No.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 18 July 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
what are you guys doing to this thread
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
riding it till we can't no mo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
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/
― clemenza, Friday, 19 July 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
Wait, so who is this Blanco Brown cat? My kids were just dancing to it. I guess country-rap is a thing (again)?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
yep, kinda.
In other news, I saw on Instagram that Blondie did "Old Town Road" live at Forest Hills last night
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
weird
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
new remix with bts
― maura, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.spin.com/2019/07/watch-blondie-cover-lil-nas-xs-old-town-road/
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― lion king 2: the gift and the curse (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
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"
― adam, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 25 July 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
also: we called the alphabet soup stuff a week ago!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 25 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
Can't help seeing that as Bind Torture Strangle
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 25 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
they also did "groove is in the heart" and "love to love you"
How was Harry's falsetto?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
I hope they did "Old Town Road" in falsetto.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― adam, Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
Is this going to be number one for eternity now. Will it still be number one in 2055 or during Futurama years?
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 25 July 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
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
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 25 July 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
BTS is the first one with diminishing returns for me
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 July 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
Lil Wayne REMIX Old Town Road @LilTunechi #Lollapalooza pic.twitter.com/DkCmNy67bj— TheNew1043JAMS (@1043JAMS) August 4, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
weezy's no mason ramsey
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 4 August 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
Waiting for the Neil Diamond remix
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 5 August 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
idg this song or its durability
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
My godson was singing it this weekend; he didn't sing "Despacito."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 August 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
no one should sing "Despacito"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
this song's gonna be dead as the floss in about a week
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 August 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
It will outlive us all.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 5 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
This song will be played in weddings decades from now.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
yep
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
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.
― dyl, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
YES
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 07:07 (four years ago) link
Has anyone done this at karaoke yet?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 08:39 (four years ago) link
My company is getting a karaoke machine and I predict it will be one of the first songs performed (not by me)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
i still hear i gotta feeling at weddings
― maura, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
― maura, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
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
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
i don't think it'd be fun to sing but the crowd reaction would prob make up for that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
My friend just did it at karaoke this weekend. At least it's a short song
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
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
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
otm, so much rests on where you choose to place the YEAAAAAAAAAAH
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
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
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Friday, 9 August 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
Eilish: the new CCR?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 9 August 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
the specific word/note where everything would go wrong, if it went wrong, is probably the first "road," that or not knowing the horse tack verse
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
or forgetting that that the correct pronunciation of "matte" is "matty"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
http://vm.tiktok.com/8hDvUD/
― maura, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
lmao
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
hahaha
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link