Chappell Roan arrived at tonight’s MTV VMAs fully prepared to kill, and she literally had a sword with her. The singer, who is attending her first MTV VMAs tonight, wore a sheer maxi dress and cloak on the carpet. She was given her crest by her own knight as she posed for photos.

She will perform later tonight.

The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer is nominated for four awards, including Best New Artist.

Roan’s “Hot To Go” is up for Best Trending Video, and “Good Luck, Babe!” is nominated for Song of the Summer. Meanwhile, “Red Wine Supernova” is on the shortlist for MTV Push Performance of the Year.

Roan has had a year that many have described as ‘meteor-like’. She recently told Rolling Stone that in June, after the Gov Ball performance, “I was getting almost a hundred thousand followers a day. At first, I was in severe denial. They literally showed me some stats and all I could do was say, ‘No, no, no. That’s not how it is.’ I couldn’t say, ‘I’m becoming more and more successful.'”

“It’s my dream job,” she added. “I never know if it will ever be like that again, which is kind of scary.”

She also revealed to the publication that she and songwriter Daniel Nigro are already working on a new album: “We have a country song. We have a danceable song. We have one that’s really ’80s, and we have one that’s acoustic, and we have one that’s really organic, live-band, ’70s vibe. It’s super weird.”

Of the pressure to top “Good Luck, Babe!” with another banger, she said, “(The next single) has to have more punch, whether that means more pop punch or rock punch or just sharp lyrics. Everything I listen to — Joan Jett, Heart, Gaga — I want to feel like them. So I just take inspiration from that feeling and how I can capture it.”

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