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After teasing the music for a few yr, “The Subway” has arrived fashionably late, however nonetheless fabulous. Chappell Roan has been performing the heartbreak ballad dwell since mid-2024, however is now formally introducing the music as her third single to her upcoming untitled sophomore album. True to her preliminary introduction to the music, the place she known as it “Informal’s cousin,” “Subway” echoes the same sentiment of a heartbreak that doesn’t appear to let go. “However I’m nonetheless counting down the entire days/‘Til you’re simply one other lady on the subway,” Roan sings in post-chorus.
Regardless of the common love for the music from her followers, Roan had been scuffling with whether or not she wished to launch the music or not. “I’ve been banging my head towards the wall with ‘The Subway,’ as a result of… some songs simply work dwell — sure issues work dwell — and so they don’t work within the studio,” Roan advised Las Culturistas in April of this yr. “For ‘The Subway’, it’s simply going to really feel totally different, and totally different doesn’t at all times imply worse…You simply have to actually take your self out of it and be like, ‘That is totally different and that’s okay.’” Completely different could be good, like a brand new hairdo that takes up no less than two seats on the subway.