Chappell Roan Goes Country Glam in Her SNL "The Giver" Performance: Watch
The "Good Luck, Babe!" singer performed her new single for the first time on the November 2 SNL.
Chappell Roan went country when she was the Musical Guest on Saturday Night Live.
For the November 2, 2024 episode, the marvelous Midwest Princess performed one of her biggest hits, "Pink Pony Club" — and treated viewers to a brand-new, then-unreleased country track, "The Giver." Watch Roan sing it, backed by a full band including a fiddle, above.
Chappell Roan performed "The Giver" on John Mulaney's SNL episode
Roan was dressed in country-western glam for her SNL performance, debuting her new song in a pink gingham getup and big hair that would make Dolly Parton proud.
Backed by an all-woman band, the stage was transformed into a full-on forest jamboree — with Roan dancing in front of trees, wagon wheels, and even some cartoon country bears bopping in the back.
Chappell Roan officially released "The Giver" on March 13
For months following the song's live SNL debut, Roan's fans begged the singer to officially drop the countrified bop. After weeks of teasing, she finally released "The Giver" on March 13.
In a March 14 interview with Apple Music's Kelleigh Bannen, Roan called country music "so incredibly camp... I don't know if people want to admit that."
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"I think I have a special relationship to where I'm from because of country music and so to honor that part of myself by making a country song, where it's like you know what? Yes, I'm gay, and yes, I am ultra-pop," she told Bannen. "Yes, I am a drag queen that can also perform a country song."
"I wanted to write a country song because I just thought it would be funny," Roan continued. "It's campy and it's fun. I'm from Southwest Missouri, grew up on Christian and Country, and then found 'Alejandro' by Lady Gaga and I was like, 'I think I like this too.'"
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"I love myself for loving country music and I love myself that I came around the other side," she said in her Apple Music interview. "I love myself so much that I took a leap into a pretty painful part of my past in the Midwest and made a song of joy."
Get ready to feel some joy and join the campy country jamboree in her live performance of "The Giver" on SNL.
