Chappell Roan’s New Song “The Giver” is a Lesbian Country Anthem
- DIG 4552
- Mar 20
- 2 min read
By Natalie Pereira
Chappell Roan has been on an incredible run, rising quickly to fame ever since her single “Good Luck, Babe” released in April of last year. With 1.3 billion streams on Spotify and counting, the song helped thrust Roan and her career into the spotlight, and she is ramping up to release her next single: a raunchy lesbian country song called “The Giver”.
The Best New Artist winner originally debuted the song on her first Saturday Night Live appearance back in November, transforming the stage into a country set with her and her band all clad in plaids. The song was immediately an internet hit, especially with her bold stage declaration of “Only a woman knows how to treat a woman right.”
After months of silence about the song, fans in Nashville noticed out of the blue one February day none other than a billboard with Roan’s face on it. Dressed as a lawyer, with the tagline “Your Ex’s Worst Nightmare” the billboard hosted a phone number 620-HOT-TO-GO which when called, brought fans to an automated voice message asking which department they were looking for. From legal to dental to even private investigator, each time the caller selected their department, the line plays a different grainy snippet of the new song, quickly ramping up hype for the song.
With the information learned on the phone, fans quickly began to look for other billboards popping up with Roan’s face, and Roan certainly delivered. From LA to NYC, Austin to Chicago, billboards and advertisements popped up across the states as Roan went on Instagram to announce the song's official release would be March 13th at 8pm.
Roan also announced vinyls of the new single on her website, each one with a different version of the characters she dressed up for on the billboards. As she ramps up to release the song, many people are wondering why the shift into country despite previously only really working with pop music. In an interview with Apple Music, Roan described the choice by saying she has a “special connection with country music because of where [she’s] from,” and she chose to honor that connection by “making a country song where it’s like… you know what? Yes, I’m gay, and yes I am ultra-pop. Yes I am a drag queen… who can also perform a country song.” Being from the midwest, the song allows her to connect multiple parts of her identity together and to remind everyone that, above all else, she gets the job done.
The song will be streaming wherever you listen to music, today at 8pm.
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