Chappell Roan has been teasing that her new single “The Giver” is coming for weeks, but now we finally have a release date to look forward to. She began dropping breadcrumbs last month, when she offered an invite via her Instagram story to a listening party with a now-dead phone number that provided three snippets of the unreleased track, followed by Spotify-sponsored billboards across the country. And then on Tuesday, she revealed its arrival date: March 13 at 8 p.m. ET.
The country song, which she debuted on Saturday Night Live last November, was written by her and her longtime collaborator, producer-songwriter Daniel Nigro.
“@dan_nigro and I wrote this together and it was so fun!!! We’ve never done a country song and I have such a special place in my heart for country music.” Roan posted via Instagram on Tuesday along with the release date intel. “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,” she continued, adding, “may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for yall.”
The post included a photo featuring her wearing a red hard hat with her auburn curls flowing down her shoulders. Nigro responded to her post with, “Is it even a song without a yodel??”
Back in December, Nigro told Rolling Stone it was too soon to say whether a new Chappell Roan album would arrive in 2025. “We’re just getting started on it,” he said at the time. “I think the one thing that we took from making the last record [is that] time is a big factor in making sure that things are right.”
In November, her SNL appearance featured her performing “Pink Pony Club” and the fiddle-buoyed “The Giver” live debut. “’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,” she sang on the chorus. “Ain’t no need to hurry, ‘cause, baby, I deliver/Ain’t no country boy quitter. I get the job done/I get the job done.”
“The Giver” will be her first new single of the year, and follows last year’s mega-hit, “Good Luck, Babe!”
