{"id":299084,"date":"2025-10-13T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299084\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:07:09","slug":"highlights-from-night-1-of-l-a-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299084\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights From Night 1 of L.A. Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChappell Roan<\/a> loves L.A. The 27-year-old pop superstar couldn\u2019t stop telling the crowd at her massive Pasadena show Friday night. With nearly 40,000 people gathered, by Roan\u2019s own estimation, it\u2019s clear L.A. loves her right back. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe fairy tale-themed concert, part of a string of pop-up shows Roan dubbed Visions of Damsels and Other Dangerous Things, took over Pasadena\u2019s Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Friday night. The golf course used typically for larger events was a fitting venue for the hours-long affair, which felt more like \u201cChappell Roan: The Festival\u201d than a regular concert.<\/p>\n

\n\tFans were treated to a slew of pre-show activities, including several photo ops, food trucks and performances. RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race alum Trixie Mattel<\/a> kicked off the night with a DJ set along with opening performances from drag queens, as Roan does with all of headlining shows.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe overall feeling in the air at Friday\u2019s performance was joy. Throughout the concert grounds, there were hoards of fans dressed in the night\u2019s theme, mermaids, decided by Roan herself, \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d inspired looks and Roan merch. Concertgoers ranged from families with young kids, playing around the Brookside grounds waiting for the main act to take the stage, to Gen Z and millennials to older fans. The general admission festival nature of the space allowed people to spread out and lounge on blankets until Roan went on stage shortly after 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaking the stage following a retro cartoon intro, Roan \u2014 dressed in a sparkly olive green costume completed by a bedazzled trident \u2014 waltzed around the castle-like stage belting her poppy B-side \u201cSuper Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.\u201d The 18-track setlist included nearly all of Roan\u2019s 2023 breakout album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, along with newer songs (\u201cThe Subway<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Giver,\u201d \u201cGood Luck, Babe!\u201d) and a cover of Heart\u2019s \u201cBarracuda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTechnically speaking, Roan already brought Midwest Princess to L.A. for a headlining show back in November 2023. The show, which Roan called out during Friday night\u2019s performance, had an estimated cap of 2,500, according to Roan. A true reminder of how meteoric the Grammy Award winner\u2019s<\/a> rise has been in the last two years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe crowd hung on Roan\u2019s every word, and she seemed extremely in tune with the gathered audience. Early into the show, she signaled to crews to help a concertgoer, telling the fan after she finished the song, \u201cI see you, and I\u2019m going to send medic to help you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe certainly brought her signature playful nature, calling out someone rolling their eyes at her and at one point pointing out a dad in the crowd who wasn\u2019t learning her now-iconic \u201cHOT TO GO\u201d dance. She joked that he looked really nice so she\u2019d leave him be. Later in the show, during sapphic country anthem \u201cThe Giver<\/a>,\u201d she even called out a few audience members mid-song, cheekily asking between lines, \u201cAre you tired boys because this is a lesbian song?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe onstage banter morphed into a genuinely emotional speech towards the end of the show, speaking to the crowd atop a throne on stage. \u201cL.A.\u2019s my favorite city in the world. It\u2019s the best place in the world,\u201d she told the cheering crowd, explaining that she\u2019s lived in the city for nine years and struggled during the first five years she\u2019s lived there. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI appreciate this city. I lived in Altadena, which is close to here,\u201d she said. The singer told the crowd she\u2019s never loved L.A. more than when she saw the community come together to help Altadena and the Pacific Palisades during the deadly wildfires earlier this year. She added, \u201cI\u2019m so lucky to be able to live here and to play here. This city has taken care of me, and it\u2019s only my duty to take care of it back.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRoan, at a loss for words over the emotion of the moment it seemed, paused before saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know, fuck ICE, forever,\u201d which earned loud cheers from the crowd. She reiterated the sentiment before explaining she was very nervous, especially to be playing in front of an L.A. crowd because she feels like everyone is aware that music<\/a> industry people are in attendance. She urged the audience to enjoy the show like they were kids again before jumping into her next song. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe grand finale was \u2014 no surprise\u00a0\u2014 Roan\u2019s hit single \u201cPink Pony Club,\u201d originally released in 2020. The song exploded last year and entered the Billboard Hot 100 four years after its release, only peaking earlier this year at No. 4. \u201cThis is for you L.A.,\u201d Roan told the crowd. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe crowd sang along to every word, a heartwarming and joyous end to a night of pop stardom at its peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chappell Roan loves L.A. The 27-year-old pop superstar couldn\u2019t stop telling the crowd at her massive Pasadena show…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[59650,171,975,152343,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-299084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chappell-roan","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-trixie-mattel","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365127753766161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}