Revisiting Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (with Olivia Horn) (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Olivia Horn reviewed Chappell Roan's debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, in Pitchfork when it dropped last September. Back then, she was a fringy pop upstart with some nice critical notices and a small cult audience. Now, she's one of the biggest new pop superstars of the year in the midst of a zeitgeisty swirl the likes of which we haven't seen for a new pop girlie in years. So how does the actual music hold up? Olivia joins DJ Louie to dig into the record as well as why Chappell's became 2024's "femininomenon".
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, DJ Louis here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon all-access episode |
| 0:03.7 | in which myself and critic Olivia Horn are discussing Chapel Rhone's debut album, |
| 0:08.3 | The Rise and Fall of Midwest Princess, which has made her one of the most zeiticey pop stars |
| 0:11.7 | of the moment. If you enjoy this snippet and you want to hear the rest of this episode, |
| 0:14.7 | you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon or click the link in the show notes of this |
| 0:18.6 | episode or subscribe for the audio only directly in Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:22.5 | All right. |
| 0:23.1 | So I am here with Olivia Horn, writer and critic. |
| 0:26.5 | Olivia, welcome to the show. |
| 0:28.4 | Hi. |
| 0:28.7 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 0:29.9 | It is my distinct pleasure. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm a huge, huge fan of your work. |
| 0:34.2 | And it's really fun to get to have you here specifically on this topic, |
| 0:37.6 | not just because this feels like the topic of pop music right now. The, as you just set off |
| 0:42.9 | Mike, the rise and rise of the Midwest princess herself, Chapel Rhone. But you also reviewed |
| 0:48.4 | the rise and fall of a Midwest princess for pitchwork back when it dropped in September. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm curious if you had any idea |
| 0:57.2 | that this is where this was all going when you were writing about that record. September now feels |
| 1:02.1 | like it might as well be 300 years ago in Chapel Roan terms. I remember the album coming out. I remember |
| 1:07.5 | fans of this podcast clamoring for us to talk about it and me feeling like, eh, I don't know if this rises to the occasion of getting its own episode. And part of the reason we're here today is because obviously it has since definitely risen to that occasion and it feels like we need to correct the record here. So I'm curious, when you were writing about this, when you were thinking about chapel back last September, did you have any sense that we |
| 1:27.7 | were going to be following this meteoric rise to becoming a real main pop girl, I guess, |
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