Chappell Roan shares “lesbian country song” “The Giver”

Four months after she debuted the song on Saturday Night Live, Chappell Roan has officially unveiled her new “lesbian country song,” “The Giver.” Hear it below.

“I can’t call myself the Midwest princess and not acknowledge country music, straight up,” she told Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson on a recent episode of Amazon Music’s Country Heat Weekly Podcast. “That is what is around me in the grocery stores. That’s what is playing on the bus…I know that my heart really wanted to write a country song, and I’m trying to really articulate that it’s not me trying to cross genres and be like, hey, you know, ‘Look at me.’ I’m not trying to convince a country crowd that they should listen to my music by baiting them with a country song. That’s not what I feel like I’m doing. I just think a lesbian country song is really funny, so I wrote that.”

“I wrote a country song not to invade country music,” she added, “but to really capture what I think, the essence of country music is, for me, which is nostalgia, and fun in the summertime, and the fiddle, and the banjo feeling like country queen. It makes me feel a certain type of freedom that pop music doesn’t let me feel.”

This is Chappell’s first new single since last year’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” and she wrote on Instagram recently, “Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is.. right now I’m just making songs that make me feel happy and fun and The Giver is my take on cuntry xoxo may the classic country divas lead their genre, I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for y’all.”

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