Startseite
Podcasts
Swiftologist Podcast
13: The Problem With Chappell Roan Has Nothing To Do With Chappell Roan

13: The Problem With Chappell Roan Has Nothing To Do With Chappell Roan

Swiftologist vor 5 Monaten

0:00

28:45

The Chappell Roan discourse is loud, exhausting, and almost
entirely beside the point. There are two versions of this story
circulating right now. One casts her as a brave
boundary-setting folk hero. The other casts her as a
thin-skinned upstart who can't handle what she signed up for. I
think both of those readings are lazy, and the reason they keep
winning says more about us than it does about her.

In this episode, I break down Chappell's full arc: the meteoric
2024 rise, the boundary-setting era, and the three flashpoints
— the VMAs, Paris Fashion Week, and the Brazil affair — that
flipped public opinion. I look at why Charli XCX, Billie
Eilish, Lady Gaga, and Lorde publicly backed her. I compare her
treatment to Chris Brown, Morgan Wallen, and Justin Bieber. And
I bring in Susan Faludi's Backlash and the Dixie Chicks because
this script has been running for decades.

Chappell is clumsy, sometimes strategically terrible, and
occasionally sets herself on fire to make a point that didn't
require self-immolation. But there's a meaningful difference
between critique and the kind of moral prosecution that seems
to activate specifically when a woman stops performing
pleasantries on command.

If the sight of a woman being imperfect in public activates an
impulse to morally grandstand in you, my beloved, it's time for
you to look inside.