chappell roan is speedrunning the end of her career right now 💀

talking a bit about chappell roan, bowen yang, and the moo deng snl debacle
in-depth commentary videos at @DAngeloWallace

[sinixdesign]

Generally love your videos, D'angelo, but I do feel disagreement with this one. I'm not hyper familiar with Chappell Roan or anything, but everything I've seen seems like she comes off as a genuine and sane person in an insane world. Democrats are a centrist party, and Kamala represents the continual shift towards the right overall. Getting excited for her and endorsing her is just a long degradation of values that will only lead toward a further right-wing country. So, I understand her words entirely. Because Trump represents such a miserable and awful mindset, of course people like me are going to vote for Kamala, but it doesn't feel good. She's awful on leftist issues, and complicit in a genocide. There's a deep understanding that this vote is a tacit approval of a continual movement to the right. So, I come away from this whole thing starting with no knowledge of Chappell Roan and now having tons of respect for her for NOT sticking with the safe PR talking points and feel good "Momala" vibes that everyone seems to be gleefully slopping up in the corporate run media world. Is that really what we need? More manicured PR statements and vibes over reality? (anyway, hope you're still doing art, and congrats with the continued YT success)

[cabin_quilt]

I'm not a chappel fan but l can't help but feel that a lot of the reaction to chappell's political stance is in bad faith. Maybe I'm just too chronically online but I don't understand how people can see a lesbian art pop star who borrows heavily from drag culture and has been openly supportive of palestine and think her saying "both sides are bad" is her being a centrist rather than her being farther left than the DNC core. Like is the public's critical thinking skills THAT bad??? The context clues are Right there.

[butchblaster]

I grew up in the same town, and knew her pretty distantly. like we had a few friends in common, but I'm not gonna pretend I was her childhood friend or anything. She was incredibly nice, and more importantly, incredibly fucking shy. When she essentially asked to be left alone, it did not surprise me even a little bit. (Also, we do not come from a progressive area lol, it's tough for a leftist in sw Missouri)

[dandididann]

you say she gives no specifics on what’s wrong with both sides then gloss over the fact that she mentioned her support for palrstine as a reason why she wouldn’t endorse Harris. i feel like you’re dancing around a topic here.

[MoMo-rxzr]

“Voting for the lesser of two evils” means acknowledging both candidates are flawed and you’re just voting the less of two harmful situations. People say “voting for lesser of two evils” then expect you to be ra ra for the candidates and endorse and cheer for them, don’t understand the phrase. Like I’ll vote for Kamala, but I’m going to like every single tweet that takes a shot at her bs foreign policy.

[melonramune]

i mean it seemed obvious what she meant to me. she's been openly pro palestine why would she endorse kamala harris

[lunakat__]

like Khadija Mbowe said in their recent video (paraphrasing), "y'all need to have that energy for your elected officials and not Chappell Roan".

like i get the whole thing about 'both sides bad' and needing media training. i just think actions speak way louder and Chappell Roan has been really clear through actions what her beliefs are.

(edited comment to correct pronouns)

[mewgia]

Her saying "both sides are bad" is not vague when you consider she's openly pro Palestine. I don't blame her for not endorsing someone who is helping Palestinians get murdered.

[onyx_mango]

thank you to all my fellow students for letting me know right away it was a clickbait title !! i think we should bring professor wallace to the headmasters for this deceitful 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[lovelaced]

idk why people were so shocked that someone as pro-palestine as chappell isn’t gonna fawn over kamala…like let’s have some critical thinking skills

[Halos]

not another click bait title d’angelo 😭 you’re gonna get posted on twitter again

[nyc]

she quite literally explained the reason of her choice in the same clip and talked about palestine and other issues regarding minority groups are the reason why she couldnt endorse i dont understand what part of that was difficult to understand unless you dont think those issues were huge enough to make people hesitant? kamala isnt a perfect candidate and yall really need to just accept that and the fact that even though she's up against a worse human being and yes eventually people will still vote for her, not everyone has to like her as a politician or the democrat party in general when they couldnt even stand up for the people suffering and keep funding for a genocide bro

[gavinocool]

to answer your question in the beginning, her support of Palestine is what did it, and the fact that she works so blatantly hard to promote queer visibility will get your ass diced up publicly. Taylor Swift on the other hand, shows up, endorses a candidate and dips for 4 more years. If she was constantly talking about Palestine I'm sure she'd be in the same boat

[Kyouth]

I feel like people just wanted her to say that "Kamala is part of the Pink Pony Club" or something like that since no one wants to think critically anymore.

[MacinteuchPlus]

being from outside the US this whole situation is absolutely confusing because like Chappell saying "I ain't endorsing anyone" is the sensible thing to do like I would feel gross too if I was asked to associate my personal project with people who literally fund thousands of deaths, if anything this should have sparked a conversation about how endorsement of politicians gets very worship like very fast

[atelltaleheartt]

It's crazy to me that Chappell gets more hate for this very sensible opinion than Taylor Swift for literally never speaking out about a genocide

[charlie-cucx]

I understand the PR angle of "she needs to communicate better because people don't think critically" but I feel as though it's been painted as if it's her responsibility that they *don't*. She's been outspoken about supporting Palestine, queer rights and trans rights etc. It's not her fault that they've misconstrued every sentence out of her mouth, even when she *is* clear

[me_ruh]

as a palestinian, this was a tough watch. like yes I can agree that there was a better “PR” way for her to voice her opinion. however, we are living in a time period while we are watching people get killed with US tax dollars… so anger and frustration with the current party in office feels correct here.
Many people in hollywood avoid talking about Palestine because they can get blacklisted, so I really respect her for speaking out about her frustration.
the system is broken, so if people don’t speak up and question it, it’ll never change.

[sussybussy]

i just wanna give my opinion on this as a muslim palestinian thats family has been directly impacted and lost in the last year. i totally agree with chappell like im voting for kamala but i dont like it at ALL. like ive been in the streets for the past year protesting this genocide and nothing has come from it. to then have to go and vote for her anyways bc i have no better option is such a slap in the face. she could have worded herself better for sure especially when her words have such a big impact on the people who hear it.. but this is all so disheartening and frustrating..

[ana_yay]

Waiting to criticize people in power until they are ALREADY in power is a hot take. Did not agree with you on this one.