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“Good Luck, Babe!” – On Chappell Roan and the Bittersweetness of Progress
Dyan Valdés
I’m going through a breakup. And I’m listening to Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” on repeat.
“Good Luck, Babe!” is the #1 tune on Spotify right now. For the few of you who haven’t heard the song, Chappell, a proudly out lesbian, sings about a doomed affair with a closeted miss who jerks her around and ultimately retreats into the apparent safety of heteronormativity, waking up next to her dull husband with regret after rejecting queer love. The ballad is a brilliant pop gem, and it is gay as fuck.
This was my first gender non-conforming relationship in 20 years. For some reason, I abandoned my lesbian self in the early 2000s and retreated into the apparent safety of heteronormativity (although as anyone who has dated or even been in the vicinity of a straight male knows, heterosexuality is not safe at all). So when I fell firm for a girl again, after all this moment, and she seemed to maybe like me support, I was all in.
It was her first female homosexual relationship, which, along with her being six years younger than me, meant that her entire trial with
Review: 'Good Luck Babe!' is a mini masterpiece
Chappell Roan hits gold again with her latest unattached "Good Luck, Babe!" released on April 5. The ballad follows a homosexual relationships downfall and coming to terms with your hold identity, in your own ways.
Background
This is Roan's first free since her debut album last year, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.” Roan wrote the anthem with Daniel Nigro and Justin Tranter. The song references wishing good luck to someone who is simply denying fate.
“I needed to write a anthem about a usual situationship within lgbtq+ relationships — where someone is struggling with coming to terms with themselves. It’s a lyric about wishing adequately to someone who is avoidant of their true feelings,” Chappell said in a written statement.
Overview
This song screams 80s gay pop, with Roan playing with vocal range flawlessly throughout the ballad. The lyrics throughout find a situationship where one person is trying to combat their feelings by avoiding actual world. Roan sings “You can a hundred boys in bars, shoot another shot, try to end the feeling,” but throughout the tune, it paints the story of wishing someone the top, even when th
Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” speaks to the club divas and the sexually repressed
Over the last six months, Chappell Roan has experienced a bold and rapid rise to stardom, asserting her dominance as a modern mainstay in the realm of pop music. Unashamed in addressing themes of queer identity, sex, and femininity, the larger-than-life, lipstick-stained pop star has become the darling of the most prestigious music festival circuits and horny Twitter users alike. Roan took no time to rest after stepping off the opening stage of Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS tour: on April 5, she swapped her typical drag makeup and glittery unitards for a prosthetic pig nose to announce modern single “Good Luck, Babe!”.
“Good Luck, Babe!” soars from the first several notes; Roan sarcastically muses that “It’s fine, / it’s cool” atop a pulsing 80s synth beat that draws comparisons to Madonna’s Like a Virgin (1984). Roan is no stranger to the tumultuous “situationship,” as she previously lamented a partner who will invite her to meet their parents but won’t deem the relationship official in the biting slow ballad, “Casual.” This time, she’s addressing a nebulous woman who toes the line between fr
Trying to find a queer song of the summer not from rising superstar Chappell Roan? Skillfully, good luck, babe.
The American singer has absolutely exploded this spring following a meteoric rise that includes a Tiny Desk concert and a massive arrange of Coachella appearances. Her album that dropped in the Fall 2023, The Rise and Plummet of a Midwest Princess, reached a new peak of #16 on this week’s Billboard 200, and her available “Good Luck, Babe!” just became her first-ever Top 40 hit. Log on to TikTok and you’ll see everyone from cats to Kermit the Frog dancing along to her other anthem “Hot To Go.” She is a, well, femininomenon.
But is that momentum enough to crown Chappell Roan and “Good Luck, Babe!” as our queer lyric of the summer? Or even just the song of the summer, complete stop?
Or could another artist still construct a run for it?
The song of the summer is a debate held every year amongst broader culture, and it is here that I reflect we make a vital distinction between the song of the summer, and the queer tune of the summer. Sometimes the two overlap: think of “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX in 2014 or Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” in 2012. These tracks we