout single “Good luck, bride!“The single topped No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 diagram and reached No. 1 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and more.
Roan’s upcoming pop -up -show -a run she is called “Visions of ponds and other dangerous things” – Will take place throughout September and October. This includes four nights in a row at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, new, two at the museum and Memorial Park in Kansas City, Mo and two at Brookide at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, approximately