Chappell Roan is going from Midwest Princess to Princess Rapunzel.
As captured in photos and videos snapped on the streets of New York City this week, the pop star — who headlined Primavera Sound in Barcelona last month — is currently working on a mystery video project in which she’ll appear with yards of extra hair. In pictures taken Monday, she filmed scenes while standing on a fire escape, draping her super-long red tresses over the railing to the ground below.
In more photos that surfaced Tuesday (July 7), Roan — now wearing an oversize suit but still sporting the absurd extensions in her tresses — shoots a sequence in which a taxi cab appears to drag her by the hair through the street.
It’s unclear what exactly the Missouri native is working on, but fans online are convinced that it’s a music video for “The Subway,” an unreleased song that Roan debuted more than a year ago at 2024’s Gov Ball festival. She has since played it a number of times at her live performances.
The singer last dropped music in March, with the country-tinged single “The Giver” debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It marked her first release since skyrocketing to fame (and a best new artist Grammy win) with breakthrough single “Good Luck, Babe!,” which followed her 2023 debut LP The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
See a photo of Roan shooting the taxi scenes of her mystery Rapunzel-esque project here.
