CHAPPELL ROAN BIOGRAPHY
The Midwest Princess Her Unlikely, Unstoppable RiseBy Marcus J. Holloway
Length3h 24m
About this audiobook
She was dropped by her label at twenty two. She was working a coffee counter in her hometown. She gave herself exactly one year to make it work, or walk away from music for good.
Four years later, she stood on a Grammy stage and told the entire music industry it owed its artists more.
Chappell Roan’s rise looks, from the outside, like the kind of overnight success that happens once in a generation, a viral single, a record breaking festival summer, a Best New Artist win. This book tells the story the headlines left out: the decade of choir practice, piano lessons, a major label deal signed at seventeen, a shelved single, and a public rejection that sent her back to Missouri with nothing but a coffee shop job and one song she still believed in.
THE MIDWEST PRINCESS traces the full, unfiltered arc of Kayleigh Amstutz’s transformation into Chappell Roan: the small town, church going upbringing that shaped both her voice and the queer identity she would later build an entire artistic language around. The songwriting partnership that finally unlocked her sound. The bipolar II diagnosis she faced in the same year she rebuilt her career from nothing. The viral Tiny Desk performance, the record shattering festival crowds, and the single that finally, after four years of waiting, made her a household name.
It also tells the harder story: the stalking and boundary violations she called out publicly at the height of her fame, the festival dates she canceled to protect her own health, and the Grammy speech that turned a career highlight into a direct challenge to the labels that build careers like hers and so often fail to protect the artists living them.
This is not a fan magazine puff piece. It is a fully sourced, richly detailed account of exactly what it costs, and what it takes, to go from a small Missouri town to one of the defining pop stars of a generation, built entirely from public reporting and Roan’s own words.
If you have ever wanted the real story behind the pink wig and the pony club, the years of rejection before the record breaking rise, and the mental health and industry battles fought in plain public view, THE MIDWEST PRINCESS is the book you have been waiting for.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Other, Psychology
Length3 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
28Chapter Twenty-Three: Best New Artist
2Foreword
29Chapter Twenty-Four: VMAs and Beyond
3Acknowledgements
30Chapter Twenty-Five: The Subway
4A Note on This Edition
31Chapter Twenty-Six: Advocacy
5Introduction
32Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Persona and the Person
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6Chapter One: A Small Town Voice
33Chapter Twenty-Eight: Legacy in Progress
7Chapter Two: The Piano and the Choir
34Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Camp and Drag Tradition She Draws From
8Chapter Three: Interlochen and Die Young
35Chapter Thirty: Midwest Princess: Small Town America in Pop Music
9Chapter Four: Signed at Seventeen
36Chapter Thirty-One: The Streaming Era Slow Build
10Chapter Five: Becoming Chappell Roan
37Chapter Thirty-Two: Mental Health in the Modern Music Industry
11Chapter Six: Los Angeles and Dan Nigro
38Chapter Thirty-Three: The Artists’ Rights Movement and Her Place In It
12Chapter Seven: Pink Pony Club
39Chapter Thirty-Four: Critical Reception and Cultural Conversation
13Chapter Eight: Dropped
40Chapter Thirty-Five: Peers and the New Pop Landscape
14Chapter Nine: One Year to Make It
41Chapter Thirty-Six: The Business Behind a Breakout Year
15Chapter Ten: Naked in Manhattan, My Kink Is Karma
42Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fan Culture and the Modern Stan Economy
16Chapter Eleven: The Diagnosis
43Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Songs Themselves
17Chapter Twelve: First Headline, First Big Support Slot
44Chapter Thirty-Nine: What Her Rise Suggests About the Industry Ahead
18Chapter Thirteen: Building the Album
45Chapter Forty: Willard to the World
19Chapter Fourteen: The Midwest Princess Tour
46Appendix A: A Chappell Roan Timeline
20Chapter Fifteen: Opening for Guts
47Appendix B: Selected Discography
21Chapter Sixteen: Tiny Desk
48Appendix C: Selected Awards and Nominations
22Chapter Seventeen: Good Luck, Babe!
49Appendix D: A Note on Sources and Methodology
23Chapter Eighteen: Coachella
50Appendix E: Reading Group Discussion Questions
24Chapter Nineteen: Record Crowds
51Appendix F: Further Listening
25Chapter Twenty: The Cost of Visibility
52Appendix G: A Glossary of Terms
26Chapter Twenty-One: All Things Go and Cancellations
53Appendix H: Chappell Roan by the Numbers
27Chapter Twenty-Two: Six Nominations
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