I just want to know where Chappell’s PR person/ the record label’s PR is. There just so much stating and restating and correcting going on. There’s the ‘stop stalking me videos’, two major profiles, canceling concerts to perform on the MTV Awards and now cancelling another festival. I am not her target, so I’m just observing the discourse. But doesn’t EVERYONE know that literally the phrase “ on both sides” is distinctly Trumpian? And that no matter how many other quotes she makes, repeatedly saying “both sides” is going to get her bad PR?
You can criticize Taylor for being too measured and calculating for the best effect (the Easter eggs are exhausting in their own way) but i think Chappell would benefit from professional career guidance and am surprised the label hasn’t stepped in yet.
I mean, the answer to “Where is Chappell’s PR person?”, the answer is “Clearly helping her craft her second comment to Rolling Stone about Harris’s ‘historic nomination’, and otherwise struggling to gain Chappell’s trust and attention.”
But that’s basically Chappell Roan’s issue right now— she’s become famous enough to NEED the machine, but she does not want to be part of it. She wants to go thrift shopping like she used to, she wants to be able communicate authentically with her fans like she used to. And truly, I do not blame her for assuming that someone with such an extensive track record of leftist action could say “Both sides have problems” and have folks understand it as “Neither side is offering enough” rather than “Hmm, tough to choose between these two, I’m just twiddling my thumbs in the middle.” Like, I'll doubt she'll make the mistake again, but I think her expectation that she'd be understood as she intended is not unreasonable even if it is, given the media landscape, naive.
Well said as always, Margaret
I just want to know where Chappell’s PR person/ the record label’s PR is. There just so much stating and restating and correcting going on. There’s the ‘stop stalking me videos’, two major profiles, canceling concerts to perform on the MTV Awards and now cancelling another festival. I am not her target, so I’m just observing the discourse. But doesn’t EVERYONE know that literally the phrase “ on both sides” is distinctly Trumpian? And that no matter how many other quotes she makes, repeatedly saying “both sides” is going to get her bad PR?
You can criticize Taylor for being too measured and calculating for the best effect (the Easter eggs are exhausting in their own way) but i think Chappell would benefit from professional career guidance and am surprised the label hasn’t stepped in yet.
I mean, the answer to “Where is Chappell’s PR person?”, the answer is “Clearly helping her craft her second comment to Rolling Stone about Harris’s ‘historic nomination’, and otherwise struggling to gain Chappell’s trust and attention.”
But that’s basically Chappell Roan’s issue right now— she’s become famous enough to NEED the machine, but she does not want to be part of it. She wants to go thrift shopping like she used to, she wants to be able communicate authentically with her fans like she used to. And truly, I do not blame her for assuming that someone with such an extensive track record of leftist action could say “Both sides have problems” and have folks understand it as “Neither side is offering enough” rather than “Hmm, tough to choose between these two, I’m just twiddling my thumbs in the middle.” Like, I'll doubt she'll make the mistake again, but I think her expectation that she'd be understood as she intended is not unreasonable even if it is, given the media landscape, naive.