Although Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish have lately been outspoken about their help for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Chappell Roan is holding off on making an endorsement forward of the 2024 presidential election.
The pop star, who’s rocketed to fame over the previous few months, lately instructed The Guardian that she doesn’t “feel pressured to endorse someone.”
“I have so many issues with our government in every way,” she mentioned. “There are so many things that I would want to change. So I don’t feel pressured to endorse someone. There’s problems on both sides. I encourage people to use your critical thinking skills, use your vote — vote small, vote for what’s going on in your city.”
Roan mentioned that her most essential concern is “trans rights,” including “They cannot have cis people making decisions for trans people, period.”
The Harris marketing campaign beforehand shared a meme seemingly impressed by Roan’s “Femininomenon” music. And a Harris-Walz marketing campaign baseball cap bears a placing resemblance to a few of Roan’s merch.
Roan beforehand mentioned that she declined an invite to carry out at a White Home Delight occasion, saying in the course of the Governors Ball pageant in New York, “We want liberty, justice and freedom for all. When you do that, that’s when I’ll come.”
When some followers misconstrued her lack of attendance, due to her disagreement with quite a few the Biden administration’s positions, as help for Republicans and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Roan instructed Rolling Stone earlier this month, “It is not so black and white that you hate one and you like the other. No matter how you say it, people are still going to be pissed for fucking some reason. I’m not going to go to the White House because I am not going to be a monkey for Pride.”
She added to Rolling Stone of her political beliefs, “Right now, it’s more important than ever to use your vote, and I will do whatever it takes to protect people’s civil rights, especially the LGBTQ+ community. … I feel lucky to be alive during an incredibly historical time period when a woman of color is a presidential nominee.”
Nonetheless, Roan is utilizing her success to help causes she believes in. Roan has been donating a portion of her live performance ticket gross sales to the Kaleidoscope Belief U.Ok. LGBTQ charity, and, in accordance to The Guardian, the merch stand at her live shows sells signed risograph prints for 100 kilos every, with proceeds going towards assist for Palestine.
Of the prints, Roan mentioned, “It’s just my duty to help send resources to a community that is absolutely being destroyed.”
Roan lately made headlines for being outspoken about her private boundaries on social media. And on the 2024 MTV VMAs, earlier this month, she snapped at a photographer who had been shouting at her.
“I’m very turned off by the celebrity of it all,” she instructed The Guardian. “Some girls have been in this so long that they’re used to that, but I’m not that girl. I’m not gonna be a sweetie pie to a man who’s telling me to shut the fuck up.”
Within the wake of some aggressive fan incidents, together with an expertise with a stalker, which prompted her feedback about boundaries, Roan says she’s in “therapy twice a week” and was lately recognized with extreme melancholy.
“I went to a psychiatrist last week because I was like, I don’t know what’s going on,” Roan instructed The Guardian. “She diagnosed me with severe depression — which I didn’t think I had because I’m not actually sad. But I have every symptom of someone who’s severely depressed.”
