She’s received a means of getting followers puffed up for her new tune. Two days forward of the long-awaited launch of “The Subway,” Chappell Roan has dropped a trailer for its accompanying music video.
Sharing a snippet of the teaser on Instagram and dropping the complete clip on her YouTube, the pop star gave followers their first style of what the ballad’s visible will entail on Wednesday (July 30). With Roan’s voice faintly audible within the distance, the dreamy video reveals the Missouri native crawling on the ground of a darkish subway automobile full of girls dancing underneath strobe lights, making the practice appear extra like a membership than a mode of group transit.
It then cuts to Roan with impossibly lengthy hair, quietly consuming pizza as she sits on the sting of what seems to be the fountain in Washington Sq. Park in New York Metropolis. The teaser then flashes to a close-up of Roan driving one other subway automobile, wanting round her for somebody she will’t appear to search out.
The trailer comes simply two days after the Missouri native introduced that she’d be releasing “The Subway,” one thing followers have been ready for since she first debuted the monitor throughout her 2024 Gov Ball set. The tune arrives Thursday (July 31) at 8 p.m. ET, whereas the video will arrive on Friday (Aug. 1).
Roan hasn’t dropped a brand new tune since “The Giver” earlier this 12 months, which adopted 2024 breakout single “Good Luck, Babe!” Listeners have been keen for brand new music ever since her 2023 debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, began rising on the charts over a 12 months in the past.
The star, nonetheless, is taking her time crafting her subsequent LP. Whereas announcing plans to play a collection of pop-up reveals later this 12 months, Roan confirmed that there’s nonetheless a lot work to be accomplished on her sophomore effort, writing that she “wished the prospect to do one thing particular earlier than going away to write down the following album.”
See a clip of Roan’s “The Subway” trailer under.