Chappell Roan Reveals Favorite Nicki Minaj Lyric & Attends Her First Paris Fashion Week
Chappell Roan is talking two of her favorite things while in Paris this week: fashion and music. More specifically on the latter front, she revealed her favorite lyric of all time (and it happens to be an iconic Nicki Minaj bar).
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While in the City of Light for Paris Fashion Week, the pop star modeled a couple of characteristically avant-garde outfits, including a silvery, textured dress — which she paired with dramatically winged eye makeup — for Rabanne’s runway show. In a clip posted to Vogue‘s Instagram Thursday (March 6), she showed off the look and chirped, “I’m at my first fashion show!”
“I don’t really look like me right now, which is kind of awesome,” she said of her look, which was designed by the brand of the hour, Rabanne. “I’m so excited!”
In another video shared by Dazed from Rick Owens’ showcase Thursday, Roan showed off a self-described “weird and scary” second look — a form-fitting, geometric dress paired with white face makeup and black dots theatrically lining her eyes — while answering a couple questions. One of them challenged her to name her favorite lyric, to which she said, “That’s such a hard question!”
The Grammy winner then settled on an iconic bar from the Queen of Rap’s 2009 classic “Itty Bitty Piggy.” “I don’t f–k wit pigs like As-salamu alaykum/ I put ’em in a field, I let Oscar Myer bake ’em,” Roan recited, throwing her head back laughing.
As for what her favorite things to do in Paris are, Roan answered, “Museums and eating croissants.”
The singer-songwriter’s visit to France comes just one week ahead of the highly anticipated release of her new single “The Giver,” which will mark her first release in nearly a year. It’ll follow 2024’s Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Good Luck, Babe!,” which currently remains her only release since breakthrough 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
Roan has spent the past few weeks teasing the long-awaited country-tinged single — which she first debuted live on Saturday Night Live in November — by slowly rolling out a series of 7-inch vinyl variants named after various characters played by the Missouri native, including a construction worker, a plumber, a lawyer and a private investigator. “The Giver is my take on c–try xoxo may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for yall,” she wrote of the track on Instagram earlier this week.
See Roan at Paris Fashion Week below.
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