If you want to discuss whether “Old Town Road” should be considered country, that’s one thing. First, if there was any question of whether Lil Nas X was a country artist beyond “Old Town Road,” that matter has been firmly settled by the release of his EP ‘7,’ which doesn’t include anything else resembling country, country trap, or any other country hybrid or offshoot at all.
But there are some important differences between the two artists. The comparisons to Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” and the hypocrisy of including one song and not the other on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart is naturally where a discussion leads. It wasn’t even sent to radio until last week, after it had already spent a at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart-one of the many signifiers about both the idiocy and malfeasance behind this song. The best Blanco Brown could manage this week at radio was #56. And “The Git Up” is not in the Mediabase Top 30, which means at best it’s a footnote in Nashville.įorget the Mediabase Top 30. There’s all these hosannas about Blanco Brown’s “The Git Up” going #1 on the “Billboard” country chart…BUT THAT’S NOT THE CHART THAT MATTERS!Ĭountry is driven by radio. There famous and well-respected lawyer, consultant, and critic Bob Lefsetz said it best himself recently about “The Git Up.
Old Farts & Jackasses is the real story mainstream country should be focusing on, even if “The Git Up” still sits out there to possibly retake the top spot in the future. What a massive, career-resurging single “God’s Country” has been for Mr. Blake Shelton, and his mega hit “God’s Country” has now overtaken Blanco Brown after his one week reign. I run the risk of this occurring even now simply by broaching the subject, but purposely waited for the song to fall out of its top spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs to do so.
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In fact doing so with some scandalous rant or series of hot air think pieces would have only fueled its ascent to the top of the charts as the completely biased and stone blind media would have used it as fodder to incite faux controversy.
Of course the song is indolent and without depth or value, and it isn’t country aside from containing a few surface level elements that should be considered more as stereotypical insults to country music as opposed to genre markers or authentic expressions.īut these truths are held so self-evident, the song is not even worth shitting on. I’ve been avoiding taking about Blanco Brown, and his #1 on top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart called “The Git Up” because ultimately it just doesn’t matter. This is the steroid era in baseball on steroids. This will all be judged very, very adversely by history, and the media and music industry are making messes for themselves that future generations will both laugh at, and be tasked to clean up. From the fake controversies, to the gaming of the meme culture and social media to make 30-second snippets somehow compete with actual songs on charts, to the paying for streams to create false positives on breakout hits, the malfeasance in the monogenre space with country music as the heel has gotten so out of control and ridiculous, it’s almost not worth paying attention to aside from mapping the egregious infractions against fairness, common sense, and the truth for context, and studying the sociological impact of it all. None of this is real ladies and gentlemen.
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