At long last, the official "Old Town Road" music video has arrived, and it has everything we could have imagined: Billy Ray Cyrus, bank robbery, Diplo on the washboard, a game of Bingo, not-subtle Snapple ads, and glam cowboy outfits, to name a few. The TikTok-beloved song is ...
“Old Town Road” might be the biggest debut single of all time, the year’s most popular tune, a history-making smash, the mass phenomenon of 2019. And yet it goes deeper than that. Every weird strain of American culture is in this song somewhere, as Lil Nas X rides his tract...
The most obvious example is Lil Nas X, who did the unthinkable in 2019 occupying a record 19 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts with his country-rap song Old Town Road. The runaway success of the song, which went viral on TikTok, was a clear indicator to the musi...
sparking a debate on the definition of the genre. Had it not been disqualified, "Old Town Road" would have been the Hot Country Songs number-one song, as of the chart
The Old Town Road EffectPosted on January 1, 2020 by Solonor It’s time for the annual update to Dr. Demento’s TOP 100 (or so) DEMENTED HITS (from Funny 25’s)! This year saw a few shifts in the rankings, as three songs from previous years re-appeared and earned enough points ...
On the beginnings of "Old Town Road": "The line just comes to me" Lil Nas X told King that got the idea for the lyrics while listening to the beat – which he later leased for just $30. "I'm just following the melody of the beginning, and then the line just comes to me,"...
By the way, Billboard has to make these sorts of judgments every week for all its genre charts and “Old Town Road” did top the list of their Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in March 2019. Although Lil Nas X submitted the song for consideration in rap categories at the Grammy Awards, the ...
Because “Old Town Road” is a big-ass hit and I want the songs that he brings out now to hit like that. I’m really trying hard to get new songs in the hip-hop community. I’ve sent him more country-trap stuff, some guitar stuff that I’ve played, but I’m also ...
From classic country rap tunes to Lil Nas X's viral sensation "Old Town Road," here is the evolution of country rap music.
2019年，Lil Nas X专为TikTok创作的《Old Town Road》反响火热，从舞池歌厅到各种手机软件不绝于耳，在2019年就让许多音乐市场中人大跌眼镜，并将之归咎于网络文化的不确定性和善变性。这次直接跳回两百年前的海船号子，似乎也符合这种被成其为规律的规律。但这背后还有一个意想不到的推手——游戏。从经典的《...