Chappell Roan made her Saturday Night Live debut with a powerful version of her breakthrough hit, and followed it with the premiere of her first country song, an unreleased song that will no doubt become a gay anthem.

Roan was the musical guest in the controversial SNL episode on Saturday (11/2) that was hosted by John Mulaney and contained cameos from Pete Davidson, Andy Samberg, Dana Carvey, Maya Rudolph and Vice President Kamala Harris (who Rudolph regularly imitates on the long-running show).

Although "Pink Pony Club" got its live debut back in 2021 two years before The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess was dropped, it had only been broadcast on TV one other time... on MTV, which isn't really TV any more, is it? Like did it air on actual TV sets?

Saturday Night Live is definitely TV. The program is currently in its 50th season and is bringing out the big guns to celebrate the milestone.

In TV history only four other programs have lasted five decades, Austin City Limits, The Tonight Show, and two soap operas: Days of our Lives and the British soap Coronation Street. For Chappell to appear on the last episode before the Presidential election should be considered a high honor.

The 26-year-old star who is no stranger to wild outfits embraced a Bride of Frankenstein meets Bonnie Raitt look for "Pink Pony Club." Her voluminous red wig was highlighted with dramatic silver streaks, complemented by over-the-top Kabuki/drag makeup she's known for.

A generous helping of smoke machine clouds billowed below her as her all-female band rocked out, Chappell sang to the national audience in front of a throne.

But it was during the guitar solo when the singer got on her knees in a way many hair metal bands have done in the past that she truly turned the tables on what should be expected. In a way it was foreshadowing.

What's also impressive was you can hear the audience singing the chorus with her. Something rare at SNL.

At the end of the song she joyously yelled out the sole line that has been uttered at each of the 973 episodes: Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

Chappell's appearance was the conclusion of a manifestation 13 years in the making when a teenage Kayleigh Amstutz (her given name) tweeted she would make it onto the famous stage at 30 Rock.

Sharp-eyed Chappell Roan (and fine art) fans noticed how similarly her promo shot was to an 80 year old painting, "The White Cockade" by Walt Kuhn, best known for his portraits of circus and vaudeville performers.

Her look seems inspired by Kuhn's painting of a woman in an aqua costume, and distinctive hat adorned in a white cockade—a traditional emblem often associated with 18th-century military attire.

The surprise of the night was when she performed "The Giver," which many fans thought was called "She Gets The Job Done."

Dancing around in pink and white gingham, a cowboy hat, nylons and cowboy boots, Chappell sang about how no one knows how to treat a woman like another woman.

I know the boys may need a map
But I can close my eyes
And have you wrapped around my fingers
Like that

So does the addition of a fiddler, and this song's style mean Chappell's forthcoming sophomore album will go the way of Post Malone, Beyoncé and (probably) Lana Del Rey: country?

One may remember in March, Chappell had a fiddler as well as a cellist.

Hopefully what this song represents is her ability to cross over into any genre she feels serves the song best.

Wild prediction: the kids will be dancing to "The Giver" at Pink Pony Clubs everywhere, not just country bunkers.

Chappell has no appearances on her schedule at this time but if you go to her website you can sign up for her mailing list.

She'll get the job done.