Lesbians, pause that Gabby Windey video because Chappell Roan has a new single out. “The Giver” is a ’90s country-pop anthem about how girls are just better — better generally, but especially in bed. “Good luck finding a man who has the means / To rhinestone cowgirl all night long,” Chappell teases on the track. Unlike those “country-boy quitters” you wrangled from Hinge, she’s not cramping up. Chappell first debuted “The Giver” last year on Saturday Night Live, then, in the lead-up to its release, she put up billboards of herself in various vocational getups all over the country with the hotline number 620-HOT-TO-GO.
In a press statement, Roan said that she has a “special place in my heart for country music” and grew up listening to it on the bus to school. As to whether “The Giver” means she’s pivoting from pop, don’t worry: “I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for y’all.” Accompanying the single is an infomercial-style lyric video in which she shows up as an assortment of career women, including the Construction Woman (“she can fix you”), the Detective (“I know what you are”), and the Lawyer (“You’ll Love My Briefs”). Looks like I’ll be consulting the yellow pages tonight.
