Femme Tops, It’s Your Time to Shine

Well, everyone, happy Femme-Top Fall. If you’ve been having trouble getting into the spirit, Chappell Roan’s got you with a rootin’-tootin’ new country anthem. This week on Saturday Night Live, the lesbian pop star debuted her unreleased song “The Giver,” which is about being really, really good at getting women off. “When you need the job done / Call me, baby,” she sings to a girl whose world she’s about to rock. Jury’s out on whether the song is about strap, though I have to assume it is given that Roan had an entire set of nails on.

“The Giver” challenges the idea that femmes have no game, forever twiddling their thumbs, waiting for the other person to initiate. Shyness has never been Roan’s problem; she’s not getting locked in “‘You’re so pretty’ — ‘No, you’re so pretty’” stalemates. In her music, she is always explicit about her agenda: “You just told me, want me to fuck you / Baby, I will ’cause I really want to,” she sings in “Red Wine Supernova,” a song in which she famously brags about her “wand” and “rabbit.” (Her fans have already gone ahead with calling her “Strappell” after she wore a harness-type thing at ACL.) “The Giver” is full of blush-inducing come-ons that establish that Roan won’t just sleep with women — she’ll give them the time of their life: “And other boys may need a map / But I can close my eyes / And have you wrapped around my fingers like that.” Try those lines out the next time you’re at Queer Country.

Roan gives another lashing to the unfortunate demographic known as men, whom she accuses of not only wearing fugly jeans but being clueless sexually. “All you country boys saying you know how to treat a woman right / Well, only a woman knows how to treat a woman right,” she taunts. After she steals their girl, they’ll be on their own. Good luck, babe.

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