Chappell Roan may be counting down all of the days ’til you’re just another girl on the subway…but if you’re counting down the days until she drops a new album, you might have to rethink your strategy. In a new interview celebrating the release of her newest single, “Subway,” Chappell gave an update on her second album—and it’s not exactly encouraging.
“The second project doesn’t exist yet,” Chappell recently told Vogue. “There is no album. There is no collection of songs.” So, that’s a definite no on a new album, and a likely no on any hopes of a mixtape or EP to tide us over.
I think I speak for all Chappell fans when I say, we’re not mad, we’re just disappointed for our playlists. Though, we really shouldn’t be, because the Grammy winner has plenty of very good reasons for taking her time.
Her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess was only released two years ago, and she’s essentially been performing it and promoting it ever since. Yes, she’s dropped a few songs in the last year or so—“Good Luck, Babe!,” “The Giver,” and now “The Subway”—but three singles does not a new album make.
You know what does make an album, according to Chappell? Time. “It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next. I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out,” she told Vogue.
As for all the fans begging her to get back in the studio, Chappell says she’s seen the memes, but you should know, it doesn’t help much. “I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything,” she said. “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.”
Oh, and you also shouldn’t expect a lot of updates on how that second album is coming along, either. “The album process is purely, only mine,” she told the mag. “No one on TikTok gets to see it.”
