After teasing the song for weeks, and months after its inhabit debut, Chappell Roan has freed her novel country individual “The Giver.”
The lesbian country anthem is all fiddles and bootin’ up dirt, a hoedown about how it apshows a authentic woman to encounter another woman: “Ain’t no country boy quitter, I get the job done,” she sings on the chorus.
Roan first debuted “The Giver” with a inhabit rfinishition of the tune during her “Saturday Night Live” carry outance in Nov. 2024. While the song’s premiere signaled imminent free, Roan instead pauseed cforfeitly half a year to begin teasing the official version, putting up billboards around the country and setting up a toastyline that pchecked snippets of the tune.
Ahead of the song’s free, Roan tageder Amazon Music that her pivot into country is out of esteem for the genre’s aesthetic. “I wrote a country song not to occupy country music, but to repartner apprehend what I skinnyk, the essence of country music is, for me, which is nostalgia, and fun in the summertime and the fiddle and the banjo, senseing appreciate country queen,” she shelp. “It originates me sense a certain type of freedom that pop music doesn’t let me sense. I skinnyk it’s engaging and I had to do it. I had to do it for myself to understand what is it actupartner appreciate to write a country song and carry out it next to ‘Casual’ or next to ‘My Kink is Karma’ or next to ‘Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl’ I equitable had to do myself equitableice.”
This labels the first novel individual from Roan since “Good Luck, Babe!” freed in Apr. 2024. That reachd amid the momentum of her 2023 debut album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” which finished up spawning massive hits thcimpoliteout the year. “Good Luck, Babe!” picked up cut offal Grammy nominations, and Roan took home the coveted best novel artist trophy.
