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

i rode for "montero" it was pretty catchy. this song is grim honestly, breastcrawl otm

I don’t really like his music at all…

it is a step down from "montero" yeah. ironically that one had a lower memeable lyric quotient but was probably better for it. he should save the screengrababble memey stuff for the videos honestly

i think i misheard "i ain't lost since i began" as "i ain't lost since i been gay" which is too bad as the latter would be better

jack harlow is not a selling point

And now

creating this album has been therapy for me. i’ve learned to let go of trying to control people’s perception of who i am, what i can do, and where i will be. i’ve realized the only opinion of me that really matters is my own.

MY DEBUT ALBUM
“MONTERO” 🦋💕
IS YOURS
SEPTEMBER 17th pic.twitter.com/VBFKU70ntj

— nope 👶🏾 (@LilNasX) August 26, 2021

no idea if this'll actually be a good record or not, but he's done a good job in building up hype for the album. it's nice to have an event album come out that actually feels exciting

Beat sounds like it was made for Nelly

it was! made for a nelly that is ha ha

okay lol

just now catching up on this guy, this thread, and "Old Town Road." seems pretty awesome all around. my one contribution is that "Panini" to me seems to have a LOT more to do with "Your Smiling Face" by James Taylor than "In Bloom." which is cool imo.

I still think most of his music is hot garbage but I also want him to be wildly successful

the correct opinion

Basically artists like him need to exist and excel and I’m happy to see it happening for him. (And people I know love him and this makes them happy too. So it’s cool. Also the “Olde Town Road” video was aces in a camp surrealist way I appreciated.)

yeah he is an excellent popstar except for the music, if he was famous when I was 15 years old he would probably have been a massive icon for me

Annnnnd

https://t.co/iqhwxFeq1i

— MONTERO 🦋 (@LilNasX) September 17, 2021

And if you just want the new video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYDRA5JPLE

The game remains unmatched.

make sure you listen to the album at least 309 times before judging #MONTERO

— MONTERO 🦋 (@LilNasX) September 17, 2021

that is the first song of his I haven't wanted to turn off

so has anyone listened to his album or are we just going to listen to it eventually through tweets, videos, and memes

haven't listened yet (will do so after work) but uh it's got a 90 on metacritic so far??? only 7 reviews in but still

https://www.metacritic.com/music/montero/lil-nas-x/critic-reviews

video brought back sad memories :( but it's nice that he is putting this stuff front and center, being super casual about it and actually being seen as rly cool for it

ok on first impression this album's a lot darker than his meme-filled antics would suggest. it's also quite good

are ppl itt still lukewarm on ‘montero’ (the song)? i had a similar initial reaction but it’s really grown on me to the point it’s now prob one of my fav singles of the year. ‘that’s what i want’ otoh way more immediate. feels like it’ll be a big hit. love the chorus

I vastly preferred, the first thing he's done that registered as music first.

This has a few slinky jams. I'm glad M@ura's review pointed out the abundant use of guitars.

*vastly preferred "Sun Goes Down."

ya that ones great

I’m not lukewarm on the song Montero; it’s bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjnC8HSRdU

lol of course it's fucking jolene

hostile

it's ok. i think he's getting better as a singer maybe. i'm still not sure if it's refreshing or disappointing that he's like an above-average karoake singer.

That's what I concluded too.

I have more of an issue with the slow buildup of the backing band than I do with his performance; it's not like he's this amazing vocal or even idiosyncratic talent you want to hear isolated, let the band support him plz

lol that was supposed to read "amazing or even idiosyncratic vocal talent", I would like to help fund an edit button

really lackluster jolene there. i suppose i should try the new album.

No one should be allowed to cover "Jolene" anymore. It's reached the status of "Hallelujah" or "Heroes" - it's completely wrung out.

going on Maury is just another viral stunt from him, right

impressively, Old Town Road Remix is apparently no longer his most streamed track

My 7-year-old sang most of Old Town Road in the car last week, no idea how/where he learned the lyrics.

It was included in the kids vaccine

The man is an icon

the prophecy has been fulfilled. pic.twitter.com/lC2PPb5l6W

— ✟ (@LilNasX) January 12, 2024

sure the pop industry has always been about incremental reiterations of past successes but the absolute rut we are stuck in right now is so sad to see. dua fucking lipa the queen of barely passable 6/10 'bops' that all reheat whatever the least-boring aspect of her last hit was is considered an exciting top-tier artist, the biggest hits of the past several years all make an effort to remind listeners of the exact same #1 hit from the 80s and those that don't do so either are built around some corny classic hits safelist sample or interpolate aspects of multiple past hits so the sort of person who likes looking for taylor swift 'easter eggs' can feel clever (speaking of that artist, no wonder her current imperial phase is bolstered in large part by rerecordings of her old albums)

i hate this timeline, i'm embarrassed for these artists and i am not mad when they fall flat on their faces commercially as they seem to do about 50% of the time bc no one in this industry has any clue anymore

Sir this is a Wendy’s

huh

Enjoyed Chris Molanphy's "Old Town Road" book--very good on how Billboard's Top 100 works (and how it's evolved over the years), if that interests you.

dyl, I don’t know which country you live in, but my take on big hits on the UK pop chart over the last couple of years is the exact opposite - ten years ago, I’d have been broadly making your criticisms, but it feels like something has shifted over here, such that pop feels a lot more diverse and creative and surprising. I’m more excited about the UK pop chart now than at any time since 2010.

I’m assuming you haven’t had the same Morgan Wallen song in the top ten for nearly a year

yeah i'm in the formerly culturally influential united states

And it's not even one of the good Morgan Wallen songs xpost

I feel roughly the same as you, dyl, tho i have just gone seeking my “pop” music elsewhere.