Sheryl Crow Chopped 8 Inches Off Her Hair — Though Worried She’d ‘Hate It’

Mar. 15, 2025

Sheryl Crow with her long hair and with her short hair.Photo:Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Today Show with Hoda & Jenna/Youtube

Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Today Show with Hoda & Jenna/Youtube

Sheryl Crowknows that hair can be a security blanket.

That’s why she was a little bit afraid to cut off her length, even though she was dying to try something different at the end of last year.

TheEvolutionsinger toldHoda KotbandJenna Bush Hageron the March 29 episode ofToday with Hoda and Jennathat she wanted to cut her hair before she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November but held off, just in case the big chop didn’t go as planned.

“I wanted to do it before the Rock Hall but was like, ‘What if I hate it?’ So I kept my rock hair until the ceremony was over and then I went and was like, ‘Chop it,' " Crow, 62, said on the show.

And when she said she waited until the ceremony was over and then cut it, she wasn’t kidding — she actually trimmed it down the very next day.

“I went from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to the next morning to the ballfield, which is what we do [as parents], and then to the hair salon and was like [chop],” she told the co-hosts with a laugh while miming chopping off her hair. Eight inches of it, to be exact!

Both Kotb and Bush Hager complimented the singer’s hairstyle, and Crow said it’s been fun to have it so short. She added, “It’s been a long time since I’ve had short hair!”

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Sheryl Crow at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in November 2023.Mike Coppola/WireImage

Mike Coppola/WireImage

Crow also told Kotb and Bush Hager that she recently joinedTikTokto kick off 2024 and is slowly getting the hang of the social media platform. Though she has two teenage sons — Wyatt, 16, and Levi, 13 — neither of them are allowed to use the video-based platform, so she’s on her own with navigating the popular app.

That doesn’t mean her sons don’t have an opinion her using TikTok, though.

She toldSeth MeyersonLate Night with Seth Meyerson Thursday night thatthey definitely have thoughts on her music and her careerthese days.

“I also wrote a song called ‘Broken Record,’ and I played it for them and they were like, ‘Mom, you can not put that on your record. No.’ Same with TikTok, ‘Mom, you can not be on TikTok. That is so cringey,’ " Crow recounted to Meyers.

source: people.com