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Pop star Chappell Roan highlighted LGBTQ contributions to country music in an Apple Music interview posted Friday.

Chappell Roan goes country as she touts her status as a generous lover, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco get explicit with an Eighties-inspired synth dream about their first date, and Haim return with a poppy quip about how much relationships suck.