Chapel RowanThe path to fame and success was not without obstacles – including working in a cake shop in Missouri.
After being axed from her label following cutbacks caused by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Rowan (real name Kylie Rose Amstutz) returned to her hometown of Missouri. To reset. While there, she learned a thing or two about hard work.
“He definitely had a positive impact on me,” Rowan said. BBC Radio 1 In an interview published on Sunday, January 19, about her time working at a donut shop. “You have the knowledge of what it means to clean public restrooms. This is very important.”
The singer used that year of experimentation — which also included having her heart broken — as a springboard to make it happen Launching her career. (Rowan was first signed to a label in 2015, but her debut album didn't hit the airwaves until nearly a decade later.)
When Rowan returned to Los Angeles, she gave herself one year to make it happen — and she did.
In 2022, she released four singles, including “Naked in Manhattan,” as an introduction to her first album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern PrincessWhich decreased in September 2023.
Rowan rose to fame shortly after the release of her record thanks to her 2024 single, “Good Luck Babe!” Which was originally supposed to be titled “Good Luck, Jane!”
“I wanted it to be about me falling in love with my best friend, and then she's like, 'Ha ha, I don't like you back, I like boys,'” the musician revealed on Sunday. “And it was like, 'Well, good luck with that, Jane.'
Rowan, an openly eccentric artist, has never done so I stay away from difficult topics Or deviated from being herself. Although this caused some backlash, the singer stands firm.
“I think, actually, I would be more successful if I was OK with wearing a mask,” she said with a laugh.
She noted that her choices for She takes a tourist break for her mental health And to Call the photographers at the 2024 MTV Awards for allegedly shouting insults at celebrities had hindered her success.
“If I were to get past more of my basic instincts, where my heart goes, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not OK,' I would be bigger,” Rowan said. “I would be a lot bigger…and I would still be on tour now.” (Rowan declined an extension Her 2024 tour to protect her Physical and mental health.)
Her inability to quiet her inner voices did not derail Rowan He received six Grammy Award nominations At next February's ceremony, including Best New Artist. But for her, recognition isn't all that matters.
“If I can look back and say: I did not collapse under the weight of expectations, nor did I endure abuse or blackmail, (then) at least I stayed true to my heart“Ruan concluded.