Though it briefly appeared on the show’s YouTube channel late Saturday night, Chappell Roan‘s Saturday Night Live performance of “The Giver” has since been removed.
After a rousing performance of “Pink Pony Club” earlier in the evening, Roan surprised fans when she returned for her second performance of the night and debuted the new queer country song. Decked out in a halter top, short-shorts and boots, the “Midwest Princess” wowed the enthusiastic crowd with the fiddle-forward banger.
“All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right,” Roan said during a spoken-word interlude in the song—“Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right. She gets the job done.”
Though Roan’s performance of “The Giver” was posted to SNL‘s YouTube around 2:00am PT late Saturday night alongside her earlier performance of “Pink Pony Club,” by morning only “Pony” remained—on both SNL and Roan’s YouTube channels.
While it wasn’t immediately clear why the SNL version of the song was removed from YouTube, a fan-uploaded version posted to Twitter (and embedded below) has amassed over three million views as of this writing, and an official studio version of “The Giver” was released overnight to Spotify.
Chappell Roan’s full hq performance of ‘The Giver’, her new cuntry single, live on SNL! 🤍 pic.twitter.com/NdKLmqXRpw
— best of chappell roan (@bestofchappell) November 3, 2024
We’ve reached out to NBC for comment and will update this post when/if the performance is re-posted to YouTube and/or we receive any information we can share.
