{"id":485256,"date":"2019-04-30T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=828883"},"modified":"2019-04-30T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:59:24","slug":"how-billie-eilish-and-lil-nas-x-are-reshaping-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/how-billie-eilish-and-lil-nas-x-are-reshaping-music\/","title":{"rendered":"How Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X Are Reshaping Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/billie-eilish-lil-nas-x.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The latest episode of our weekly podcast <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-music-now\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-music-now\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-music-now\">Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;tackles the two Gen-Z artists dominating music in 2019 so far: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-nas-x\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-nas-x\" data-tag=\"lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-eilish\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billie-eilish\" data-tag=\"billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d complete with a video drawn from the video game <em>Red Dead Redemption<\/em> 2, is arguably the meme-iest number one hit of all time, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844\/\">controversy over <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s dunderheaded decision<\/a> to disqualify it from the country charts only adding to the song\u2019s notoriety. Eilish is redefining pop for a generation with her second album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-billie-eilish-when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go-814754\/\"><em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em><\/a>, which saw its songs streamed 194 million times in its first week. Charles Holmes, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to explain the artists\u2019 backstories, explore the reasons for their runaway success, put them in historical context and speculate on their futures.<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast,&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>, and check out two years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Sebastian Bach, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, Gary Clark Jr. and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions and debates with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters. Tune in every Friday at 1 p.m. ET to hear Rolling Stone Music Now show broadcast live on Sirius XM\u2019s Volume, channel 106.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-lil-nas-x-reshaping-music-podcast-828883\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of our weekly podcast Rolling Stone Music Now&nbsp;tackles the two Gen-Z artists dominating music in 2019 so far: Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish. Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d complete with a video drawn from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, is arguably the meme-iest number one hit of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 08:29:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}