Lesbian pop princess Chappell Roan is MAC Cosmetics new global ambassador – but her appointment has been met with a mixed response from fans, who have questioned her decision to work with the brand.

On Monday (8 December) the Grammy-winning “The Subway” singer was announced as the global ambassador for MAC Cosmetics, which is a subsidiary of Estee Lauder.

“MAC has always made space for people like me; since day one they’ve embraced art, queerness, drag and self-expression,” your favourite artist’s favourite artist said of the collaboration.

“It’s about developing these characters through artistry,” Roan added.

“Growing up in the Midwest, I was always told to tone it down, but that energy is what made me who I am. I want people to feel like they can take up space and express themselves however they want – that your “too much” is your magic – and that’s been in MAC’s DNA from the beginning.”

While some fans were quick to congratulate Roan on her latest success – following a stratospheric rise to fame the last couple of years – others were more critical, with several Reddit threads popping up in the last 24 hours dedicated to discussing her new role with MAC and the implications of her appointment.

Several noted that MAC, as a subsidiary of Estee Lauder, is on the Israel boycott list – which appears to contradict the artist’s outspoken views on Palestine amid the Hamas-Israel conflict.

Following the attack in southern Israel by Palestinian nationalist group Hamas two years ago, which left 1,195 people dead and at least 250 Israeli citizens and soldiers taken hostage, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military response has resulted in the death of more than 70,000 people in Gaza and more than 170,000 injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

A peer-reviewed study published in the medical journal The Lancet earlier this year put the death toll considerably higher and Israel has faced international criticism for its military action, which included the blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza, causing food and medical shortages.

In October, a 20-point ceasefire deal was signed by US president Donald Trump. However, since the ceasefire came into effect at least 370 people have been killed in Gaza including 140 children, according to data from Amnesty International.

Throughout her rise to fame, Roan has been outspoken about Palestine and admitted in 2024 that she turned down an invitation to perform at the White House for Pride due to the Biden administration’s policies on the conflict.

Speaking to the crowd at New York’s Governors Ball festival, Roan said: “This is a response to the White House, who asked me to perform for Pride. We want liberty, justice, and freedom for all. When you do that, that’s when I’ll come.”

Later in her set, Roan explained her Lady Liberty outfit and highlighted some forgotten American messages.

“I am in drag of the biggest queen of all,” she said. “But in case you had forgotten what’s etched on my pretty little toes, ‘Give me your tired, your poor; your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’”, she said, quoting the sonnet written on the 1903 bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty by American poet Emma Lazarus.

“That means freedom and trans rights, that means freedom and women’s rights, and it especially means freedom for all people in oppressed people in occupied territories,” she continued.

Later, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Roan went into more detail about her decision to turn down performing at the White House.

She explained that at first she decided to go but not perform, and instead read out poetry written by Palestinians.

“I had picked out some poems from Palestinian women,” Roan said. “I was trying to do it as tastefully as I could because all I wanted to do was yell. I had to find something that’s tasteful and to the point and meaningful, and not make it about me and how I feel.”

However, ultimately, she decided against attending at all after her publicist warned: “You f**k with the president and the government, your security is not the same, and neither is your family’s.”

“It is not so black and white that you hate one and you like the other,” Roan went on to say in the interview “No matter how you say it, people are still going to be p***ed for f**king some reason. I’m not going to go to the White House because I am not going to be a monkey for Pride. And thank God I didn’t go because they just made a huge statement about trans kids a couple weeks ago.”

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