Chappell Roan Drops “The Subway”—But What’s She Really Trying to Tell Us Underground?
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Have you ever wondered what happens when Mercury retrograde collides with heartbreak and a handful of neon-green face paint? Hold onto your cosmic subway cards because Chappell Roan just unveiled “The Subway”—and let’s just say, if Lady Liberty had a playlist this summer, this anthem would be on repeat between “Empire State of Mind” and three sad Broadway show tunes . Picture this: you’re riding an endless NYC train, slap-bang in the astrological minefield of July, and suddenly, there’s Chappell—wig dragging down Canal Street, feelings messier than my lipstick after bottomless brunch . But isn’t that life? One day you’re painted green at Governors Ball, the next your fans are refreshing YouTube at 3 AM hoping for a cathartic bop . It’s poetic, it’s chaotic, it’s unhinged in exactly the right way . And honestly, with Pluto squaring Venus this weekend, is anyone surprised that Roan’s latest video is serving up equal parts drama and introspection, all with a dash of glorious melodrama? If you need a little heartbreak therapy or just want to see someone who can rock a wig longer than the F Train delays, you’re in for a treat . LEARN MORE.
Chappell Roan dropped the music video for her long-awaited single “The Subway” on Friday, just hours after she dropped the song on Thursday night, and over a year after she first performed the single during her viral Governors Ball concert in June of 2024.
“I’m very proud of this song & what a journey she has been on,” Roan wrote on her Instagram Thursday after the song dropped. “I first played it at gov ball when I was painted green as lady liberty and in the past have played new songs live to feel them out.”
The video, shot in New York, was directed by Amber Grace Johnson and shot on 35mm film, depicting Roan making her way through the city in cartoonishly long wigs and loathing about a broken heart on the subway.
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“Obviously not knowing this really chaotic year would follow the performance, it didn’t really leave me the time to build the world the song deserved,” Roan wrote. “But finally we are here. I def ripped my hair out trying to figure out the puzzle of how this song should feel musically and visually and emotionally, luckily there are some to spare. Thank you for sticking it out for a whole year. It was worth it to make sure everything was absolutely right.”
“The Subway” comes four months after Roan had dropped her country-tinged “The Giver” back in March. Fans had been waiting on that song for months after she debuted it on Saturday Night Live, and she teased the song with an extensive marketing campaign that included billboards in cities around the U.S. “The Giver” debuted at Number 5 on The Hot 100 and marked her first-ever number one on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
With “The Subway” out, Roan will be performing a slate of pop-up shows in New York, L.A., and Kansas City later this fall.
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