When Chappell Roan took a moment late in her thrilling performance in Pasadena on Friday, it was to look deep into the sprawling crowd on the grass at Brookside at the Rose Bowl and consider how she and they have come.

“The last show I played in L.A. was at the Wiltern,” she said of her show at the Los Angeles theater in November 2023. “I think that’s 2,500 people, so it’s really crazy that we’re here and there’s like 40,000 people here tonight.”

Crazy’s a good word for it. The Wiltern show, and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” debut album that tour promoted, surely contributed to Roan landing a mid-tier spot on the 2024 Coachella lineup .

Her Coachella performances pulled overflow crowds to the Gobi Tent, launching a run of summer festival dates that grew exponentially w

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