“All you nation boys, saying you understand to deal with a lady proper. Effectively, solely a lady is aware of learn how to deal with a lady proper. She will get the job finished,” pop famous person Chappell Roan sang on stage throughout her November Saturday Evening Reside set.
The 27-year-old Grammy winner for greatest new artist, in head-to-toe pink cowgirl garb, carried out her then-unreleased new observe, “The Giver.” Now, 4 months later, Roan has launched the country-pop anthem after an in depth promotional rollout.
Final month, the “Pink Pony Membership” singer posted a photograph of herself in a swimsuit to Instagram with the caption: “The Lawyer. Ur ex’s worst nightmare + she will get the job DONE.” She then went on to put up a number of extra as a lawyer, together with photographs of herself as a plumber, a building employee and a dentist, all with the identical theme of her taking up a service employee gig and getting the job finished. Every character Roan takes on in her promotional materials has its personal vinyl; she’s promoting 5 vinyl single variations complete.
Roan and Co. additionally put up billboards in a number of cities, together with Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. The billboards featured Roan’s totally different personas and featured a telephone hotline (620-HOT-TO-GO), which led to a collection of previews of “The Giver,” in line with a launch.
Chappell Roan on a billboard for “The Giver.”
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“The Giver” is a traditional country-pop observe infused with quippy sapphic double entendres. Whereas totally different from Roan’s earlier releases, the world of nation appears to be one she is aware of properly. “[It] was so enjoyable to put in writing [‘The Giver’]. I bought to deliver what I knew to the desk as a result of I’m a rustic woman,” Roan stated days after her SNL efficiency at a Grammy Museum occasion.
“I’ve such a particular place in my coronary heart for nation music. I grew up listening to it each morning and afternoon on my faculty bus and had it swirling round me at bonfires, grocery shops and karaoke bars,” the singer stated in a launch Thursday evening.
The nation single is Roan’s first since her meteoric rise to pop famous person standing. Her final launch, one other single, was “Good Luck, Babe!” which was launched in April 2024 proper earlier than her Coachella look. Whereas it’s unclear what songs will make the singer’s subsequent studio album — she additionally carried out an unreleased observe, “The Subway,” at festivals final yr — Roan says her subsequent album is just not going to be fully nation.
“Proper now I’m simply making songs that make me really feel completely satisfied and enjoyable,” Roan stated in a launch. “‘The Giver’ is my tackle cuntry xoxo could the traditional nation divas lead their style, I’m simply right here to twirl and perform a little homosexual yodel for y’all.”
Beneath, take heed to Roan’s new observe, “The Giver.”
