First time watching Chappell Roan LIVE on SNL - Pink Pony Club - Reaction & analysis

[@andrewscanlon7823]

I've been watching SNL for longer than Chappel has been alive and I can't remember the crowd singing along like that. She's magic

[@alisong826]

Came to say this ❤

[@ericryanyawl9401]

An SNL audience NEVER sings that hard to a song. They love her.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

That stage is notorious for bad sound quality (at least live vs what goes over mikes to the viewing audience). Plus random shiate audiences who won a ticket lottery with no idea of the guests. So for both of those reasons an audience singing along is... very unusual.

[@saraghhh]

There were Chappell fans lined up to get into the SNL taping, so that audience was absolutely filled with her fans.

[@handlesareobnoxious]

Yes, that is the audience singing. She calls on the audience to sing that final part of the song at every show.

[@haileybraun6170]

people were really doubting this, but i think because she gives the audience the mic at the same part of the song everytime she performs it live snl would have foreknowledge on when to turn the audience mics on. i really think its the actual audience

[@handlesareobnoxious]

@@haileybraun6170 I'd heard the audience has some level of a head's up during sound checks pre-show. Not sure tho.

[@annafortuna5554]

@@handlesareobnoxious I mean they for sure had a heads-up. It doesn’t make for a good show if the audience didn’t participate when they’re asked to 😅 But also, these fans are Chappell fans, so they definitely don’t need to be reminded about it. Some people have shared in Reddit about their experience about this particular show and have confirmed that the whole audience were singing loudly.

[@ChappellsDaughter]

No self-control, me sees Chappell Roan, me clicks 🧌

[@amejia0]

@@ChappellsDaughter you're here!

[@beepboopboodle]

I love how emotional people get when watching Chappell perform. She really is so inspiring - her talent, of course, but also her boundary-setting, her authentic vulnerability, how much she is truly herself...

[@HegeOfficial]

This! She feels like a breath of fresh air in the industry ❤

[@bartlebyscrivener2980]

@HegeOfficial This was the first vid of yours I've seen, I don't hang out at individual reactors' sites because I'm a Chappell Roan video tramp. I've seen many reaction vids now, and it's often a joyous thing because people are so surprised at and thrilled by what they experience. IDK if you ever do full album reactions, but even if you haven't done any before, you should do The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. You will not regret it. (And you'll attract a lot of views too.) It's a masterpiece... "No skips" is such a understatement it's an insult. And a 14 song rollercoaster ride. Empathetic people who follow the narratives/read the lyrics too... Chappell's heavily about narrative... often do get hit hard in the feels. But it's worth it.

[@Cjinla777]

“It’s giving me hope that music is still fun and enjoyable” was my first thought when I first saw Chappell’s NPR tiny desk. Highly recommend that if you haven’t seen it-you can hear pretty much every aspect of her voice, backing vocals and the band

[@HegeOfficial]

I haven't ☺️ Thanks for recommending!

[@ambivalent3995]

« why am I getting emotional » that’s so real she really has this effect on people😭 I would suggest for you to watch her tiny desk performance it is absolutely incredible!💛 thank you for this great reaction!

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you for watching and for the recommendation ☺️ I love Tiny Desk performances in general and look forward to hear hers!

[@marcellakilgarriff]

She only actually started vocal training at the end of 2022! Pink Pony Club didn't get her dropped from the label per se but they really didn't get the vision and when covid came they used it as an opportunity to drop a lot of smaller artists like Chappell as they weren't making enough money.

[@HegeOfficial]

Ah that makes more sense ☺️ I thought a ban sounded a tad dramatic haha! Thanks for clarifying!

[@dlweiss]

Re: the audience singing along so confidently, I think it probably helps that this song was one of her FIRST big hits 4 years ago, and so it's one of the most familiar songs for many of her fans. :)

[@jabecker21]

That’s the audience singing! If you want to hear a loud audience you need to listen to her performance of this song at the Lollapalooza or Outside Lands festivals.

[@Marie78173]

Yeah it's insane at festivals

[@ForeverrTimeless]

It was the actual audience, I was there also singing lol

[@HegeOfficial]

Omg lucky!! 😍

[@Nathan-yk2le]

On one of her live sets (ACL?) she dedicated a song to the theater teacher who kicked her out for being too dramatic. lol

[@xlulinax]

a very genuine reaction, loved it!! chappell is a treasure, and as you said, it gives hope for the mainstream music to still being fun. I hope you’ll react more of her

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you so much! 🩷 I truly love everything I've learned about her and her fans so far, and definitely will do more reactions to her performances.

[@sophiatesch3348]

This type of strong reaction and deep feeling of hope is actually quite common when listening to Chappell Roan for the first time❤🎉It’s fun to be in the Pink Pony Club 🤠🦄

[@jevonkasitch9991]

It was the audience. Not a prerecord. Chappell has been approaching Freddie Mercury levels in her ability to motivate her audiences to participate. At her Austin City Limits Week One festival. She had 100K+ people singing Pink Pony Club and it could be heard 10 miles away. She has the Hot to Go Dance which there is footage of 10's of thousands of people doing at once. She is very very much a live performer at heart and feeds off her audiences, and it's the part of her job that she loves the most. And she has had no formal vocal training. She is self taught.

[@bartlebyscrivener2980]

@jevonkasitch9991 You know you're my go-to guy for much chappellania, but I think Lolla's own estimate for the crowd watching Chappell -- trying to anyway -- was approx 80,000. And that 110,000 was either the total no. of people there any time Sat. + Sun., or maybe just any time Sunday.

[@jevonkasitch9991]

@@bartlebyscrivener2980 I'll say you are probably right. I was using some of the early estimates and never went back and checked. Good catch.

[@bufordt.justice6741]

snl has been on since about 75 and its live as its saturday night live and has always had an audience and so they are singing to this song and Ms. Roan is FANTASTIC

[@mickiea6598]

I love her more than I can possibly express🎉🎉

[@annette0715]

🩷🩷 So good to see you back, Hege! 🥰 Also, sorry for the late watch. Loved this reaction video. I too had goosebumps. It’s actually my first time watching a Chappel Roan live performance. So good 👏🏻 I’ve only heard about her when Kelly Clarkson covered a few songs for Kellyoke and also raved about her. I then started listening to her album and became a fan. 💕

[@ChappellRoanCorner]

Very kind of you to check for pronouns too. She’s an out gay woman and wrote Pink Pony club about visiting a gay for the first time in West Hollywood and likened it to having a spiritual experience. She decided to write a song about this experience. 🎉

[@HegeOfficial]

Aw I love that background story! Thanks for sharing ❤️ I should have checked the pronouns before filming haha but I'm glad I didn't misgender anyone after all.

[@rachelnix4744]

🎠 I love it when technically trained people verify the wild vocal abilities of Chappell Roan. Excellent breakdown and if you haven't seen her Tiny Desk concert, it's a friggin' must!

[@brienmiller1005]

You can hear when they turn the audience mics on right before she says "sing it" and then how they turn them down after. Love your emotion.

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you ❤

[@ChappellRoanCorner]

Thanks for this reaction!! 🎉

[@HegeOfficial]

Thanks for watching! ☺️

[@BansheePurple]

Gosh I love her voice so much!! Chappell is amazing and the way the crowd started singing gave me goosebumps too

[@DavidFernandezChoreographer]

First time in SNL! It's ok to be emotional hearing Chappell. Wellcome to the club. 😊

[@machdude3366]

Chappell is heavily she/her and her band is well within that wheelhouse. She is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+, but in her end, she is super Sapphic coded so she is super big on having a woman only band.

[@saraghhh]

I first heard her in the tiny desk concert she performed with NPR. The person she instantly reminded me of was Sarah Slean, a Canadian singer who isn’t really well known, but has a song called Sweet Ones that was big in 2001. She does VERY similar vibrato and vocal flips (if you love Chappell and haven’t heard Sarah Slean do yourself a favour and check her out). She was part of the small cabaret pop scene that emerged during that time. Her voice also reminds me of Dolores O’Riordan from The Cranberries, which I believe Chappell is a fan of. I would love to hear her talk more about her influences to see what she would consider her musical lineage! Love Chappell and am so glad to see that music can still be fun, camp, and extremely good.

[@HegeOfficial]

I have some singers to check out then ☺️ Thank you!

[@bartlebyscrivener2980]

@saraghhh Chappell loves the Cranberries. Elsewhere here in comments I list many of her influences. There's vid of her covering a Cranberries song. Chappell has long struggled with depression; she's bipolar type 2. Her 2017(?) EP is dark and emo-y. She made a conscious decision on writing Pink Pony Club in Feb 2019 to change directions, and made her specialty sparkley fun anthemic narrative pop. Took a few years to take off, but look at her now!

[@raymondbarry4196]

It was the actual audience and tickets are random lottery, you can't pick which host or which band - so to get the audience to react like that is amazing.

[@HegeOfficial]

that's really impressive!

[@KevinPlaysGuitar]

Yay, you're back in action! Miss you! I've heard this song before but didn't notice who sang it. This is a great live performance. Great reaction! Have an amazing week ahead! 💗💕💗💕

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you Kevin ❤️ and you too!!

[@alisong826]

Whoa! I love how you explain where her voice is 5:38 I’ve not had vocal training but went to piano lessons for nearly a decade, so I could understand & even tried/felt what you were explaining 🤗 hi from Texas!

[@alisong826]

🦄

[@HegeOfficial]

I'm so glad it made sense to you ☺️ Thank you so much for watching 🩷

[@euportiz]

YAYY, LOVE IT! U'r so nice to her, please react to more. i reaally enjoyed the way o analized. lots of love! a pink pony heart. 💖💖🦄🦄

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you so much 🩷 will definitely explore more Chappell!

[@mcmahonmr]

Every Chapell Roan performance makes me emotional! Saw her live at ACL and it was amazing! Welcome to the pink pony club! 🦄🙌🏾

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you, it seems like a fun and safe place to be 🩷

[@bartlebyscrivener2980]

Thank you for your reaction, I thought it was great. I appreciate also how you understand that we passionate followers of this newly-broken superstar can sometimes weary a little bit of having her most conspicuous influences repeatedly ticked off. Of course she has them -- as you said, no artist is ever without influences. Everybody in any field of endeavour, in fact, gets to start from the shoulders of those who preceded them. I had the pleasure of getting to hear the music of many of Chappell's important influences as they first hit. I have to say that, as great as they are, I was never nearly as transfixed by Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Alanis Morisette (a big one!), Gwen Stefani, Brandi Carlile (I esp. love Brandi's vocal flips too), Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Charli XCX -- any of them -- as I am by Chappell Roan. Other Chapell influences included Patsy Kline, Mama Cass and Michelle Phillips, Dolly Parton, Carole King (Chappell is an incredible balladeer, too, btw), Freddie Mercury, Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde, Delores Riordin, Britney Spears, and Mylie Cyrus. For me, Chappell's unexpected brilliance in songwriting, vocals, aesthetics and performance all four -- she has such ready access to her emotions as she performs! -- seem as if some kind of culmination of where pop music should have been headed all along. And I'd just had no awareness of that until February 15, 2024, when I first heard and saw her perform Red Wine Supernova on the Colbert show. My realization of what a special artist Chappell is has only grown throughout this year. See what you think, as you address her music more deeply.

[@veggiemonkie5041]

🩷im so happy Chappell exists

[@lisaswiontek482]

Really enjoyed your reaction and emotion. 💗

[@HegeOfficial]

So happy you did! Thank you 🩷

[@karenfriebel7680]

What a cool performance! And holy CRAP when the SNL audience kicked in? SUPER cool and they sounded amazing! Love a audience participation moment! I didn’t catch SNL last Saturday when she was on, I was still in a funk and trying to avoid TV! Thanks for calling my attention to this! They were having so much fun! 🙂

[@HegeOfficial]

Right?? She seems SO fun and the audience singing along so loudly seems like a testament to that ❤ I'm a new fan. Fully understand wanting to avoid the news over there for a while. Seeing Chappell and her fans gives me hope and I realize we are many people who want a kinder world 🩷

[@thenoellew]

4:50 I've been saying for months to everybody that I know that loves Chappell, that she has to have some sort of musical theater experience! Thank goodness, I'm not the only one lol. I hope that I get to see Chappell live someday, because PHEWW what a talented performer! I loved this performance so much. If you haven't watched it yet, her performance of The Giver on SNL was her debut of the song and it's soo campy, I love it so much. ***Edit: Pink Pony! From one theater kid to another: You're gonna love her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - I suggest to listen to it in track order, it's a narrative album (which is my favorite lol). I also highly recommend Remi Wolf and her album Big Ideas - it just barely took my 'favorite album of the year' spot from Chappell's album. Big Ideas is also a narrative album, so I suggest the same listening experience as Chappell's album. Remi is like if funky-rock-pop-disco was a genre

[@Henry3NYC]

I can’t find pink or a pony in my emojis within the app. Watched all the way thru and got the same chills you did. LOVE HER!

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you so much for watching 🩷 I love everything I've learned about her so far. New fan! ☺️

[@danmcdonald3723]

I have seen accusations that that's an audio track of the audience singing, but as others have noted, in nearly every performance I've seen her doing this number, she throws that mic out and the audience does sing. It's different in every venue the way the audience sounds depending on whether it's a club or open air, how many people are there. It seems like a genuine thing that her audiences always do, and they packed that SNL audience that night. 💖🎠🌺

[@amejia0]

I also get emotional when listening to chapell. She is a breath of fresh air in this world

[@HegeOfficial]

This! A breath of fresh air is exactly what she feels like 🩷

[@derekparks6427]

Hege’s back on KZbin! Yay!

[@A-St.George_the_Dragon]

I wondered about the audience participation too, but she got them involved straight after the 'Saturday' lyric and I think it's real. No doubt they warmed up the audience to do it at soundcheck/rehersal, with the stage managers primed to bring up and down the theatre mics just at the right times. Only an audience member that night can really confirm, but CR does like a singalong 😊

[@erikc5403]

She usually asks the audience in her live performances to sing that part of the song, sort of like a signature. So I assume it’s the audience plus the backup vocalists.

[@goblin-alley]

oh, that is definitely the audience!

[@cristalsanderson9058]

🦄Loved your reaction! You just got a new subscriber 💖

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you so much ☺️🩷!!

[@MusicCityMere]

Watched to the end, great reaction!

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you so much! 🩷

[@rhettmitchell]

Welcome back!! 🫶🏼😇 so excited to hear more from you again! 🩷🦄 I’d love to see you react to her new song she also sang on SNL “The Giver”. And another newer, unreleased song “The Subway” sang at Lollapalooza: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH-vq6SifbiMrJYsi=_eddivvl8I0IgBYa Both of them are absolute bangers, and she always sings the HELL out of The Subway

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you!! 🩷 And for the recommendations too! There will definitely be more Chappell content on here soon ☺️

[@corydwagner]

You should listen to her Pink Pony Club performance at week two of Austin City Limits Music Festival. The crowd was singing so loud you could probably hear them a mile away.

[@mcmahonmr]

I was there live in the audience! 🦄

[@victorbradshaw7359]

Great job ty I had heard about her but I am glad that my first listen was with you ty

[@HegeOfficial]

Thanks for learning more about her with me ☺️!

[@victorbradshaw7359]

@HegeOfficial I'm always around somewhere Hege remember that I quit making a lot of comments but I'm glad you introduced me to her ty

[@robbpowell194]

Welcome back..🍁

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you ☺️

[@Marie78173]

it is the audience, she always let the audience sing at her shows, look up her festivals it's insane

[@jabecker21]

Amazing reaction! You should definitely check out her Tiny Desk concert. I think it’s one of the greatest live performances of all time. (Not to build it up too much!)

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you! 🩷 Her Tiny Desk is definitely on my radar, I love seeing artists in that format! Thanks for recommending ☺️

[@ryankrauss5622]

💕The reason you’re getting emotional is the same reason I am. I love typical girl pop music like Sabrina carpenter, Billie eilish, Taylor swift etc but she breaks the mold. Like Billie eilish she differentiates her vocal range in a similar way but on on the different end of the spectrum. Sure we love all of them but we’re craving something different to shake it up a little and we’ve found it with Chappell (Kayleigh )and Billie and that’s the reason they’re so popular💗

[@ChappellsDaughter]

🦄🩷 :')) great reaction btw.

[@HegeOfficial]

Thank you so much 🩷!!

[@mickiea6598]

💖

[@dela3520]

🦄

[@Александр-о7й7у]

Hege красотка!

[@biannaleamalioai3114]

❤🐬🦄

[@whitenoisesss]

YOU JUST GOT ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER. Please react to more CHAPPELL ROAN. ♥️

[@silentwhisp4r670]

🦄🦄🦄

[@fuerchtnix1]

💛🧡❤💖🦄

[@MontassirAlkass]

❤✌🏻

[@raymondbarry4196]

🎠 💓

[@kei-te-pai]

[@mspeer]

Your accent kinda gives me Heidi Klum vibes, haha

[@Wiley_Coyote]

Affirmative. She's said in interviews she was a theater kid. You can also tell from her acting in the music videos with storylines. BTW: if you go through her entire album, she'll remind you of at least a dozen different artists. Being a chamaleon is part of her presentation. Stylistically, not the actual voice (which is aleays clearly her). They DID cheat a little with the audience. My understanding is that they had microphones set up beforehand pointed towards the audience. So there definitely was prep, and they definitely turned those mikes on and off at planned times. What I wonder about is the big cheer we hear when the guitar solo starts. If that was preplanned I mean. Its less loud than the audience singing, so those mikes are probably off and its coming through mikes on the stage instead.

[@HegeOfficial]

Thanks for this!! ☺️ I haven't watched her music videos yet, but I'm looking forward to!

[@rocheldavesaavedra8001]

🦄🏳️‍🌈

[@lizzytish1248]

💕🎠🪩

[@TheOtherAlexis]

Did anyone else notice the Dua Lipa dance move?! Was that on purpose?

[@bartlebyscrivener2980]

Dunno Dua's dance moves but Chappell does drop into her lyrics tributes to her influences and other pop girlies. In Red Wine Supernova "California King" is a nod to a Rihanna song. Same song, I contend the abrupt "Brigitte Bardot" is a shout-out to Chrissie Hynde's Message of Love. There's "that Lana song that makes you cry. "California"'s lyrics honor the Mamas and the Papas. There's a very Madonna Vogue couplet in Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl. And... same song?... there's a moment echoing Dua Lipa's "Hot. As. [the excepted F is left unsaid]". I recognize it from an early Dua hit, but don't remember its name. Recently read spec that in PPClub the way Chappell isolates the dramatic "Mama!" is an intentional homage to the way Freddie Mercury did it in Bohemian Rhapsody. Had never occurred to me, but, probably. Freddie is a huge inspiration to her. And there are other homages I'm forgetting. Lana Del Rey does that too. Some songs allude to music and musicians who preceded her.

[@karenfriebel7680]

PS 🦄

[@jamiesides306]

It's an actual audience... and that NEVER happens on SNL

[@victorbradshaw7359]

Great job ty I had heard about her but I am glad that my first listen was with you ty