Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo producer Daniel Nigro on the secret to ‘overnight’ success

Songwriter and record producer Daniel Nigro knew that Chappell Roan’s song “Good Luck, Babe!” was finished when he started to hate it. It was the production on the chorus that did it—the ‘80s drums, the synth layers, the soaring soprano of Roan’s voice as she sings to a lover who won’t acknowledge her own queerness, “You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling.” Nigro—who has also produced both of Olivia Rodrigo’s albums—was in agony. He began to feel anxious just listening...