Chappell (real name Kayleigh Rose Amstutz) recalled the devastating experience during her acceptance speech at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
"I was signed as a minor, [and] when I got dropped I had zero job experience under my belt. And like most people I had a difficult time finding a job during the pandemic and could not afford health insurance," she explained at the award show. "It was so devastating to feel so committed to my art and feel so betrayed by the system. I was so dehumanized not to have health insurance."
Like a true super graphic ultra-modern girl, Chappell bounced back, releasing The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess in September 2023. The album gained major traction in 2024 following the release of Chappell’s sassy single “Good Luck, Babe!,” turning Chappell from an indie artist to music royalty. As her catchy tunes like “HOT TO GO!” and “Red Wine Supernova” blew up overnight, nobody was more shocked by her rapid rise to stardom than Chappell herself.
“I was getting almost a hundred thousand followers a day. At first, I was in severe denial,” she recalled to Rolling Stone in 2024. “They would literally show me some stats and the only thing I could do is say, ‘No, no, no. It’s not like that.’ I couldn’t say, ‘I am gaining success.’”
Although Chappell has finally accepted her stardom, she also realized she needs to find a way to maintain her success.
“It’s my dream job,” she added. “I never know if it’s going to be like this ever again, which is kind of scary.”
As for the future? Although Chappell released two singles in 2025, including her country hit “The Giver,” it looks like she won’t be releasing a new album anytime soon.
“The second project doesn’t exist yet,” Chappell told Vogue in an interview published August 2025. “There is no album. There is no collection of songs.”
“It took me five years to write the first one, and it’s probably going to take at least five to write the next,” Chappell continued. “I’m not that type of writer that can pump it out.”
As we wait to see what Chappell does next, keep reading to learn more about the popstar.
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