Chappelle Roan debuts new lesbian country song on Saturday Night Live

Its kink is… a country?

Chappell Roan went from the Pink Pony Club to the country club on “Saturday Night Live” surprised fans by going country in both look and sound for her second number on the show, premiering a brand new song that unites C&W with LGBTQ+.

“I’m doing my job,” Roan sang in the chorus of the new song, which shares a theme with “Femininomenon,” arguing that pleasing a woman sometimes (or is it always?) is a job best left to another woman.

“All you country boys say you know the right way to threaten a woman,” Roan said during the conversation in the song. “Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman properly. She gets the job done.”

For her second appearance at the end of the show, Roan was still wearing the large red wig with white stripes that marked her original look when she previously performed her signature song, “Pink Pony Club.” Additionally, everything was different, to the point that Roan’s backing singers and girl group switched to old school jeans and plaid shirts, while Roan reappeared in a tank top, short shorts, and boots that could be real. from The Dukes of Hazzard.

Except that the dukes had little to do with it: Roan clearly celebrated the duchesses of Hazzard, using mildly risqué lyrics about partners who give and receive, and assurances that “it’s just in my nature to see it as a taker” and “you there is no need to rush.”

Cartoon bears and other animated forest animals watched as Roan’s band, suddenly playing a violin, drove the village bully home.

Roan did not immediately announce or release the official title of the new song, which sounds like it will be either “I Get the Job Done” or “She Get the Job Done.”

Last week, Roan posted a photo of herself with the cover of her debut album and suggested in the caption that it would be replaced by a new one, although no hints on a recording or release schedule were offered.

Previously on “SNL,” Roan performed “Pink Pony Club” and muted the microphone for the final chorus so the studio audience could sing along on her behalf. The show’s sound engineers may have turned up the ambient sound more than usual, but judging by the volume of the sing-alongs coming through the televisions, it sounded like the entire audience might have been dedicated Roan fans.

Roan’s performance was 13 years in the making, or at least dreamed of. Earlier this week, she posted on her social media a screenshot of a Facebook post she made in April 2011 under her pre-stage name Kaylee Amstutz that read, “I’m determined to be on SNL.”

Roan’s new song is certainly not the first lesbian country song. Among them is the Highwomen’s “If She Ever Leaves Me,” and points of comparison in this growing subgenre may be a talking point when Brandi Carlile moderates a discussion with Roan and her producer Dan Nigro in Los Angeles this week.