Even when life grabs her by the hair and drags her ahead, Chappell Roan simply can’t transfer on within the music video for “The Subway.”
Launched on Friday (Aug. 1) hours after the music dropped the evening prior, the Amber Grace Johnson-directed visible finds the pop star haunted by an ex, as represented by an extended practice of hair Roan drags behind her by means of New York Metropolis. At the same time as her tresses get longer and longer, trapping items of rubbish and rats of their tangles, the Missouri native simply can’t reduce it off as she searches the town for her green-haired one who bought away.
That’s, till the top of the video, which reveals Roan sporting a symbolic pink bob as she belts out the cathartic outro: “She’s bought, she’s bought a manner/ She’s bought a manner, she’s bought a manner/ And he or she bought, she bought away/ She bought away, she bought away.”
The music and visible come greater than a yr after the Grammy winner first debuted “The Subway” reside at her 2024 Governors Ball set, after which she started incorporating it into her reside performances. “I’m very happy with this music & what a journey she has been on,” Roan wrote on Instagram after the observe dropped Thursday (July 31). “I def ripped my hair out attempting to determine the puzzle of how this music ought to really feel musically and visually and emotionally, fortunately there are some to spare. Thanks for sticking it out for a complete yr. It was price it to verify all the pieces was completely proper.”
Following the discharge of “The Subway” and, earlier than that, “The Giver,” Roan is now gearing as much as work on her hotly anticipated sophomore album. Earlier than she does, nonetheless, the star will play a handful of pop-up reveals in Los Angeles, Kansas Metropolis and New York Metropolis, as announced within the final week of July.
Watch Roan’s “The Subway” music video above.