Chappell Roan, Bedecked in Feathers, Crushes ‘Good Luck, Babe!,” Name-Drops Sasha Colby on ‘Fallon’

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Fast-rising pop singer-songwriter Chappell Roan made a memorable appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” Thursday, wearing a wild feathered black outfit for her chat with the host before donning a completely different feather-bedecked dress to perform her latest single, “Good Luck, Babe!” Her performance of the song was vivid, as she showed off her formidable vocal range on the final “I told you so!” segment of the song from a surreal garden-like setting, which begin and ended with her singing while seated on a throne shaped like a white swan.

The interview — her first on late-night TV — was lively from the start. Fallon pulled out a photo of a young Roan performing onstage years ago before a handful of people, which the singer recalled was from “this weird gay festival” and “I think it was the first time I performed ‘Pink Pony Club’ in front of the world,” she added, referencing her ode to a mythical nightclub “where boys and girls can all be queens every single day,” which appears on her debut album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess.” Fallon then pulled out a photo of the massive crowd that had gathered for her headline-grabbing performance at New York’s Governors Ball festival earlier this month, to wild applause from the crowd.

Asked how that felt, she joked, “It feels like I was right all along,” before adding more modestly, “I felt kind of like I’d made it already, when people showed up to my concerts a few years ago, and this is the cherry on top.” Asked about her style inspirations — a fair question when one’s interview subject is wearing a dress with two-foot-long feathers emanating from the chest, eye makeup including feathers and four-inch-long nails —.