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Ryan Lee Clemens
Chappell Roan
Pop
'It's About Time Saskatchewan Get Recognized Globally’: Chappell Roan Promises to Visit Province After Viral Lyric
Since the release of "The Subway," the Grammy-winning pop singer is putting Western Canada on the map.
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Chappell Roan has become Saskatchewan’s biggest fan.
On the pop star’s newest track, “The Subway,” — which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, and No. 3 on the Hot 100 this week — she shouts out the province, singing: "Well, f— this city, I'm moving to Saskatchewan.” Before its release, the region reported an increase in tourism thanks to the viral lyric.
In conversation with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Roan said she chose the province simply because it rhymed in the verse.
She recalled brainstorming other city names in the coveted lyric, but Saskatchewan fit the bill. “We needed something [that ended with] ‘an,’” she told Lowe.
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“They’re gonna erect a statue of you in the city, I’m telling you,” he quipped.
“You know what, it's about time Saskatchewan get recognized globally,” Roan responded.
Lowe declared that the province now exists on “an eternal playlist of place-names in music ready to be made,” — this includes Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess track “Femininomenon,” which shouts out Boston.
“It’s awesome. I’ve never been there, but I promise I will perform there one day,” she said of Saskatchewan. “And I just love that the capital is called Regina,” she said, smiling coyly.
Lowe proposed a future “open air show” in the province’s capital city, to which Roan confirmed: “I will be all up in Regina, don’t you worry.”
Last month, 2SLGBTQ Affairs Shadow Minister Nathaniel Teed wrote an open letter to Roan, inviting her to the Land of the Living Skies. While no tour plans have been made, it’s clear the province will welcome the pop star with open arms.
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