A role model in her first Coachella set, how love inspired her music and why Este Chaim is like a "mother" to her
The 24-year-old singer talks to news about her new album Rx, touring with type 1 diabetes also falling in love for the 1st time. Role models have a motto: "Enter everything with low expectations." "I think it's in my...
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The role model, who recently dated YouTube star Emma Chamberlain.
The 24-year-old singer talks to news about her new album Rx, touring with type 1 diabetes also falling in love for the 1st time.
Role models have a motto: "Enter everything with low expectations."
"I think it's in my favor," the 24-year-old singer told news last Friday, just before her second appearance at Coachella this weekend.
It's hard to disagree just looking at last month's Role Model: In addition to completing two successful Coachella sets, she also released her debut studio album Rx on April 8 and embarked on a tour five days later.
"This is crazy," he said. "There were a lot more people at Coachella than I expected. I feel so great about our tour, which was great. It's so inclusive, and we all sing together. Our first show on the tour was in Pomona [California], right before Coachella. It was a few days ago. After we released the album and the fans knew every word. I didn't even know the words!"
Upon release, fans were hooked on the all-in-one Ultra-Touch Rx, which Role Model (née Tucker Pilsbury) put into work "when I first saw myself in love."
"I'm a little late with that," he said. "I have been very closed to love and relationships my whole life. At first, I said to myself, "I hate everyone. I don't want to fall in love. I like to be alone. But when it happens, you can't help it. I don't think it spoils the music. I think I've tried adapting to it and making it sound like the music I've always made and will always make."
The role model, who recently dated YouTube star Emma Chamberlain, whose boyfriend has reportedly been at the Vanity Fair Oscars for over a year, said their relationship inspired "lots of love songs" when she first started writing.
"I need sitting down with my producer, Spencer Stewart, and saying, 'I don't even want to hear it.' It was boring. That was enough in the world," he recalled. "We turned down a lot of songs because we might have two music albums. I just said, "Let's be creative and indirect." So there are songs on the album like "Die for My Bitch" and "Strip Club Music" to express the power of womanhood and treat the man I fell in love with as something divine."
"The whole album is theatrical," he added. "But [love] was new to me. It hit me like a train."

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