Chappell Roan’s lengthy, curly crimson hair is each envy-inducing and one among her greatest identifiers. So it made excellent sense that the artist determined to make her lengthy locks central to the plot of the music video for her most up-to-date single, “The Subway.”

Greater than a yr after Roan debuted “The Subway” at a number of pageant performances, followers had been lastly ready to pay attention to the mysterious track in full after snippets went viral on TikTok. On August 1, Roan launched the extremely anticipated track with a music video to match the New York Metropolis theme.

Within the lyrics of “The Subway,” the singer laments about a breakup and seeing reminders of her ex on the subway and across the metropolis. The track opens with a hair-themed lyric: “I noticed your inexperienced hair/ Magnificence mark subsequent to your mouth/ There on the subway/ I almost had a breakdown.”

In a single scene, Roan will get out of a yellow taxi as her dramatically lengthy hair will get caught in the door. She is then dragged down the road carrying an outsized go well with as her hair stays caught in the door.

Towards the bridge of the track, in which Chappell Roan belts out: “She’s bought, she’s bought a manner,” which turns into, “She bought away,” the musician is proven on a windy New York Metropolis road emotionally singing the lyrics. On this second, her lengthy crimson hair is minimize brief to a cute bob — which is a very new search for Roan.

YouTube/ Chappell Roan

YouTube/ Chappell Roan

Roan shared some behind-the-scenes snapshots of the music video shoot on her Instagram, writing how “proud” she is of the way it turned out. She additionally talked about debuting the only at Gov Ball in New York final yr whereas dressed in Statue of Liberty drag.

“Clearly not realizing this actually chaotic yr would comply with the efficiency, it didn’t actually go away me the time to construct the world the track deserved,” Roan wrote on Instagram. “However lastly we’re right here.”