Chappell Roan Says She’s “Voting For F@cking Kamala,” But No VP Endorsement & “F@ck Trump, For F@cking Real”

Reminds me of when I asked who Bad Bunny was

Oh, did the new Beatles album drop?

I mean, using these spotify metrics in comparison with all time greats is kinda flawed.

For example my band sold just as many tickets as Michael Jackson and the Beatles COMBINED in 2024.

I am not in a band.

It's really sad to me that modern youths and others tend to only listen to streaming music services, paying subscriptions, listening to ads, not being able to choose what song they hear next.

Everyone should own some form of permanently usable media with the music they like on it. If bands were still putting out CDs I'd recommend that for long term storage, because my collection from the 90s is still working fine. But with smartphones being the king of all social control now, I'd recommend having MP3s of every song and album you enjoy. Store them in multiple places with backups. I have also been collecting those since the 90s. My music collection is awesome. I have hundreds of CDs and about 10000 MP3s that no corporation can deny me access to.

The only thing I like about streaming services is discovering new artists. But I don't need it to do that.

that's a hell of an endorsement; enough that i went and listened. not my thing. but overall seems chill.

Oh thanks, NPR is really good at dumbing down pop music for me.

She makes decent lesbian focused pop music. It’s fun to sing

fuck the policies on the right, but also fuck some of the policies on the left. That’s why I can’t endorse.

That's a lame take. Unless you personally are running, you're not going to agree with everything a candidate says.

So people should just vote and stfu about any nuance within a party they disagree with?

Maybe I'm just not picking up what you're putting down, but that's how your comment scans to me.

Also what policies? Like what's the point of feigning a moral stand if you don't define it? If she has legitimate grievances with the Democrats or leftist politics (yes pedants, I know they're different and I'm saying "or" to include both, not to conflate them), then she should voice them. Otherwise she's saying nothing but playing into the bs "both sides" false narrative that enormously benefits the right.

I think she is absolute right and within her rights to be critical and unenthusiastic about the Democratic options, but without actually offering critique then what is her weak centrist take accomplishing?

She's 26. That's fairly young for a voter. Not really sure what her cv has to do with being considered old.

You're so young that you think doing something for a decade is a long time.

Abortion was illegal for 70-120 years depending on the state. It was 50ish years from the progressive era and the beginning of birth control to the ruling of Roe. Overturning roe was a 50 year political project by the right.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime.

We keep breaking it by voting for Republicans every now and then.

Except, by definition, she is endorsing Harris by publicly supporting her candidacy. Endorse doesn't mean you agree with everything they stand for, but if you are publicly saying who you are voting for, that's an endorsement.

The problem is she's trying to bring nuance to a bumper sticker platform.

I know I’m the annoying pro trains girl at work.

Ugh, train people are the worst. WE GET IT, YOU LIKE TRAINS.

Edit: I genuinely thought this was a typo and they meant "pro-trans." But maybe they actually did mean "trains."

It's not going to get better under Trump either, and your ballot has more choices than President on it. I'm sure you volunteered for local progressive campaigns, right?

In the American elections you can definitely vote in.

This is either some wild optimism or accelerationism.

Gay rights activists got started in the 1970's and in the 80's they got homosexuality taken off the list of mental disorders and in the 90's it looked like Hawaii was going to legalize same sex marriage and then the conservatives took notice and passed the defense of marriage act and Bill Clinton signed it (yes, a Democrat) and then Iowa and Massachusetts courts legalized it at the state level in the 00's and for 10 years we watched court cases and ballot measures go state by state and then in 2014 we got obergefell.

Republicans did not get us marriage equality, Democrats did. Republicans opposed it at every step. Even obergefel would not have happened if Clinton had not won and picked some SC justices. Clinton had a Republican house and Senate and he was more concerned with avoiding a government shutdown. Defense of marriage act was a Republican bill. Don't ask don't tell was a compromise with Republicans. Obama repealed don't ask don't tell after Dems took the white house and both houses of Congress.

It matters who is in charge, every year, every election. And the Republican hasn't been the progressive option since teddy Roosevelt left the Republicans to form the bull moose party.

So acting like we need to punish the Democrats for not opposing netanyahu by electing Republicans is literally throwing Palestinians and poc and queer people and poor people under the bus for your own self rightiousness.

The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is an incredible piece of work.

Ok… that sounds pretty good 🤣

Ah. Yeah, I suppose that makes more sense. But also, I feel like the distinction is somewhat pedantic. You’re openly saying you’re voting for them, which is essentially an implied endorsement. That’s not a tortured chain of logic. That’s a pretty direct inference.

Shit, its like Bad Bunny all over again. Had no idea who he was, just to find out he is/was the biggest artist in the world. I fear I may be out of touch.

r-radio?

I’m 45, and even I haven’t listened to radio and at least a decade

Tay sway has been media trained since she was a child. She's a product and she knows it. Roan was playing on a keyboard in the park not that long ago and she hasn't figured out that she will go crazy trying to manage her fame like she is.

Thats not an accent dude that’s just someone who cant string a sentence together without making meaningless interjections every several words. It’s the equivalent of saying uhhhh every uhhhh time you need to uhhhhh think because you uhhhhh didn’t figure out your uhhhhh thoughts before uhhhh spitting them out.

No, endorsing isn't the same as voting. Being forced to choose between two shit things is different than being made to reccomend it to someone else

She said she is still voting for her. I wouldn't endorse someone active in genocide and who doesn't match my values as well. I think she was fair and told people to think for themselves. It is good to see a celeb that isn't a yes man for once.

I disagree, "person tells singer they should stick to singing" seems pretty middle of the road as far as takes go.

You missed the point, no one should care. Celebrity worship is rampant and goes too far. Her being famous enough that her approach to politics being newsworthy is a problem. The relationship between entertainer and entertainee should cease when the last track on the album ends. Her being popular doesn't qualify her to speak on these subjects. It's the same hole that Trump crawled out of.