TIA: Budding rapper Lil Nas X’s country
trap hit “Old Town Road” has quickly climbed
the charts after going viral online.
But Billboard recently pulled the track from
the Hot Country Songs Chart.
TIA: So we took to the streets to ask people,
is “Old Town Road” a country song?
PERSON: This shit’s hard.
Ayeeeeee.
PERSON: It’s giving me an urban kind of
old soul song.
PERSON: I actually really liked that song.
TIA: It bangs.
SPIDERMAN: I though it was sick like the horse
with the Porsche shit and I was like yup.
NAKED COWBOY: Now we get those low voices
of the Black baritones.
TIA: Okay.
PERSON: I think it’s hard I think it’s
aight though I think Swagger could do a lot better.
PERSON: I mean, different is good we haven’t
like, I haven’t heard anything like it before.
TIA: Do you think it’s a country song?
SPIDERMAN: Ooh!
TIA: You think it’s a country song?
PERSON: Yes, ma’am.
SPIDERMAN: That’s hard, ‘cause like Justin
Timberlake just did a whole ‘Man In The Woods'
collaboration that’s all country,
hip-hop like all that shit, right?
So, what do we call this?
PERSON: Yeah, I do.
PERSON: Yeah, I would consider it country
music.
TIA: Do you think that it belongs on the country
songs chart?
PERSON: I do think so.
SPIDERMAN: He’s singing in the form of country,
like I’m gonna da da da da da da...
PERSON: No.
TIA: You don’t.
PERSON: No.
TIA: Why not?
PERSON: I don’t...probably because it has
a hip-hop beat to it.
PERSON: The country accent and then he talkin’
about horses.
PERSON: Horses and cowboys, the landscape
and the rhythm.
PERSON: The accent and the horses and like,
kinda like the music video is them riding
the horses.
PERSON: He said he has the horses in the back
so I don’t know what else they want from
him it sounds country to me.
TIA: So all you need is some horses?
PERSON: Yeah all you need is some horses.
PERSON: Country music deserves diversity ‘cause
country music honestly gets a lot of flack
for like no reason.
SPIDERMAN: I thought it was real sick because
I like, I like the whole like desperado feel.
Like when Rihanna came out with “Desperado”
I was like yes, that shit.
And then like “Six Inch Heels” I was like
yes, that shit.
And then this?
This is like really cool.
PERSON: Are you a country music fan?
PERSON: I mean I can get down with it.
Country trap, I honestly could get into it.
PERSON: Our friends make it out to be a country
song but I don’t think it was intended to
be a super country song.
TIA: So have you heard that this song was
on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart but
then it was taken off the chart.
SPIDERMAN: Off the country chart?
TIA: Off the country chart.
SPIDERMAN: Is it still on a Billboard chart?
TIA: It’s still on the Hot 100, yeah.
SPIDERMAN: Okay, so it’s still like getting
accolades, but it’s not getting accolades
as a country song.
TIA: Yes.
NAKED COWBOY: I mean it’s not close enough
that people would throw it in that genre.
PERSON: At the beginning, you feel yes but
after it’s like rap music, you know?
They mix the two, so for me it’s not real
country music.
TIA: Can you guess who’s on the remix?
NAKED COWBOY: Taylor Swift.
TIA: No.
But Billy Ray Cyrus.
PERSON: Wowww so it should definitely be on
the country, yeah.
It should definitely be there.
PERSON: I mean, that should give it the feel
that it needs to get back onto the country list.
TIA: Are you guys gonna listen?
PEOPLE: Of course.
PERSON: Billy Ray is my king.
SPIDERMAN: That’s cool but you gotta do
a whole country album now.
PERSON: I just really hope they put it back
on the country chart because I really think
it belongs there I think it’s a groundbreaking
record for it to be so versatile.
TIA: Well, there you have it.
Do you think “Old Town Road” is a country
song or not?
Let us know in the comments below.
I’m Tia with Genius News bringing you the
meaning and the knowledge behind the music.
TIA: Maybe you could get on the remix to the remix?
NAKED COWBOY: Bring me in!
