Chappell Roan has today shared her new “full ass country song” called ‘The Giver’ – listen below.Roan has been steadily teasing ‘The Giver’ for some time now, with the former NME Cover star debuting the song during an appearance on Saturday Night Live last November.
On the show, she told the audience: “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right. Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right,” prompting fans to dub the track a “lesbian anthem”.Before then, Roan’s producer Dan Nigro told The New York Times fans could expect a “fun, up-tempo country song” that featured a fiddle, and said it would show “a new version” of the ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ singer.Now, a retro lyric video sees Roan take on different service-oriented characters – a lawyer, dentist, plumber, and private investigator – all of whom promise to “get the job done”.The innuendo-heavy characters – “The Lawyer: You’ll love my briefs!” – also made an appearance on billboards around America before the single was shared.The song is Roan’s first new music out since the hugely successful one-off single ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ last year, and in a press release, she shared why she close country for the follow up.“I have such a special place in my heart for country music,” she explained. “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???
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