Chappell Roan Gets ‘Bold, Scary & Fun’ with New Country Anthem ‘The Giver’
Chappell Roan just dropped her brand-new country song, “The Giver”—and fans have been waiting forever for this one! She first teased the track all the way back in November when she performed it live on Saturday Night Live. On the show, she boldly declared: “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right. Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right.” Naturally, the internet ran with it, calling the song a “lesbian anthem.”
Even before that, Roan’s producer, Dan Nigro, spilled some details to The New York Times, describing the track as a “fun, up-tempo country song” with fiddles and a whole new side of the singer. And now, the song’s retro lyric video brings the fun full circle—Roan plays a lawyer, dentist, plumber, and private investigator, all promising to “get the job done.”
The song’s chorus is just as bold as she is:
“Cause you ain’t gotta tell me, it’s just in my nature / So take it like a taker, cause baby, I’m a giver / Ain’t no need to hurry, cause baby, I deliver / Ain’t no country boy quitter / I get the job done.”
But why country, and why now? Roan spilled the tea on Amazon Music’s Country Heat Weekly show, where she told hosts Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson that this wasn’t about crashing the country scene—it was about capturing what country music means to her.
“I wrote a country song not to invade country music, but to really capture what I think, the essence of country music is, for me, which is nostalgia, and fun in the summertime, and the fiddle, and the banjo feeling like country queen,” she explained. “It makes me feel a certain type of freedom that pop music doesn’t let me feel.”
Over on Instagram, Roan got real about the leap from pop to country, admitting she’s a little nervous. “It is def a bold and scary move to release a full a– country song after only releasing one song last year and it having such a success in the pop genre .. (like I am very scared as I type this lol),” she wrote.
But in true Chappell Roan fashion, she’s embracing the fear and leaning into the fun: “Be bold and scary and have fun,” she told fans. “Be popstar girl then pop an edible + watch YouTube vibes.”
And for anyone side-eyeing the banjos and fiddles in her new sound? She gets it—but she’s encouraging fans to give it a chance. “Sometimes, different can feel bad because it’s unfamiliar, but I encourage you to give her another shot.”
