The Original Title To Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”
Chappell Roan sat down with BBC Radio 1 where she accepted their prize for Sound of 2025. She chats about her stage name that came from her grandfather who never questioned her artistic spirit or whether she had a plan b, her song “Pink Pony Club,” and her changing relationship to success.
At 15:17 in the interview, she reveals that “Good Luck, Babe!” was not originally intended to be the title of one of her biggest songs.
I don’t even know if I’ve ever said this in an interview, but it was originally called “Good Luck, Jane.” I wanted it to be about me falling in love with my best friend, and then her being like, ‘Ha ha ha, I don’t like you back, I like boys.’ And it was like, ‘OK, well, good luck with that, Jane‘.
On success and fame, Chappell disagrees with Jack Saunders from BBC Radio 1 when he posits that she’s a woman of the people who keeps it real and that’s something that contributed to her rise. At 21:43, she says,
I think you get really successful if you are really not combative.
I think, actually, I would be more successful if I was okay wearing a muzzle.
I think I would be way more successful if I said yes to things that I was made to feel where “you will never get this opportunity again.”
If I were to override more of my basic instinct of my heart being like, “Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. You’re not okay. I would be bigger. I would be way bigger.
Chappell is big on staying true to herself, calling people out, and knowing that options and opportunity are always there.