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

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."

no one should sing "Despacito"

this song's gonna be dead as the floss in about a week

It will outlive us all.

This song will be played in weddings decades from now.

yep

i wouldn't be mad if so (i sure do hope society will still exist decades from now!) but it's possible it won't be. predictions about the encroaching ubiquity of "i gotta feeling" for instance seemed completely reasonable at the time but didn't quite come true? idk maybe you would disagree w/ that assessment

that said, i feel like mainstream pop music is finally starting to push through its growing pains from the past few years to usher in something of a sea change for how it'll largely sound going forward, and i find it hard to believe that this song won't be seen as foundational & catalytic on some level

not to say it's especially novel or that its sonic elements haven't been scattered elsewhere thruout the pop landscape for the past decade+, but the way its seemingly irreverent combination of elements so strongly associated w/ (recently) very narrowly targeted lanes in broadcast media was embraced so wholeheartedly and so broadly was quite unique and probably served as something of a wakeup call to the industry + gatekeepers.

like, above all others that have slowly chipped away at the mold, this is the song that has exposed the normative media strategy over the past five years of radio for the sham that it was. like, hello, okay, so crossover DOES still exist! -- members of the public DO indeed still want to feel like they exist in the same fucking world as their neighbors! now it's time to get with the program, and keep it moving.

YES

Has anyone done this at karaoke yet?

My company is getting a karaoke machine and I predict it will be one of the first songs performed (not by me)

i still hear i gotta feeling at weddings

Has anyone done this at karaoke yet?

Mid-May of this year, I was putting together a karaoke list with my students* and they all agreed on this song. No one actually chose it come time for us to actually do the karaoke but it was unanimously chosen as a good option.

*young adults mostly of hispanic heritage, one Nigerian lady

i don't think it'd be fun to sing but the crowd reaction would prob make up for that

My friend just did it at karaoke this weekend. At least it's a short song

seems like one of those songs where before you're done singing the first line you'll know you either nailed it or you're in for a long 2:04

otm, so much rests on where you choose to place the YEAAAAAAAAAAH

interesting with this chart record also is that billie eilish must have been sat doggedly at number 2 now for quite a significant amount of weeks also