After a lot teasing, Chappell Roan has lastly launched her new track “The Giver.” Inspired by basic pop-country hits like Huge & Wealthy’s “Save a Horse (Trip a Cowboy)” and Alan Jackson’s “Chattahoochee,” the track is Roan’s first new music since releasing the massively profitable one-off single “Good Luck, Babe!” final yr. Take heed to it beneath.
“I’ve such a particular place in my coronary heart for nation music,” Roan stated in a press launch. “I grew up listening to it each morning and afternoon on my college bus and had it swirling round me at bonfires, grocery shops, and karaoke bars. Many individuals have requested if this implies I’m making a rustic album??? My reply is…proper now I’m simply making songs that make me really feel blissful and enjoyable and ‘The Giver’ is my tackle cuntry xoxo could the basic nation divas lead their style, I’m simply right here to twirl and do some homosexual yodel for y’all.”
Roan initially debuted “The Giver” because the musical visitor on an episode of Saturday Night Live final yr. Throughout that efficiency, Roan wore a pink gingham leather-based set by designer Zara Bayne—a riff on cowboy buckskins—and carried out in entrance of a inexperienced display screen with a large tree and small critters dancing alongside to the track. A full backing band, together with a fiddle participant, joined in behind her whereas wearing matching western shirts.
Earlier this week, Roan stopped by the podcast Country Heat Weekly to make clear that “The Giver” doesn’t signify a much bigger pivot into nation full time. “I wrote a rustic track to not invade nation music, however to actually seize what I feel the essence of nation music is for me, which is nostalgia, enjoyable within the summertime, the fiddle, and the banjo feeling like nation queen,” she stated. “It makes me really feel a sure sort of freedom that pop music doesn’t let me really feel.”
At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Roan performed her The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess track “Pink Pony Membership” and took dwelling the trophy for Best New Artist. Whereas on the stage, she used her acceptance speech as a possibility to name for healthcare reform within the music trade.
Examine “Good Luck, Babe!” at No. 3 in “The 100 Best Songs of 2024.”
