Casual (song)

"Casual" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released as a single on October 28, 2022 independently. It was later released as part of Roan's debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, through Amusement Records and Island Records as the fourth single from the album. She wrote the song along with Dan Nigro and Morgan St. Jean and Nigro is credited as producer along with Ryan Linvill. It is a country-influenced downtempo pop, dream pop, synth-pop, new wave, pop rock, and rock ballad with bedroom pop production. Its lyrics discuss casual dating, in particular a situationship between Roan and a love interest who is unwilling to commit.

The song became a sleeper hit in 2024, as one of Roan's seven simultaneously charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100, along with "Good Luck, Babe!", "Hot to Go!", "Red Wine Supernova", "Pink Pony Club", "Femininomenon", and "My Kink Is Karma" in August of that year.