Incredible things about the Chappell Roan VMAs performance
This is the first time she's had a really big budget to work with for one of her live performances and she put it to amazing use
Her look and theme for this performance felt like a subtle but significant break from her long-running "thrift store drag queen" concept. Her makeup was a lot subtler than usual and there's nothing drag queen or thrift store about knights and chainmail. But at the same time, Chappell has always been willing to go over the top and we're now seeing that with a bigger budget, she's able to go way more over the top in more ways than ever before which is SO exciting
You can hear her audibly catching her breath a few times during the song (probably from running around in a fucking suit of armor while singing) but despite that she STILL managed to absolutely nail the high notes for the "I told you so" part at the end
I don't know if she did this on purpose but despite not even having another woman on stage with her she still managed to give the lesbians more than they could have asked for considering that there is nothing lesbians love more than a woman with a sword
To put it concisely I am, as the twinks say, gagged
chappel roan’s got this sudden very huge burst of attention and since then she has
shown up to jimmy fallon in full drag
shown up to her concerts in even zainier outfits than before
worn a nun costume to one concert and when people were uncomfortable she was like good. toodles!
very clearly stated she will retreat from the public eye if she feels threatened by her fame
put very firm boundaries in place, not caring how that might make her look in today’s ass backward society that thinks artists owe everyone everything
she really is trying the hardest to do this in her own terms, in this industry that pretty much allows no wiggle room when it comes to being as big as she’s gotten. it’s clear to me she doesn’t care about maintaining the level of notoriety she has now, she cares about connecting to the subset of people who her art has always been aimed at and that is it. and i find it so admirable! it must be really hard to get what every artists out there is trying to and not let yourself get influenced by it, but she is remaining steadfastly herself. it’s so refreshing and it makes me like her so much more
not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community.
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