“They're Parasitic”: Noah Kahan Defends Chappell Roan After New Clash with Paparazzi

Noah Kahan has once again shown support for Chappell Roan following the ‘Red Wine Supernova’ hitmaker's latest clash with paparazzi during Paris Fashion Week.

Roan has had similar run-ins previously, with the chart-topping phenom repeatedly taking to social media to express how disrespectful paparazzi culture is. In this particular instance, Roan films a crowd of people clamouring for her autograph, before emphasising that she has been asking them kindly to leave her alone.

In the clip, Roan explains to the camera, “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”.

The ‘Pink Pony Club’ singer-songwriter goes on, “[I feel] disregarded as a human…These are all the people that are completely disregarding my boundaries...All of you, I’m asking you kindly to please leave me alone and stop following me and harassing me. No, I’m not gonna sign...This is what it’s like, if you were wondering”.

Kahan, who has shown love to Roan in the past, has taken to Instagram to chastise the paparazzi and autograph-hunters, revealing he's had similarly unpleasant experiences.

The Vermont native stresses that they pose as genuine fans, but are really just trying to make money, “These people literally find out where you're staying, where you're flying into, where your team, family, lover's staying, and they are clearly not your fans”.

Kahan goes on, “They just sit outside places and try to guilt you into signing s*** so they can sell it. And they trick people like you who are just watching a video, who don't know what's going on, into thinking someone's being rude to one of their fans, when they're really just, like, manipulating you. They're scummy, they're manipulative, they're parasitic. And yeah, f*** ‘em. Seriously, f*** them”.

Kahan concludes by advising viewers, “Don't feel bad for them, they're not fans, they're just businessmen trying to use human beings for profit and for their own gains”.

It's a shame to see Roan's personal space and boundaries once again being so clearly and so unabashedly infringed upon, with the pop trailblazer continuing to speak out against the paparazzi and autograph-hunters. Hopefully, more artists will join Kahan in criticising this behaviour, and help to change the narrative around how celebrities should treat those who continue to make them feel uncomfortable.

At the moment, it still feels like artists and other public figures do not receive the empathy they deserve in these situations, with the internet instead spinning incidents like this one with Roan as being an example of her simply being too rude to interact with fans. As Kahan so eloquently highlights, this could not be further from the case.

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