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Benjamin Schweinberg

Professor Cook

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12 September 2021

Lil Nas X “Old Town Road” Summary

In Lil Nas X Is the King of the Crossover: “Old Town Road” just keeps on giving, By

Wesley Morris in the New York Times Magazine, March of 2021, Wesley Morris talks about how

Lil Nas X made his song, “Old Town Road” so groovy and obsessive to the whole world and put

him on his path to success in the music industry. Wesley Morris explains how “Old Town Road”

is super overplayed and the musical charts say the song is going away but not to renowned artist

Christone Ingram. Christone Ingram is describing “Old Town Road” as a classic and will end up

being the song of the century. “Old Town Road” has been the most popular song (to the charts)

in history and had multiple agencies controversy over the song being on country radio because of

Lil Nas X line “Ridin’ on a tractor/Lean all in my bladder”, but Billy Ray Cyrus got on the song

making a remix which led to the song ending up on Country radio. When Lil Nas X heard that

everyone loved the feature on his song he began to open it up to even more features reaching

even more audiences while sitting on his chair seeing all of his views rise. Seeing how all these

news features worked together with his performance he had surprised the whole room by adding

on verses with artists such as BTS, Mason Ramsey, Young Thug, DJ Diplo and Cyrus. Lil Nas X

saw this song's potential to reach every audience because of how diverse his song could change

and fit any tone and beat.

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References,

“25 Songs That Matter Now.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020,

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/magazine/best-songs.html.