Chappell Roan Announces Release Date for Country Single ‘The Giver’

variety.com:

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After weeks of teasing her upcoming single with guerilla-style billboard marketing around the country, Chappell Roan has officially announced that “The Giver” will be released on March 13 at 8 p.m.

ET. The singer revealed the news on social media, explaining that she wrote the song with producer and frequent collaborator Dan Nigro. “We’ve never done a country song and I have such a special place in my heart for country music,” she wrote. “I grew up listening to it every morning and afternoon on my school bus and had it swirling around me at bon fires, grocery stores and karaoke bars.

Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is.. hmm right now I’m just making songs that make me feel happy and fun and The Giver is my take on cuntry xoxo may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for yall.” Roan first debuted “The Giver” on “Saturday Night Live” in Nov.

2024, giving a taste of the country tune and suggesting its release was imminent. Only she’s continued teasing it ever since, putting up billboards over the past few weeks featuring a hotline phone number that played snippets of the song.