Chappell Roan Draws Mixed Reactions Debuting New “Country” Song, “The Giver,” On SNL

Chappell Roan Draws Mixed Reactions Debuting New “Country” Song, “The Giver,” On SNL

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It’s definitely… different.

Over the weekend, pop sensation Chappell Roan was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and if her name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve at least heard part of her song “HOT TO GO!” or “Pink Pony Club.”

She’s having a huge moment right now, and her career is exploding, and she made a comment a few months back saying she was planning to put out a country song soon. During an interview with Rolling Stone not long ago, Chappell revealed that she’s working a new album, the follow-up to her massively successful 2023 debut The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess:

“We have a country song. We have a dancy song. We have one that’s really Eighties, and we have one that’s acoustic, and we have one that’s really organic, live-band, Seventies vibe. It’s super weird.”

I actually do like some of her music a lot (“Pink Pony Club” lives rent free in my head, I can’t lie), but obviously, I think the pop stars going “country” schtick is usually nothing to write home about these days and hardly ever actually works. It’s no secret that country music is hot right now, and it feels like everyone and their mother is trying to put out a country project right now. But it rarely ever feels sincere… it feels like a costume, like you’re playing dress-up. For some reason, country music is the only genre where you can do that and still be taken seriously. Pop stars love to thrown on some boots and a hat, but can you imagine a big star like Luke Combs dying his hair black, slapping on some guy-liner, and recording an early 2000s-era, emo punk rock song? He’d be laughed off the stage.

Well, Chappell debuted the new “country” song during her SNL appearance, and I have to say, it’s pretty much exactly what I expected in terms of the sound… it’s pop, but there some fiddle mixed in which definitely gives it a lot more twang than all of her other music. I was never under the impression that it would sound like it was straight out of a Loretta Lynn album, and honestly, I can hear a lot of Shania Twain influence here. I’d be willing to bet she probably pulled a lot of inspiration from the pop country queen on this song.

Titled “The Giver,” the song has been dubbed a “lesbian country anthem” with Chappell delivering this line in the bridge about how “only a woman” knows how to treat a woman right:

“All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right, well only a woman knows how to treat a woman right.”

Basically, the song is about sex. I don’t have a problem with the suggestive nature of the song, it’s your prerogative to listen to it or not if you don’t like it, and Chappell’s fans had an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the new country-inspired tune. That’s not surprising though… it’s still just a pop song with a little bit of fiddle, and let’s face it, her fans are in full ride or die mode right now:

Of course, others didn’t love it quite so much…

We’ll see what it sounds like once the studio cut is released, but with her debuting “The Giver” on SNL, it seems like it will be a big part of the album rollout and could even be a big radio single too.

Here’s the full audio from the SNL performance:

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