Daniel Leonard Nigro is an American musician, songwriter, instrumentalist, and record producer. He was the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band As Tall as Lions. Nigro has produced, written, and co-written songs for Sky Ferreira, Joe Jonas, Kylie Minogue, Caroline Polachek, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Dermot Kennedy, Maisie Peters, and Conan Gray. He has received 16 Grammy nominations and won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for producing Sour in 2021. He was named as the Songwriter of the Year at the 2024 ASCAP Pop Music Awards.
"The Strawberry Roan" is a classic American cowboy song, written by California cowboy Curley Fletcher and first published in 1915, as a poem called The Outlaw Broncho. By the early 1930s, the song had become famous; in 1931 it was sung by a cowboy in the Broadway play Green Grow the Lilacs. It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
"Hold Me Tight or Don't" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on November 15, 2017, through Island Records and DCD2. It was released as the fourth single from their seventh studio album, Mania. A music video was released with the single.
"Lovely" is a song by American singers Billie Eilish and Khalid. Darkroom and Interscope Records released it as the lead single from the Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why's second season soundtrack. The artists wrote the song with Eilish's brother and producer Finneas O'Connell. The song has been described as a chamber pop ballad whose lyrics recount Eilish and Khalid trying to overcome serious depression together. The song also appears on the expanded version of Eilish's EP Don't Smile at Me.
Chloe Papandrea, known professionally as Cxloe, is an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney, New South Wales.
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Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, known professionally as Chappell Roan, is an American singer and songwriter. Working with collaborator Dan Nigro, the majority of her music is inspired by 1980s synth-pop and 2000s pop songs. Her aesthetic is heavily influenced by drag queens, and her music and performing style have been described by critics, including Rolling Stone, as "campy".
"Pink Pony Club" is a song by the American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released as a single through Atlantic Records on April 3, 2020, and later included on her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023). Written by Roan and Daniel Nigro, "Pink Pony Club" is a synth-pop track that describes the story of a woman moving to Southern California from her home state of Tennessee, taking a job as a stripper at a gay strip club despite her mother's wishes.
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is the debut studio album by the American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan. The album was released on September 22, 2023 through Amusement Records, an imprint of Island Records. It was met with widespread acclaim and praised by music critics for its bold and emotionally charged nature. Reviews also complimented the album's engaging blend of sharp songwriting, dynamic pop elements, and Roan's vocal performance. Several publications ranked it on multiple year-end best albums lists for 2023. The album earned Roan her first Grammy Award nominations at the 67th annual ceremony, including for Album of the Year. She is one of fifteen artists in history who have earned Grammy nominations in all of the "Big Four" categories in one night.
"My Kink Is Karma" is a song by American singer Chappell Roan, released on May 6, 2022 as the second single from her debut studio album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023). It was produced by Dan Nigro. The song became a sleeper hit in 2024, as one of Roan's seven simultaneously charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100, along with "Good Luck, Babe!", "Casual", "Hot to Go!", "Red Wine Supernova", "Pink Pony Club", and "Femininomenon".
"Red Wine Supernova" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released in May 2023 as the sixth single from Roan's debut studio album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The song began charting in April 2024, following the success of "Good Luck, Babe!".
"Hot to Go!" is a song by the American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan, from her debut studio album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023). It was released through Island Records and Amusement Records on August 11, 2023, as the album's seventh and final single. She co-wrote the track with its producer Dan Nigro. "Hot to Go!" is a synth-pop track that takes influence from new wave in its instrumentation and vocal inflections. Described as a queer cheer song similar to the Village People's "Y.M.C.A.", it was inspired by Roan's childhood dream of wanting to become a cheerleader.
"Good Luck, Babe!" is a song recorded by the American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released as a standalone single on April 5, 2024, through Amusement Records and Island Records. She wrote the song with Justin Tranter and the song's producer Dan Nigro. A synth-pop, baroque pop, new wave, and soft rock track, "Good Luck, Babe!" references a compulsory heterosexual relationship, describing a lesbian woman trying to deny her romantic feelings for Roan and women in general. It received critical acclaim from music critics, who included it on several mid-year rankings of the best songs of 2024.
The Midwest Princess Tour was the second headlining tour from American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan, launched in support of her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. Comprising eighty-nine shows, it started on September 20, 2023, at Gillioz Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, and concluded on October 13, 2024, at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas.
"Casual" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released as a single on October 28, 2022 independently. It was later released as part of Roan's debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, through Amusement Records and Island Records as the fourth single from the album. She wrote the song along with Dan Nigro and Morgan St. Jean and Nigro is credited as producer along with Ryan Linvill. It is a dream pop song with country influences about casual dating, in particular a situationship between Roan and a love interest who is unwilling to commit.
The Naked in North America Tour was the debut concert tour by American pop musician Chappell Roan. The tour began on February 15, 2023, at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, and ended on March 15 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.
Ramisha Sattar is a visual artist and animator best known for her work as creative director for singer-songwriter Chappell Roan. She is also the director of design for astrologer Chani Nicholas's application CHANI.
"Naked in Manhattan" is a song by American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released independently on February 18, 2022. It would later become the lead single from Roan's debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, through Amusement Records and Island Records. She wrote the song with Dan Nigro and Skyler Stonestreet, with Dan Nigro on production. It is a synth-pop song about having a crush on a girl for the first time, drawing comparisons with the feeling of New York City.
"The Giver" is a song by American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan, marking her venture into the country music genre. It was first performed live during her debut appearance as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live (SNL) on November 2, 2024. Written by Roan and produced by Dan Nigro, the song features traditional country instrumentation, including a fiddle, and explores themes of queer storytelling through subversion of conventional country lyrical norms.
Recession pop is a subgenre of dance-pop that emerged in the late 2000s to early 2010s, the term was coined to describe a wave of up-tempo, catchy, repetitive, feel-good pop music that was produced in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. It often blends elements of electronic dance music, electropop and synth-pop. The genre is seen as reflective of a broader cultural trend during economic downturns, where art serves both as a critique of the times and a coping mechanism.
