Recorded at Memphis’s legendary Sun Studio, this proto-rock’n’roll tune is bare-bones and back to basics with a rollicking skiffle beat, but all the better for it. Patsy Cline – who died in a plane crash in 1963 – lends the song a stunning depth with her vocal, one of the purest and most soulful there ever was.
Written by Willie Nelson, ‘Crazy’ is a perfect country standard. If you want a heartfelt weepie, then this is your song. So I put some potentially funny lines in there.Everyone from Elvis to the Pet Shop Boys have done ‘Always On My Mind’, but Willie’s is the greatest – netting him three Grammy Awards.
"I run a meme type of account on Twitter I know what my audience is looking for. "I knew the way I was going to have to push the song to get it to hit more people's ears," he told Rolling Stone. X is fluent in the mechanics of social virality, and his rise is the outcome of smart engineering (which is not to say he lacks talent he doesn't). Before his chart-soaring hit, he was a prolific presence on Twitter and ran a popular stan account. If anything, Lil Nas X is a blueprint for the business of music. The song, like all sneakily transcendent art, works to stabilize, to lend context. Partitions are a fading industry convention here, X proves the thesis true and necessary (the popular 2004 country-rap ballad "Over and Over" by Nelly and Tim McGraw flirted with the same kind of genre intermixing). Genre, like gender, is an increasingly outdated construct. But "Old Town Road" isn't really disruptive in the way that we think it is, or want it to be. The popular narrative that has emerged around "Old Town Road" is that the song represents industry dissolution-of genre, of traditional formality with regard to how artists navigate the music business. Partitions are a fading industry convention here, X proves the thesis true and necessary. 1 spot on the local Apple Music Daily Top 100 charts in at least 23 countries. Speaking to WIRED, a rep from Apple confirmed that the song commands the No. It has found cross-continental appeal too. Suddenly, a three-month-old song by an unknown rapper from Atlanta was the nation's most popular track. For weeks it floundered on SoundCloud and later squirmed through the music app TikTok, where it gained social relevance and chart placement, but it wasn't until Billboard decided to yank it from its Hot Country Songs listing-it did not "embrace enough elements of today's country music," they reasoned-that it catapulted into the fulcrum of online discourse. It's a vortex of attention-grabbing pop art infrequently experienced these days as artistic omnipresence has become harder to engineer. Issued last December, "Old Town Road" belongs to a rare species of musical supernovas-Beyoncé's perennial feminist bop "Single Ladies" and Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow," among them-that have the power to bring the internet together around one anthem.
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But how did we get here? How did one song arrive at 200 million combined streams (according to data from Spotify and Apple Music, where it's charting in the top two spots on the Global 100) social ubiquity across Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram a remix with country legend Billy Ray Cyrus a rumored second remix with rap maverick Young Thug an endless torrent of memes and videos that have helped feed the online rise of The Black Yeehaw Agenda (which has in turn fed the rise of "Old Town Road") press in outlets both expected and surprising (including Pitchfork, The New York Times, CBS News, E!, Taste of Country, and NPR)? The exact answer involves a mysterious kind of alchemy, but the short version is that Lil Nas X's hit encapsulates more of pop culture in 2019 than anything else released this year.
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