Rachel Chinouriri Talks New Music, Working with Sabrina Carpenter & Adele’s Support: ‘It’s Mental!’

On time 1 of All Things Go NYC (Sept. 26), buzzy English pop-rocker Rachel Chinouriri delivered 1 of those peculiar sets that convinced everyone successful Queens’ Forest Hills Stadium that she’s the adjacent large thing.

Playing a smattering of songs crossed a half-hour acceptable – respective of which were from her 2024 breakthrough debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events — Chinouriri commanded the signifier with a calm self-assuredness that she occasionally dropped for vivacious bursts of energy. From starring dance-a-longs to “23:42” to getting the full venue to rise its hands during the “All I Ever Asked” chorus, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter was 1 of the aboriginal winners of this year’s NYC staging of All Things Go. Near the extremity of her set, Chinouriri played 1 of her newest songs, a sweet, indie-pop ode to her fellow titled “Can We Talk About Isaac?”

“Isaac is successful New York for the archetypal clip ever, and I’ve ever had a imaginativeness of him moving retired with a tambourine,” Chinouriri tells Billboard backstage aft her set. “We didn’t person a tambourine, truthful I was similar ‘Come out, anyway,’ and Amira, my circuit manager, said she’d propulsion him…. truthful helium was forced onstage. [Laughs]. I deliberation helium deserves his moment, he’s inspired immoderate songs!”

“Can We Talk About Isaac?” appears connected Chinouriri’s Little House EP, which she released this outpouring (April 5). The EP arrived the time aft Chinouriri concluded her stint arsenic an opener for the archetypal European limb of Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet Tour. With Carpenter acceptable to bring that circuit backmost connected the roadworthy this autumn — successful enactment of her latest Billboard 200 chart-topper, Man’s Best Friend — Chinouriri already has an thought of which caller opus she’d similar to remix. “‘Sugar Talking,'” she says without hesitation. “It’s undefeated, it needs to beryllium No. 1.”

Alongside Carpenter, Chinouriri besides named Pinkpantheress and Hayley Williams arsenic artists she’d similar to collaborate with this year. Of course, Chinouriri is nary alien to receiving emotion from popular superstars; Adele popped retired to her L.A. amusement successful June and sent her flowers to observe her archetypal 2 Brit Awards nominations. “It’s intelligence due to the fact that she feels similar this magical entity,” Chinouriri jokes. “I’ve not met her, truthful I conscionable privation to beryllium with her and beryllium like, ‘Who connected Earth showed you my songs? How did this happen?’ But I emotion that she’s a South London girly and consciousness precise grateful to person her support.”

As she continues to prep her follow-up to What a Devastating Turn of Events, Chinouriri remains focused connected lifting different Black girls successful the indie and alternate scenes arsenic her prima rises. “We request much [Black girls successful these spaces]. It’s not acceptable that my lone different Black indie counterpart, Cat Burns, went to my school,” she stresses. “I can’t hold until I&rsq...