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Chappell Roan review – a super graphic ultra modern showbiz star
The slow-burn breakout US star, in one of her last small-venue shows, delivers a show packed with witty queer energy, pulsating pop and even a torch song or two
Charli XCX may have inaugurated a Brat summer, but Chappell Roan picked up that lime-green sequined baton and tossed it sky high, celebrating the liberation in hedonistic femme fun. Kayleigh Rose Amstutz was signed as a teenager, then dropped by Atlantic Records during the pandemic – even after she had released the rallying queer party anthem Pink Pony Club, which subsequently grew into her calling card. But for all her super-modern energy and TikTok nous, she is also a deeply old-fashioned entertainer, with waltz-time ballads punctuating the hot-to-trot party, and bravura held notes alongside the takedowns of 21st-century situationships.
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