Who is Emily Warren? Chappell Roan once revealed she felt attached to the songwriter

When Chappell Roan was signed by Atlantic Records at 17, she finished high school early and didn't go to college so as to focus on her music career. As a result, Chappell says she had no friends.

Talking about having no friends in a 2023 Vanity Fair interview, the Casual singer revealed that there was no one in the industry "who wasn't like six or seven years older" than she was. Roan further added:

"It was so crazy because the youngest person I knew at the time was Emily Warren, who's now a massive songwriter, but she was 23 and I felt so attached to her."

Emily Warren is a 31-year-old singer-songwriter who has won a Grammy for her work, and is best known for the songs she has written for celebrated artists like Shawn Mendez, Noah Cyrus, Jessie J, and The Chainsmokers.

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Like Chappell Roan, Emily Warren had an early start in music

Much like Chappell Roan, Emily Warren had recognized her creativity and penchant for music. In her teen years, Warren formed a band called Emily Warren & The Betters with Marc Campbell and Etienne Bowler (both of whom later moved on to form their own band, MisterWives).

Warren started working on her music at 19 when she was a freshman in college and signed a songwriting contract with Prescription Songs two years later. The singer-songwriter released her debut album, Quiet Your Mind, in 2019.

She has also been the writer behind many hit singles by other renowned artists, like Dua Lipa's Don't Start Now and We're Good, Lizzo's Naked, Khalid's Twenty One and Alive, and The Chainsmokers' The Fall, Don't Let Me Down, My Type, Somebody, and more.

When Warren was asked by Billboard what hearing a song she had written on the radio felt like, she said:

"Every time it’s like a full body takeover, just a shock. It’s so weird knowing that multiple people are hearing something you wrote."

Emily then shared her experience of hearing the 2016 track, Capsize, which she wrote for Frenship, on the radio for the first time, saying:

"I remember I was driving to pick my friends up from the airport in L.A. I turned the radio on and it was the chorus of ‘Capsize’ with me singing and I started hysterically crying. I had to pull over because I couldn’t see."

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Chappell Roan is also close to Olivia Rodrigo

While Chappell Roan's connection to Emily Warren as a new artist was one-sided, her friendship with Olivia Rodrigo blossomed much later. The duo first met in 2020 for the first time, when Roan was selected to open for one of Rodrigo's shows in her debut headlining tour, Sour World Tour.

That was the beginning of their friendship, after which Chappell Roan has opened for the good 4 you singer several times, including her most recent Guts World Tour.

In a 2024 episode of Making The Album podcast, when Chappell Roan was asked about having given vocals for any of Rodrigo's songs, she answered:

"I am in Lacy and there's like a secret track called obsessed that's, like, on the vinyl, which I'm on. And I'm also on the Hunger Games song."

Roan also revealed that she had listened to Olivia's debut Drivers License before it was released, and here's her first impression of it:

"She had, like, the perfect storm, and oh my God! there's so much energy around Drivers License... when I heard [the song] before it came out, I was like, 'Dan, I think this is going to be on the radio,' and here we are."

For her part, the All I Want singer is also a fan of Roan's singing. She mentioned her in her 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying:

"Oh, OK! My Spotify Wrapped just came out. I think my number one artist was Chappell Roan. She just put out her first album, and Dan, my producer, produced it, and it’s amazing. So I’m listening to a lot of her."

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Currently, both Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo are on the headlining tours supporting their albums. While Roan has opened for many of Olivia's shows, for her own shows, the Femininomenon singer follows a unique tradition of letting the local drag queens do the honors.