Chappell Roan says her next album could take “at least five years to write”

The midwest princess just released her long-awaited single “The Subway” on August 1.

After Chappell Roan performed “The Subway” at 2024 Gov Ball, fans waited over a year for its official release – and the singer just revealed that a new album could take over five years to complete.

The singer’s Grammy-nominated 2023 debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, became a cultural sensation after the massive success of her 2024 single “Good Luck, Babe!”. In an interview with Vogue, Roan said that the project’s follow-up “doesn’t exist yet.”

“It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next. I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out,” Roan said.

On August 1, Roan released the studio version of “The Subway” and its accompanying music video after pushing the release date back from April. “Thank you for sticking it out for a whole year. It was worth it to make sure everything was absolutely right,” she wrote in an Instagram post.

For Roan, time is a key part of the songwriting process. “I don’t think I make good music whenever I force myself to do anything,” she told Vogue. “I see some comments sometimes, like, ‘She’s everywhere except that damn studio.’ Even if I was in the studio 12 hours a day, every single day, that does not mean that you would get an album any faster.”

This fall, Roan will travel to New York, Kansas City, and Pasadena for her “Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things” pop-up shows in September and October. In march she released her queer country-pop single “The Giver.”