{"id":324541,"date":"2026-03-11T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/324541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:56:12","slug":"noah-kahan-defends-chappell-roan-after-paparazzi-incident-boy-george-says-she-should-cheer-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/324541\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Kahan Defends Chappell Roan After Paparazzi Incident, Boy George Says She Should “Cheer Up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

For almost two years, the matter of Chappell Roan’s attitude has been a major subject of internet conversation. We should all just go get a life! Roan has a history<\/a> of yelling at photographers, and people have read all kinds of stuff into that. It’s like we’re all so used to pop stars who have spent entire childhoods in Disney-sitcom charm school that we can’t be normal about someone reacting to weird fame situations in non-robotic ways. Also, have you ever been around paparazzi? They are incredibly irritating! I spent a few hours in a room with some of them once (the press room of the 2005 CMAs), and I wanted to crawl out of my skin. Anyway, Chappell Roan’s latest shutterbug run-in has inspired more discussion among her fellow pop stars.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Chappell Roan was in Paris for Fashion Week. While going out to dinner one night, she was encircled by photographers and autograph hounds, and she got annoyed enough that she took out her phone and started filming them. While in a sarcastically calm and pleasant voice, she said:<\/p>\n

…being disregarded as a human, this is what it’s like. So I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me. This person, I’ve asked several times to go away, and they will not. They’re hiding their face because they’re ashamed. These are all the people that are completely disregarding all of my boundaries… All of you, I’m asking kindly to to please leave me alone and stop following me and harassing me. No, I\u2019m not gonna sign. This is what it\u2019s like, if you were wondering how it is.<\/p>\n

As far as I know, Roan never posted her own video. But someone else posted a video of her making the video, and that one went viral. <\/p>\n

In a post on his Instagram story on Tuesday, Roan’s peer Noah Kahan jumped to her defense, writing, “Maybe they should just idk leave her alone? Also those dudes saying ‘I’m a huge fan’ following her around are scalpers and are as bad as paparazzi. Fuck em all.”<\/p>\n

Noah Kahan defends Chappell Roan in new post:<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they should just idk leave her alone? Also those dudes saying \u2018I’m a huge fan\u2019 following her around are scalpers and are as bad as the paparazzi. F**k em all\u201d pic.twitter.com\/rva2CaabKS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

As Variety reports<\/a>, Kahan kept going. In a follow-up video post, Kahan said:<\/p>\n

These people literally find out where you\u2019re staying, where you\u2019re flying into, where your team, family, whoever\u2019s staying, and they are clearly not your fan. They just sit outside places and try to guilt you into signing shit so they can sell it. And they trick people like you who are just watching the video, who don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, into thinking that someone\u2019s being rude to one of their fans when they\u2019re really just like manipulating you.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re scummy, they\u2019re manipulative, they\u2019re parasitic, and yeah, fuck \u2019em. Seriously, fuck them. Don\u2019t feel bad for them. They\u2019re not fans. They\u2019re just businessmen trying to use human beings for profit and for their own gains. So they can get bent \u2014 eat fucking nails.<\/p>\n

Boy George, someone who had his own run as an enfant-terrible pop star, took the opposite position. On Wednesday, he tweeted<\/a> this:<\/p>\n

It’s probably not helpful but I have been doing this fame thing for a while and you learn slowly and painfully that you don’t get a free pass once you turn yourself into a bird of paradise. I watched @ChappellRoan filming the paps in Paris and I laughed because I have kicked off at them many times. The trick is to own your fame. yes, it’s annoying at times but so is being ignored and told your a ‘has-been. Life is always now and I think Chappell looks great but cheer up girl. The world is at your feet stop kicking it! It takes so much more time to say no to a picture or a signature. Boundaries are boring. Break them with the magic of kindness!<\/p>\n

In other news, People reports<\/a> that Boy George recently said that he’s been using AI to help him write music recently. In a podcast interview<\/a> last week, he said that “there’s so many great things” about AI and that he has “written like five albums already with AI.” Allow him to elaborate:<\/p>\n

I have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT, and I\u2019ll say, “Oh that [lyric is] crap, that\u2019s not what I would say.” You can train it. And my manager last night was saying, “You know you\u2019re talking to someone in China.” I was like, “I couldn\u2019t care less.” I said, “It doesn\u2019t matter.”… An artist like me, they try to force you to work in an old-fashioned way. I\u2019m ahead of them.<\/p>\n

My advice is don’t take this guy’s advice.<\/p>\n