He sings, “Hat down, cross town, livin’ like a rock star / Spent a lot of money on my brand-new guitar / Baby’s got a habit: diamond rings and Fendi sports bras / Ridin’ down Rodeo in my Maserati sports car.” There’s lots of name-dropping about expensive things, but hey, he’s a rock star, who can blame him? Billy Ray goes on to explain he has been through hardships in life and had to ride his own journey to success, like Lil Nas X. The beginning of Billy Ray Cyrus’s verse, on the other hand, is a huge flex on all our lives. Like, where is the Old Town Road? And why does Lil Nas X have a horse? Why was the song invoked in Lil Nas X’s controversial “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” backlash? What happened to his car? Check out our explainer below, and hopefully your (or mostly just my own) confusion is cleared up.Ĭolumbia Records And then Billy Ray Cyrus comes in.
But the catchy hit is also super confusing.
Since 2019, “Old Town Road” has completely blown up and even won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Music Video at the 2020 Grammys. The hip-hop/country crossover was a musical shock at first, but once it started gaining popularity, it never stopped. Lil Nas X actually called the genre “ country trap,” but magical works too. When Billy Ray Cyrus hopped on the track for a remix, two worlds collided and something that can only be described as *magical* was produced. Two years ago, most people didn’t even know who Lil Nas X was and Billy Ray was not the Cyrus we thought we wanted new music from. “But it did what it did.I don’t know anyone who hasn’t heard “Old Town Road” at this point. 1, though he’d figured that between the rhinestones and rainbows and the general vibe, it would’ve been obvious.) “I didn’t know it was gonna do what it did,” he said of “Old Town Road” and its companion EP, 7. (He later became the first artist to come out while his record was at No. Born Montero Lamar Hill in 1999, Nas grew up outside Atlanta but came of age on the internet, turning to social media and meme-making out of boredom and teenage loneliness-feelings compounded by his struggle to resolve his sexuality. It was, of course, all those things, and pity those who couldn’t live with the contradictions. Was it country? Was it rap? Cowboy anthem or LGBTQ camp? TikTok novelty or legitimate pop song? So that’s what I did.” Not only did the “it” in question-“Old Town Road”-become a global phenomenon (and 2019 Apple Music Award winner for Song of the Year), it prompted surprisingly pertinent conversations about how we define and classify music. “I was just kinda bored,” he told Apple Music. The way Lil Nas X tells it, it sounds simple, almost mystical.
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