Chappell Roan Belts: “Good Luck, Babe!” After a Hysterical Tonight Show Interview
To those unfamiliar with pop singer Chappell Roan, it may appear that she is experiencing overnight success—bbut tell that to the girl in a photo she shared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on June 20 (and to those of us who have loved her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, since its 2023 release).
“I had no money, and I was working at a doughnut shop,” Roan said to Jimmy Fallon at the beginning of her funny interview, presenting a photo of the singer alone at a piano on a little stage.
Roan made her Tonight Show debut weeks after her big Governor’s Ball performance in June, and she gave a magical, feather-festooned performance of her new single “Good Luck, Babe!” after her talk with Fallon. So Fallon asked her, “How does it feel to be catapulted to pop stardom?”
“It feels like I was right all along,” Roan said. “I mean, I felt like I had already made it when people came to my concert a few years ago. It was like, ‘People came?!’ Everything else has just been the icing on top.”
Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” performance was undoubtedly a nice treat for the audience.
Chappell Roan informs Jimmy Fallon about Sasha Colby.
“You said something at Coachella that I loved,” Fallon told Roan. “You said, ‘I’m Chappell Roan, and I’m your favorite artists’ favorite artist.”
“That was a reference to Sasha Colby,” Roan revealed, adding, “There’s gay people here” in response to the audience’s shouts. Colby, a breakout drag star who won Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is famous for stating, “I’m your favorite drag queens’ favorite drag queen.”
“It just hit me through the heart,” she told Fallon. “And so I was like, ‘I hope Sasha Colby one day watches me, and that’s why I said it.'”
Roan got her dream when Colby uploaded the Tonight Show clip to her Instagram stories hours later.
Watch Roan’s whole interview above.
Chappell Roan sings “Good Luck, Babe!” on the Tonight Show.
On June 10, Roan performed her smash track at Studio 6B while dressed entirely in feathers.
“We pull from drag, horror movies, burlesque, and theater,” Roan said to Fallon about the styles she and her stylist, Genesis Webb, create. “I enjoy appearing both attractive and terrifying. Or, say, lovely and tacky. Alternatively, it is not visually appealing! “I love that as well,” she said.
Roan’s stage set was a fairytale vision, with her singing in front of a gorgeous swan throne.
