Chappell Roan’s dad turns emotional while singing along to ‘Pink Pony Club,’ shares what he learned from daughter
Chappell Roan’s dad, Dwight Amstutz, shared what he learned from her daughter from her hit song Pink Pony Club.
In her appearance on a special Christmas episode of Carpool Karaoke, Chappell, alongside Zane Lowe, strolled around in her hometown of Missouri while talking more about her life back home.
She was joined by her parents, Dwight and Kara, who gamely sang along to her songs like Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.
While they were singing along to Pink Pony Club, Dwight was seen wiping his tears during the lines “Don't think I've left you all behind, still love you and Tennessee, you're always on my mind.”
As the 26-year-old pop star talked about how she wrote the song, Dwight turned emotional sharing the lesson he learned from Chappell through it.
"I think about this a lot and try not to get emotional about it,” he said.
"What she stands for is a lot of hope, but what she has taught me as a father is respect for other people and all people, and that’s what I want people to understand,” he continued. “Everything that is about her is about loving everybody, and she has taught me that."
Meanwhile, her mom Kara was also teary-eyed, saying she loves singing the song with her daughter during her shows.
"We love her so much, and we’re so proud of what she does and who she is and what she stands for," she said.
“I love it when you can just see the people just respond to that song so much,” she added. “I hope that’s something that she always knows, that we love her so much, and we could never not be proud of her, honestly.”
ICYDK, Chappell previously shared that the song was inspired by go-go dancers she watched after visiting a gay bar for the first time in West Hollywood, California.
"I went to a gay bar called The Abbey in West Hollywood and was completely changed by the entire experience," she said in her May 2020 interview with The Daily Shuffle.
“I was enthralled by the go-go dancers and thought about how amazing it would be to be one, so I wrote a song about it,” she added.
In a separate interview, she furthered how she felt "free" that night, the feeling she wouldn't get back to her conservative hometown in Missouri.
“All of a sudden I realized I could truly be any way I wanted to be, and no one would bat an eye,” she said in her previous interview with Headliner Magazine.
“It was so different from home where I always had such a hard time being myself and felt like I’d be judged for being different or being creative. I just felt overwhelmed with complete love and acceptance, and from then on I started writing songs as the real me.”
"Everyone was having a great time; it was magical. I just felt like I belonged there, and that really changed my life. It’s something that I couldn't really have experienced here in Missouri–in my small town at least. It was completely eye-opening and changed my direction from that point on," the Red Wine Supernova singer said.
Pink Pony Club is among the songs from her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, released in September 2023. It currently has over 335 million streams on Spotify and 25 million views on YouTube, as of writing.
