When in 2018 Alanis Morissette cut his long mane, many of his fans reacted like Britney el-Año-who-he-loca-loca. Under his hair, a bald lady did not emerge, crazy and dangerous, as Britney’s sensational press described, but a 43 -year -old “old woman”. This Rapunzel Syndrome is present in the new Chappell Roan video clip, who shares with Alanis more than an iconic hair.
In ‘The Subway’, Chappell appears as an extreme version of the biblical Lilith, a kind of New York Lady Godiva that persecutes the ghost, also melenudo, of a broken love. The video plays with hair as a metaphor for a heavy emotional load, the physical representation of a mood. A hair that prevents seeing clearly, that hinders, gets dirty, tangles and is trapped at the door of a taxi like the protagonist in her own memories.
Chappell crawls through life and climbs by the infinite green hair of his beloved, evoking the story of the Grimm brothers, until he reaches a catharsis, a revelation represented as an explosion of dance and sensuality in an environment as gray as the subway. In the end, while shouting “She’s Got Away,” Chappell appears for the first time with short hair. Released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolfavd5ixi
