{"id":1307918,"date":"2019-04-05T18:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804846"},"modified":"2019-04-05T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:57:49","slug":"the-country-billy-ray-cyrus-saw-in-old-town-road-by-lil-nas-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/the-country-billy-ray-cyrus-saw-in-old-town-road-by-lil-nas-x\/","title":{"rendered":"The Country Billy Ray Cyrus Saw in \u201cOld Town Road\u201d by Lil Nas X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:671294?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">34m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The argument of what is and what isn\u2019t authentic country music is exhausting. That\u2019s why we\u2019re not even going to question the country credibility of \u201cOld Town Road\u201d by Lil Nas X. The song\u2019s viral success shows country music culture at its greatest potential by resonating with 73 million people online.<\/p>\n<p>And if organizers of Sunday\u2019s (April 7) 54th annual ACM Awards choose to take advantage of the opportunity, the song is viral gold if they want to add it last-minute to the show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ho88VXJTBg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ho88VXJTBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>In case you\u2019ve been living under a rock, Lil Nas X is Montero Lamar Hill. He is a Hip-Hop\/Rap artist from Atlanta, Ga. who specializes in memes and celebrates his 20th birthday is Tuesday (April 9). According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8505789\/lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-remix\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>, Hill has his first No. 1 on the trade\u2019s On-Demand Streaming Songs chart with \u201cOld Town Road.\u201d At press time, the song currently sits at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its popularity is attributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/share\/challenge\/201843?name=yeehaw&amp;u_code=d3gi76hak5ehkd&amp;language=en&amp;utm_campaign=client_share&amp;app=musically&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;user_id=6634220349225844741&amp;tt_from=copy&amp;utm_source=copy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#YeeHawChallenge<\/a> on the media app TikTok, where users upload video clips of themselves and set them to music. The clip featuring \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d has followers appearing in full cowboy get-up as the beat drops, and the story of the song\u2019s rise has been picked up by literally every media outlet. It\u2019s inescapable, and now it has a Billy Ray Cyrus remix.<\/p>\n<p>All of this happened after it was dropped from Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart because, according to statements the trade provided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, it didn\u2019t meet the requirements needed to rank on the chart. Part of the statement reads, \u201cWhile \u2018Old Town Road\u2019 incorporates references to country and cowboy imagery, it does not embrace enough elements of today\u2019s country music to chart in its current version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enter Cyrus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Old Town Road\u2026. the remix out now! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lilnasx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0emFSzkHl\">pic.twitter.com\/s0emFSzkHl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Billy Ray Cyrus (@billyraycyrus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billyraycyrus\/status\/1114029371168313344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At 2 a.m. PT Friday (April 7), members of the media received a press release announcing his contribution to an \u201cOld Town Road\u201d remix, which is available on all streaming services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ysFgElQtjI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ysFgElQtjI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95Q7eX3IfP\">https:\/\/t.co\/95Q7eX3IfP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MileyCyrus\/status\/1114038628668379137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI loved the song the first time I heard it,\u201d Cyrus said in the release. \u201cCountry music fans decide what they like. Not critics or anyone else. Waylon Jennings once told me every once in a while the industry outlaws someone because they\u2019re different. Country music fans don\u2019t need to be defined by critics. I\u2019ve always said, don\u2019t think inside the box, don\u2019t think outside the box. Think like there is no box. So, I\u2019m honored to collaborate with Lil Nas X on \u2018Old Town Road.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, arguments over whether a piece of music is country or not is nothing new. They\u2019ve been passed down from generations of country music people since recorded country music\u2019s inception at the 1927 Bristol Sessions in East Tennessee, and it will continue to evolve for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Keith and the Carter Family sound nothing alike because country music, while clinging to its perennial country themes, has always embraced an \u201cevolve-or-die\u201d attitude. But as the living legend Kenny Rogers, someone who transcends all genres, once told CMT.com in a 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1769727\/kenny-rogers-im-a-father-first-and-a-singer-second\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>, \u201cCountry music is what country people will buy. If the country audience doesn\u2019t buy it, they\u2019ll kick it out. And if they do, then it becomes country music. It\u2019s just the era of country music we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Lil Nas X is selling at the moment, people are into it, and it\u2019s bringing out the country in people who didn\u2019t know they had it in them. And that\u2019s something to celebrate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804846\/the-country-billy-ray-cyrus-saw-in-old-town-road-by-lil-nas-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 34m ago The argument of what is and what isn\u2019t authentic country music is exhausting. That\u2019s why we\u2019re not even going to question the country credibility of \u201cOld Town Road\u201d by Lil Nas X. 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