Backlash after Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" removed from Billboard Hot Country chart

two weeks away from the longest lived number one in chart history
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8520176/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-history-five-burning-questions

and likely to make it there in the homestretch on the back of area 51 memedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7xDP9sQzk

i got y’all for free!
let’s do this shit! https://t.co/l09PRGGMQj pic.twitter.com/LEMR4CSesg

— nope (@LilNasX) July 14, 2019

mason ramsey and lil nas x proving the existence of extraterrestrial life would maybe justify our life inside the simulation

Big look for Anthony fantano

The next level approaches.

y’all think i can get dolly parton and megan thee stallion on a old town road remix?

— nope (@LilNasX) July 15, 2019

🐴🦄 @LilNasX https://t.co/jD8WgNNNPI pic.twitter.com/WQWwW7sbi2

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) July 17, 2019

i'm all for him keeping this at number one through the end of the year if only for the novelty

can't wait for Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Drake's appearances

maybe just start going through the alphabet
feat. björk, blueface and asha bhosle

Burna Boy for Billy Ray, Busiswa for Dolly P = African remix

Been waiting for Dolly and Willie to do it.

speaking of the alphabet you know zz top's version would rule

I like to think that was the product of you making 26 alliterative lists of feature artists

Been waiting for Dolly and Willie to do it.

lads

zz top and bun b

peep and xxx

Feat. Y2K, YG, E-40, EMF, AOC and AC/DC (PDQ Bach "Alphabet Soup" Remix) - sponsored by KFC

LFO remix:
"Cowboy hat from Gucci
Wrangler on my booty
Itchy and Scratchy had a dog named Poochie"

zz top and bun b

didn’t mean for that to sound catty!

LFO remix:

idgi (and also a little late to get them/him, at least there’s a few broken husks of men being propped up in a studio to make a final AC/DC album over another husk’s tapes)

now that you mention it, i bet axl would totally be down for this

ZZ Top actually did a “cover” of Houston rap classic “25 lighters” but you probably already know this
― brimstead, Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:22 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

didn’t mean for that to sound catty!

― brimstead, Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:23 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

didn't sound catty! but i did know that....i saw an article once that billy gibbon's studio was popular with a lot of houston rappers

xpost well-adjusted, semi-woke axl rose is one of the weirdest developments in music of the last decade

idgi (and also a little late to get them/him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20

No.

what are you guys doing to this thread

riding it till we can't no mo

You'd have to like the song to really like these words; I do, and I do.

As the late great Hunter S. Thompson would say, it’s a savage journey to the heart of the American dream. It defines the yeehaw state of mind. At a moment of nationwide apocalypse, it’s a love letter to everything that used to be cool about this once-proud land, the final stand of the last great American jukebox hero.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/old-town-road-lil-nas-x-yeehaw-manifesto-859566/

Wait, so who is this Blanco Brown cat? My kids were just dancing to it. I guess country-rap is a thing (again)?

yep, kinda.

In other news, I saw on Instagram that Blondie did "Old Town Road" live at Forest Hills last night

weird

new remix with bts

https://www.spin.com/2019/07/watch-blondie-cover-lil-nas-xs-old-town-road/

saw that last night, came right after rapture. wasn't a very good version, but was fun to see all the olds try to figure out what song it was.

i saw blondie do "old town road" at bethel woods upstate on saturday! it is my daughter's favorite song and she was fucking thrilled. they also did "groove is in the heart" and "love to love you"

the sub-two minute "Seoul Town Road" BTS remix feels like it should carry this for two more weeks at #1 and then (maybe?) he can lean into rodeo/panini with a video or something? both those tracks are slipping and i dunno if he missed his window to transition into the next hit or not.

also: we called the alphabet soup stuff a week ago!

Can't help seeing that as Bind Torture Strangle

they also did "groove is in the heart" and "love to love you"

How was Harry's falsetto?

I hope they did "Old Town Road" in falsetto.

she sounded great for 74!

there's a version of the video without the "plot" that comes in at a cool 2:37, enough for a toddler to get her OTR fix and move on.

Is this going to be number one for eternity now. Will it still be number one in 2055 or during Futurama years?

the year is 2050, stuart little is president, the 10 year world war led by shrek & thanos has ended. old town road has reached its 1,615th week at number one and brother nature has stopped global warming. the world is at peace.

— nope (@LilNasX) May 28, 2019

BTS is the first one with diminishing returns for me

I think of it like a marriage between royal families where the primary function (beyond aforementioned ZTT-esque chart goosing) is making it clear to concerned parties on stan twitter that this alliance has been forged, and on that level I think it's pretty unimpeachable.

And it's hit 17 weeks. Chris Molanphy on it all:

https://slate.com/culture/2019/07/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-billboard-chart-record-longest-number-1.html

Lil Wayne REMIX Old Town Road @LilTunechi #Lollapalooza pic.twitter.com/DkCmNy67bj

— TheNew1043JAMS (@1043JAMS) August 4, 2019

weezy's no mason ramsey

Waiting for the Neil Diamond remix

idg this song or its durability

My godson was singing it this weekend; he didn't sing "Despacito."