The pink pony has galloped out of the club and ran away with the rodeo! This week’s episode of Saturday Night Live may have been hosted by John Mulaney and featured guest appearances from Pete Davidson, Andy Samberg, Dana Carvey, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph, and literally Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris, but it turns out all of that was just buildup to the main event of the evening: musical guest Chappell Roan debuted a brand new song! It’s called “The Giver,” and it’s a rootin’ tootin’ lesbian-country barnburner. Roan dressed in a Trixie Mattel-ish pink gingham getup and stomped her matching pink gingham cowgirl boots along to a rollicking fiddle while performing the new anthem about how she’s better at givin’ than any dick-swinging man. A lyric to illustrate: “Other boys may need a map / But I can close my eyes and have you wrapped around my fingers like that.”
The chorus, as is expected of Roan, is totally sing-along-able, with the catchy refrain “Ain’t no country boy quitter / I get the job done.” In the grand tradition of Roan songs like “Femininomenon,” she made the live studio audience scream with a spoken-word bridge when she said, “Only a woman knows how to treat a woman right!” Last week, Roan teased the track on Instagram with a series of Polaroids featuring the words “She gets the job done.” Boy does she ever.
