This album has everything you could ask for
With this writer's favourites being ‘After Midnight’ and ‘My Kink is Karma,’ every single song is incredible, and not even one of them requires use of the skip button. An openly lesbian singer explicitly singing about her experiences with women in a positive light, Chappell Roan willingly embodies her queerness and produces fantastic music while she’s at it. Through both upbeat and morose songs that will absolutely blow your socks off, Roan takes us on her coming out journey and her move to LA. Songs like ‘HOT TO GO’ provide the uplifting, sexy vibes associated with getting drunk at the gay club, going hand in hand with the beautiful ‘Super Ultra Modern Girl.’ Tragic power ballads are interspersed amidst these bangers, with songs like ‘Coffee’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’ guaranteed to tear you apart. Roan’s concerts are a dress-up heaven, with costume themes and support from local drag queens - seeing this album performed live is bound to be a life changing experience. After claiming to, ‘stop trying to impress the press and start trying to impress gay people,’ she provides a bold, safe atmosphere of optimism and reality for queer people around the globe. Whilst detailing experiences a large amount of queer people can relate to, Roan still is silly and outrageous - embodying the full spectrum of queer feelings as a self-professed ‘sensitive person.’ Her sensitivity partners wonderfully with her campness - amalgamating in a theatrical performance of queer sensitivity that will knock you off your feet. Chappell Roan’s subversive, tragic, campy first album could not be any more fantastic - I guarantee you will love every second and cry your little heart out.
