'Old Town Road' Is Good For Jeans, Bad For Street Sign The song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nax X mentions "Wrangler on my booty." ... "OLD TOWN ROAD") LIL NAS X: (Singing) Cowboy hat from Gucci.

That’s ‘Old Town Road,’ Lil Nas X’s big hit, and it was tearing up the country charts until Billboard pulled it off for not being country enough.” “Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, now.

“Old Town Road” does boast one formal innovation, the DJ said, which is the Avengers-like frisson Lil Nas X got from inviting Cyrus, himself a one-hit wonder, to team up for the song’s most ...

Lil Nas X's left-field country-rap smash 'Old Town Road' is the biggest song of 2019. ... Combining banjo, backwoods moans, stock images from an old-timey western (horse, cowboy hats, boots), ...

Two current country hits by black musicians are challenging traditional notions of the genre. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" and Blanco Brown's "The Git Up" pulse with history and humor.

“Old Town Road” might be the biggest debut single of all time, the year’s most popular tune, a history-making smash, the mass phenomenon of 2019. And yet it goes deeper than that.

Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” is a sensation.The genre-bending “country trap” song has jumped from TikTok-aided hit to a cultural phenomenon (see: Ellen DeGeneres dancing in a wig and ...

When he emerges, he plops right back into Old Town Road — but in 2019. Lil Nas X's cowboy hat and gear most definitely stand out, but it's also the fact that he's parading through the paved ...

“Old Town Road” is only just fine, though. Let’s not get carried away. It’s fun to hear Lil Nas X sink into that low drawl, daydreaming about the life of a libertine cowboy, then leap back ...

What “Old Town Road” does is make this shape-shifting process super-duper explicit, right down to the video-game music video: Turn on the song and you’re playing as a heroic sharpshooter.

“Old Town Road,” which Hill describes as “country trap,” has made its way to the top of both the Spotify and Apple charts in the U.S., and now sits at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.