“I just wanted to humbly welcome you to the shittiest exclusive club in the world.”
Mitski sent an email to Chappell Roan to warn her fellow singer-songwriter about the perils of fame, in an email seen by Rolling Stone.
Noting the more invasive sides of stan culture, the email read: “I just wanted to humbly welcome you to the shittiest exclusive club in the world, the club where strangers think you belong to them and they find and harass your family members.”
Elsewhere in the interview with Rolling Stone, Chappell Roan opened up about some of the struggles she has faced with certain fan behaviour, alleging that a stalker who has turned up to her house and her parents’ house has forced her to hire security guards.
The revelations come after she called out certain fans for being “creepy” in two TikTok videos posted last month, which had even led to her telling Drew Afualo on his The Comment Section podcast that she was considering quitting music altogether.
In the second TikTok video that she posted, she said: “I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever, is a normal thing to do to people who are famous.
“I don’t want whatever the fuck you think you’re supposed to be entitled to whenever you see a celebrity,” she continued. “I don’t give a fuck if you think it’s selfish of me to say no for a photo, for your time or for a hug. That’s not normal – that’s weird. It’s weird how people think that you know a person just because you see them online and you listen to the art they make.”
Roan has seen a meteoric rise in 2024, with her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess reaching an all-time high at number two on the Billboard US music charts and number one in the UK last month, nearly a year after its initial release.