Chappell Roan has revealed several key details about her upcoming single ‘The Giver’ – find out more below.
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The ‘Good Luck Babe!’ singer has been teasing ‘The Giver’ for some time now, first performing the track during an appearance on Saturday Night Live last November. Last month, Roan unveiled vinyl pre-orders for two variants of ‘The Giver’, dubbed ‘The Plumber edition’ and ‘The Lawyer edition’ – those vinyl orders are expected to ship in August.
Now, Chappell Roan has announced that ‘The Giver’ is due for release on March 13. She has also confirmed that the track will be a country tune that she wrote with Dan Nigro. She wrote on Instagram about the song: “We’ve never done a country song and I have such a special place in my heart for country music. 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.”
Chappell Roan then addressed whether her upcoming sophomore album will be a country record: “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.”
Speaking about ‘The Giver’ last July, producer Dan Nigro told The New York Times that fans could expect a “fun, up-tempo country song” that featured a fiddle, and would show “a new version” of the singer. Then, as highlighted by Uproxx, in November the pop star explained that the track is a country-inspired single that recalls how women “get the job done”.
“It will come out! It will come out; don’t worry,” she told Brandi Carlile at the Grammy Museum. “But that was so fun to write. I got to bring what I knew to the table, ’cause I’m a country girl. So I got to be like, ‘No, no, no, like, let me show you some country songs.’”
Roan’s ‘The Giver’ announcement comes shortly after she had performed a duet of ‘Pink Pony Club’ with Elton John at his Oscars viewing party. Elsewhere at Elton John’s fundraising event, she took the stage for a full set that included more duets with John for ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ and ‘Your Song’, which she covered on YouTube five years ago before finding mainstream fame. She also sang ‘Naked in Manhattan’, ‘Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl’, ‘Femininomenon’, ‘Hot To Go’ and ‘Good Luck, Babe!’.
Just the night before the performance, Roan had used her voice to dedicate her BRIT Award win “to trans artists, to drag queens, to fashion students, sex workers, and Sinead O’Connor,” and prior to that made headlines after using her Best New Artist speech at the 67th Grammy Awards to take aim at record labels and share her past experience as a struggling new artist.
