In pop, 2024 was also the year of Chappell Roan and his Good Luck, babe!. In recent weeks the singer has scattered clues about her next move, a song decidedly influenced by the country named The Giver.
The Americans had an anticipation by calling a phone number (now deactivated). They have seen billboards around the United States. And Roan sang it at the Saturday Night Live. Now The Giver It has a release date on March 14 (on the evening of 13 for those in the United States), and a description provided by the pop star on Instagram.
The piece was written with Dan Nigro, author, musician and producer increasingly important in American pop, see the collaboration with Olivia Rodrigo. “Dan and I,” Roan writes “we wrote it together and it was a walk. I had never done a country piece, which has a special place in my heart. I grew up listening to that kind of music on the bus that led me to school every morning. He felt like bonfires, in shops, karaoke ».
“Many people ask me if they mean I'm doing a country disc. The answer is … mmm, at the moment I'm making songs that make me happy and that they amuse me. The Giver It is my version of the Cuntry (Xoxo) », a sort of querry variant of the country. Roan leaves the genre at Divasshe is here to “make gay Yodel for all of you”. Months ago, Roan said that until then the album was rather varied, with pieces that went from the country (precisely) to the 80s pop, with an acoustic song and another full of references to music from live bands' 70s.
In advertising billboards and in some Instagram posts used to launch the preorder of the song, Roan appears in the role of a lawyer, “the nightmare of your ex”. In the new post she is instead a construction worker and in other photos she posed a plumbing and dentist from plumbers, a multiplication of characters who refers to the imagination of the Village People, but above all workers who, see the lyrics of the song, complete the work, in this case to entertain a girl.
“In this city full of shopping centers I wish you good luck if you want to find a man who is able to be with one Rhinestone Cowgirl all night ”, says the text of the version listened to at Snl (see below), with the expression Rhinestone Cowgirl which refers to the classic of Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy. And again: “There is no hurry, baby, because they are one who does things to them, I'm not a country boy who stops easily, I carry it out.” In other words, “when you need to complete a job, call me”.
Yes, the work is that And Roan makes it clear at the beginning of the piece singing that “the boys need a map”, while she can do it with your eyes closed. Because, as one of the key passages states, which is recited in the piece listened on TV, “only a woman knows how another woman is well”.
