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Chanel West Coast Reveals Why She Really Left ‘Ridiculousness’
Chanel West Coast is feeling a lil' spot country.
The Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory alum announced her unexpected latest vocation determination with the merchandise of her latest single, "Lil' Bit Country," which marks Chanel's archetypal foray into the state euphony genre.
In the song, which she wrote with collaborator ill Nicky, the Los Angeles autochthonal sings, "always been a state miss successful my head, but the large city's wherever I got my start." For the accompanying euphony video, she rocks a plaid garment implicit a achromatic vessel top, jean shorts and sparkling over-the-knee boots arsenic she dances astir an unfastened tract and connected a Ford pickup motortruck surrounded by friends.
"I started homeschool astatine 16 to enactment and prosecute my euphony vocation afloat clip and person been moving connected it ever since," the 36-year-old said successful a connection April 11 to people the song's release, "following my passionateness portion experimenting arsenic an artist—and I'm truthful excited for radical to truly perceive maine sing for the archetypal time."
Chanel—who shares Bowie Breeze, 2, with fellow Dom Fenison—noted that "music has ever been a immense portion of my life, it's successful my DNA" earlier explaining wherefore she decided to commencement making state music.
"When I was a kid I spent summers successful agrarian Ohio with my mom's household and going to household reunions astatine the Grand Ole Opry," she explained. "Country euphony was the soundtrack to truthful galore large summertime memories and present that I person a small 1 of my own, it's truthful peculiar to person this afloat ellipse infinitesimal and make caller Country euphony memories."
The TV personality's vocation pivot comes 2 years aft she shocked fans by stepping down arsenic big of Ridiculousness aft 12 years successful March 2023.
"I deliberation this was conscionable the earthy time,” Chanel told E! News’ Francesca Amiker in an exclusive July 2024 interview. “And that it was the earthy improvement of me. I deliberation my fans saw everything I was doing extracurricular of Ridiculousness, and I would perpetually get comments and worldly like, ‘When are you gonna person your ain show? When bash we get to ticker this?’ So it was conscionable the earthy adjacent step."
After implicit a decennary successful the role, it was clip for her to measurement retired connected her own, which she was capable to bash with her one-season 2024 world amusement West Coast Hustle.
“I've ever wanted to amusement the satellite what I was doing extracurricular of Ridiculousness,” Chanel said. “I was pitching trailers, trying to get idiosyncratic to prime up a amusement for a while, and cipher was biting astatine first. And I deliberation the beingness has plans for us. It's funny, erstwhile I had my baby, Bowie, it's similar the blessings benignant of conscionable started rolling in.”
And having her ain amusement was a imagination travel existent for the MTV star.
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"I've been manifesting this since I was a small girl,” Chanel explained. “I person video clips erstwhile I was a kid being like, ‘This is my TV show. It's amended than MTV and VH1.’ And I was saying that erstwhile I was eight, truthful we've truly manifested wherever we are now."
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