While Chappell Roan debuted her new single, “The Giver”, to a national TV audience on Saturday Night Live more than four months ago, the video of the lavish performance was conspicuously withheld as the Missouri-native pop darling continued to ride the momentum of 2024 single “Good Luck, Babe”, 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and a virtually unprecedented surge in cultural clout to a Best New Artist win at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Now that the country romp has officially arrived, Roan has added to the fanfare surrounding “The Giver” by finally sharing the song’s live debut on SNL.

Opting as always for over-the-top production, Chappell Roan—dressed in Parton-esque farm girl drag—added a number of cartoon-like accoutrements to the iconic Saturday Night Live stage for her debut of “The Giver” including various animals, plants, trees, stone walls, and more. At stage right, a backwoods signpost indicated a peculiar crossroads underlying Roan’s story: Tennessee, the country capitol and lyrical stand-in for her Midwest hometown in one of her biggest hits; Santa Monica, a stone’s throw from the “Pink Pony Club”; and Manhattan, where she was gracing the Studio 8H stage—and where another of her hits got naked that one time. Watch the newly shared video of Chappell Roan debuting “The Giver” on SNL below.

Chappell Roan – “The Giver” (Live) – SNL – 11/2/24
 

While the prominent fiddle part and other assorted country elements of “The Giver” are certainly a departure from the pop sound for which Roan is known, the song’s anthemic quality and cheeky entendres feel like a perfect fit in the Chappell universe. As the 27-year-old explained in a post about the song ahead of its release, she thinks of the song less as a country crossover and more as an homage to the country music that helped inform her music taste while growing up in the Midwest.

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“[Recent Producer of the Year Grammy-winner] Dan Nigro and I wrote this together and it was so fun!!!” Chappell wrote in a post. “We’ve never done a country song and I have such a special place in my heart for country music. I grew up listening to it every morning and afternoon on my school bus and had it swirling around me at bon fires, grocery stores and karaoke bars. Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is.. hmm 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 yall.”

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She expounded upon her relationship with country music earlier this week in an extended interview with Apple Music. Watch that interview as well as the official lyric video for new Chappell Roan single “The Giver” below.

Chappell Roan – “The Giver” (Official Lyric Video)
 

Chappell Roan Talks “The Giver” & Country Music Roots
 

While Chappell Roan’s 2025 tour schedule is currently confined to a run of summer festival appearances overseas, she has remained in domestic headlines thanks to her highly publicized call for record labels to provide mental health and medical care to developing artists during her Best New Artist Grammy Award acceptance speech. As outlined in a recent Billboard feature, she eventually partnered with Backline to launch the We Got You! campaign with “$25,000 donations from Roan, Charli XCX and Noah Kahan (who had previously partnered with Backline to provide mental healthcare for all 78 band and crew members on his We’ll Be Here Forever Tour). Billed as a campaign ‘to support artists’ mental health,’ We Got You! has resulted in an influx of donations to the nonprofit, including matching $25,000 donations from Sabrina Carpenter, Live Nation, AEG, the Wasserman Foundation, Guy Oseary, Sumerian Records and the Hinterland Festival, among others. Since launch, the campaign has netted the organization $353,000 and, perhaps more importantly, raised its public profile overnight.” Read more about Chappell Roan and Backline’s We Got You! campaign here.