Chappell Roan ‘Gets the Job Done,’ Debuting New Lesbian Country Song on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic 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 both look and sound for her second number of the show, the premiere of a brand new song that marries C&W with LGBTQ+. “I get the job done,” Roan sang in the refrain of the new song, which shares a theme with “Femininomenon” in making the argument that pleasing a woman is sometimes (or always?) a job best left to a fellow woman. “All you country boys saying you know how to threat a woman right,” Roan said during a spoken word aside in the song — “Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right.
She gets the job done.” For this second appearance late in the show, Roan was still wearing the large red wig with white streaks that marked her initial look when she earlier performed her signature song “Pink Pony Club.” Apart from that, everything was different, all the way to Roan’s background singers and all-female band having switched to old-school denim and Western-wear shirts, while Roan reappeared in a gingham-style halter top, short-shorts and boots that almost could have been right out of “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Except “dukes” didn’t have much to do with it: Roan was distinctly celebrating the duchesses of Hazzard, with moderately risque lyrics about partners giving and receiving and the assurance that “it’s just in my nature to take it like a taker” and “you don’t need to hurry.” Cartoon bears and other animated forest animals looked on as Roan’s suddenly fiddle-powered band drove the country banger home.Chappell Roan performing her brand new single ‘She Gets The Job Done’ on SNL! ✨ pic.twitter.com/WjCxpSlXxF Roan did not immediately announce or post an official title for the new song, which from the sound of it is likely to be either “I Get the Job Done” or “She Gets the Job Done.” This past week, Roan posted a photo of herself with the album cover of her.
