Chappell Roan Debuts Lesbian Country Song “The Giver” on “Saturday Night Live”

Your passion is… country?

Chappell Roan went from the Pink Pony Club to the Country Club on “Saturday Night Live,” surprising fans both visually and sonically for her second number of the show, the premiere of a brand new song, “The Giver.” Country switched “, which combines C&W with LGBTQ.

“I get the job done,” Roan sang in the chorus of the new song, which shares a theme with “Femininomenon,” arguing that sometimes (or always?) pleasing one woman is a job best done to a fellow woman leaves.

“All the country boys say you know how to threaten a woman right,” Roan said during a spoken word on the sidelines of the song – “Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right. She gets the job done.”

In this second appearance near the end of the show, Roan was still wearing the large red wig with white streaks that marked her first appearance, when she previously performed her signature song “Pink Pony Club.” Other than that, everything was different, right down to Roan's backup singers and his all-female band switching to old-school jeans and western shirts, while Roan reemerged in a gingham-style halter top, short shorts, and boots could almost come straight from “The Dukes of Hazzard”.

Only “Dukes” didn't have much to do with it: Roan clearly celebrated the Duchesses of Hazzard, with moderately risqué lyrics about giving and receiving partners and reassuring that “it's just in my nature to take it like a taker.” and “You don’t need to hurry.”

Cartoon bears and other animated forest animals watched as Roan's suddenly violin-driven band brought home the country banger.

Although the song title was not known before its debut on “SNL” and fans guessed from the chorus that it was called “She Gets the Job Done,” NBC subsequently posted a portion of the performance on social media with a caption revealing that it was ” “The Giver” is called.

Last week, Roan posted a photo of herself with the LP sleeve of her debut album and hinted in the caption that it would soon be replaced with a new one, although no indication of a recording or release schedule was made. (“The album kind of fell through in my opinion, but it’s time to welcome a hot new bombshell to the villa,” she wrote, picking up a catchphrase from the TV reality series “Love Island.”) But Her producer/co-writer Dan Nigro In a recent interview with the New York Times, he gave hints about how the second album will continue. He said they've made five tracks so far – noting that one of them is a “fun, uptempo country song” that features “a fiddle…a new version of Chappell.”

Previously on “SNL,” Roan sang “Pink Pony Club” and turned off the mic for the final pre-chorus so the studio audience could sing it on her behalf. Perhaps the show's audio engineers turned up the ambient noise more than normal, but it sounded like the entire audience was made up of die-hard Roan fans, judging by the volume of the sing-alongs coming through the TV speakers.

At the end of “Pink Pony Club,” Roan shouted “Live from New York!” and repeated the show's traditional cold open tagline – the only time in his memory that a musical guest has done that – in what seemed like a spontaneous exclamation Triumph at how thrilling the performance had been, or even scene-stealing chutzpah.

It took Roan 13 years to appear on the show, or at least he dreamed of it. Earlier this week, she posted on her social media a screenshot of a Facebook post she had written in April 2011, when she would have been 13, under her stage name Kayleigh Amstutz, in which she prophetically wrote: “I am determined to be there to be “SNL.”

Roan's move into country is likely an isolated incident and not a significant change in direction, as Nigro stated in his interview with The New York Times that only one of the songs they worked on for the second album was a country number. (She also used concerts to premiere another new, non-country song, “Subway.”) Whatever the case, she's one of several major pop artists to take on the genre recently, with Beyoncé joining her have and Post Malone both released country albums this year and Lana Del Rey has been working on one for some time.

Of course, Roan's new song isn't the first lesbian country song. Among them is the Highwomen's “If She Ever Leaves Me,” and points of comparison in this burgeoning subgenre may emerge as a topic of conversation when Brandi Carlile moderates a discussion with Roan and Nigro in Los Angeles this week.

Now the big question: Will Roan be invited to do his job with an appearance on the Grand Ole Opry?