"It makes you scared to release stuff": Chappell Roan reveals why she's not rushing her sophomore album

Chappell Roan is in no rush to deliver a follow-up to The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, mostly because she hasn’t even started it.

In a new interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, the pop star admitted her sophomore album is far from finished, and she’s still figuring out what it will sound like.

“I just think that ‘The Giver,’ ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ [and] ‘The Subway,’ they’re all kind of so different. So that’s why I’m just like, ‘I have no idea what the next era is.’ That’s the scary part of putting out new music and then people not liking it, because it’s not like the music you made before. It makes you scared to release stuff.”

Chappell Roan further said that releasing new material can feel daunting, as there’s always the fear that listeners won’t embrace it the way they did her debut.

The Guilty Pleasure singer explained that this worry comes with every release and is “the risk you take every single time.”

"There is no album": Chappell Roan clears the air on her sophomore record plans

Chappell Roan had already curbed fans' expectations just last week, where she noted that her sophomore record is still years away. In an exclusive interview with Vogue, she said:

“The second project doesn’t exist yet. There is no album. There is no collection of songs.”

She added that it took her five years to write her first one, and she expects the next will take at least as long.

"I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out. I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything. 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.”

Chappell Roan's latest single, The Subway, might be the bridge to what comes next.

“I think it’s a good ring on the ladder."

Despite its New York setting, the track was inspired by her time in Los Angeles. She explained to Lowe:

“‘The Subway’ is just so much more romantic. But it was actually about me hiding in Los Angeles from someone who I was deeply in love with. We weren’t on bad terms, it was just kind of trying to avoid the coffee shops that we went to and parties."

The Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl hitmaker went on:

"And so that’s where it came from, was, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know how to exist in this city.’ I felt pretty lonely there for many years.”

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Nonetheless, Chappell Roan is excited about how her next release will come about without social media influence.

“I’ve never written an album where I don’t have Instagram or anything. The album process is purely, only mine. No one on TikTok gets to see it.”

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