Chappell Roan Debuts New Lesbian Country Song on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Her kink is… country?
Chappell Roan went from the “Pink Pony Club” to the country club on “Saturday Night Live,” surprising fans by going country in look and sound for her second song of the show, premiering a brand new song that marries C&W to LGBTQ+ .
“I get the job done,” Roan sang in the chorus of the new song, which shares a theme with “Femininomenon” and makes the argument that pleasing a woman is sometimes (or always?) a task best done can be left to a fellow woman.
“All the country boys who say you know how to treat a woman right,” Roan said during a spoken word aside to the song, “Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right.” She gets the job done.”
In this second appearance late in the show, Roan was still wearing the big red wig with white stripes that marked her initial appearance, when she previously sang her signature song “Pink Pony Club.” Other than that, everything was different, right down to Roan’s backing singers and all-female band switching to old-fashioned denim and plaid shirts, while Roan reappeared in a halter top, shorts and boots that could have looked good. from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’.
Only the dukes didn’t have much to do with it; Roan was clearly celebrating the Duchesses of Hazzard, with some fairly risqué lyrics about partners who give and receive and the assurance that “it’s just in my nature to take it as a taker” and “there’s no need to rush.”
Roan did not immediately announce or post an official title for the new song. Judging by the sound of it, this will probably be “I Get the Job Done” or “She Gets the Job Done.”
This past week, Roan posted a photo of herself holding the cover art of her debut album and suggested in the caption that it was about to be replaced with a new one, although no indication of a timetable for recording or release was given.
Previously on “SNL,” Roan sang “Pink Pony Club” and the microphone went off for the final pre-chorus so the studio audience could sing it on her behalf. Perhaps the show’s audio technicians turned up the ambient noise louder than normal, but it sounded like the entire audience was made up of die-hard Roan fans based on the volume of the singalongs coming through the television sets.
Roan’s new song is of course not the first lesbian country song. Among them is the Highwomen’s “If She Ever Leaves Me,” and points of comparison in this burgeoning subgenre could become a talking point when Brandi Carlile leads a conversation with Roan and her producer Dan Nigro in Los Angeles this week.
