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Chappell Roan: The Giver review – saddle up, there’s a new sheriff in town
The midwest princess embraces her roots with a queer country banger about pleasure that toys with the genre’s gender and class cosplay
Now officially released, the latter is a rowdy deviation from Roan’s regular pure-pop melodrama, full of whoops and giddy fiddle solos reminiscent of the (Dixie) Chicks’ massive 90s hits. Chappell Roan: The Giver – videoA cynic might suggest that going country really is a risk-averse move: everyone from Beyoncé to Dumfries-born Calvin Harris has done it recently, nakedly lunging for a bite at Nashville’s commercial dominance. She offers up much a better fantasy: “How I look is how I touch,” a fairly ecstatic notion to conjure with given Roan’s usual wild, rococo costuming: no haphazard lick and a promise here.
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