Chappell Roan goes up this Friday to the number 1 of the United Kingdom singles with ‘Pink Pony Club’, one of the singles extracted from his debut album, ‘The Rise and Fall of A Midwest Princess’ (2023). ‘Pink Pony Club’ is Roan’s first number 1 in the United Kingdom. Previously, Roan had reached the 2nd position with ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ and at 4 with ‘hot to go!’ Roan writes a single number 1 of the United Kingdom a week before the premiere of his new single, ‘The Giver’, which comes out on Friday 13.
In recent weeks, ‘Pink Pony Club’ has taken impulse on lists after the presentation of the song in the Grammy and its subsequent relaunch in radios. Roan’s viral video singing the song in a practically empty concert in 2021 has circulated without stopping. So old is the song that its launch goes back to April 2020.
Five years later, ‘Pink Pony Club’ can be considered the bad song by Chappell Roan. It is also one of Roan’s compositions that help to understand and put his character in context: ‘Pink Pony Club’ is the turning point in his career, the moment when Ran decides to track his project towards the representation of his queer identity.
Roan writes ‘Pink Pony Club’ after visiting a queer club of his town, Springfield, in Missuri, who really was “fuchsia painted.” In the letter, Roan examines the tension between his conservative origin (he lives in Tennessee, his mother does not want to move to Los Angeles) and his need for liberation, attending that club where “boys and girls can be queens every day.”
The production of ‘Pink Pony Club’, between the Power Pop and the Synth-Pop, focuses on a Nigro Dan who at the time of launching this song had not yet published his first success, ‘Drivers License’, the single debut of Olivia Rodrigo. As soon as in his career, Roan already knew that “in heels, on stage, it is where my site is.”
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