Chappell Roan has shared a series of snippets of her country-inspired new single ‘The Giver’.
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Across a series of TikTok posts, she and her creative director Ramisha Sattar can be seen dancing to the country tinged track, which is set for release on Thursday (March 13).
In the clips – which fans have already recreated – the pair sing along to its tongue-in-cheek chorus: “Cause you ain’t got to 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.”
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♬ The Giver – Chappell Roan
Roan has been steadily teasing ‘The Giver’ for some time now, and the former NME Cover star broke out the upcoming track 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 new song 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.
Roan has delivered on that front, unveiling vinyl pre-orders for two variants of ‘The Giver’, dubbed ‘The Plumber edition’ and ‘The Lawyer edition’ with the styling to match. Those vinyl orders are expected to ship in August.
More recently, she took to Instagram to share yet another persona, “The Dentist”, writing: “Dental dams aren’t just for dentists.”
“We’ve never done a country song and I have such a special place in my heart for country music,” she wrote on Instagram of the track. “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.”
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♬ The Giver – Chappell Roan
“It will come out! It will come out; don’t worry,” she previously 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.
Her rapid ascent to stardom has so far seen her land a UK Number One album in August, win the Best New Artist prize at the MTV VMAs the following month, and later earn six nominations at the Grammys 2025. She has also been announced as a headliner of next year’s Reading & Leeds and Primavera Sound, and this month she was crowned the winner of BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of 2025.
Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe’ was also named as NME’s best song of 2024. “With ‘Good Luck, Babe!’, Roan set out to write a ‘big anthemic pop song’. It was an unqualified success: over subtly insistent synth-pop, Roan serves up home truths to someone desperately trying to deny their queerness,” the entry read.
