After a lot teasing, Chappell Roan has lastly launched her new track “The Giver.” Impressed by traditional pop-country hits like Massive & 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 the monitor, produced by Daniel Nigro, under.
“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 bon fires, 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 comfortable and enjoyable and ‘The Giver’ is my tackle cuntry xoxo might the traditional 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 Evening Dwell final yr. Throughout that efficiency, Roan wore a pink gingham leather-based set by designer Zana Bayne—a riff on cowboy buckskins—and carried out in entrance of a inexperienced display screen with an enormous 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 Nation Warmth 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 essentially seize what I believe 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 kind of freedom that pop music doesn’t let me really feel.”
On the 2025 Grammy Awards, Roan carried out her The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess track “Pink Pony Membership” and took dwelling the trophy for Greatest 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 Greatest Songs of 2024.” Plus, take a look at the brand new evaluate of “The Giver.”
