Chappell Roan Thanks Fans for ‘Sticking With Me’ Through ‘Really Hard’ Year at Triumphant NYC Homecoming Show

“We’re going to thatch you a dance,” Chappell Roan says, arsenic if there’s anyone successful the assemblage contiguous who inactive doesn’t cognize her infamous “Hot to Go!” choreography.

In reality, the assemblage of thousands astatine Saturday’s (Sept. 20) amusement astatine Forest Hills Stadium successful Queens, New York, hasn’t conscionable been waiting each nighttime for this — galore of them person been waiting respective months. It’s been rather immoderate clip since the Missouri autochthonal performed successful her location country, with the extremity of 2024 marking a peculiarly unsmooth play for her. In summation to canceling 2 stateside shows for intelligence wellness reasons, she faced onslaughts of backlash for everything from speaking retired astir predatory instrumentality behaviors to criticizing Kamala Harris amid the statesmanlike race, starring to her mostly stepping backmost from the internet.

Now, a packed assemblage dotted with pinkish cowboy hats and Lady Liberty crowns — nods to Roan’s getup astatine the 2024 Governor’s Ball, 1 of the past times she performed successful New York — embraces her completely, each bump successful the roadworthy forgotten. Looking retired astatine a oversea of arms eagerly forming the shapes of the letters “H-O-T-T-O-G-O” (“I deliberation you get it,” she giggles, abandoning her creation tutorial aft 1 run-through), she looks stronger than ever, strutting astir the signifier successful a sexy Captain Hook-esque outfit without missing a enactment arsenic flames erupt down her.

Saturday’s performance is the archetypal of eight pop-up performances successful the U.S. that Roan has generously tacked onto her European Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour, and 1 of 4 dates slated for NYC. The setlist is afloat of high-octane numbers from her 2023 debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, with “Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl,” “Femininomenon,” “After Midnight,” “Naked successful Manhattan” (“Can you judge it? We’re successful New York!” she yells triumphantly midway through), “Guilty Pleasure” and “Casual” preceding “Hot to Go!,” arsenic good arsenic caller azygous “The Subway,” which precocious earned Roan her highest-ever highest connected the Billboard Hot 100 astatine No. 3.

Later successful the show, she writhes astir connected the signifier level portion covering Heart’s “Barracuda,” sensually serenades a mic basal topped with a blonde wig for the waltzy “Picture You,” enactment dances with her bandmates to March azygous “The Giver” and fills up the stadium with awesome precocious enactment aft precocious enactment during “Good Luck, Babe!,” the breakout deed that cata...