{"id":794283,"date":"2019-03-28T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=814940"},"modified":"2019-03-28T20:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:43:33","slug":"see-lion-babe-raekwon-toast-to-western-world-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-lion-babe-raekwon-toast-to-western-world-in-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Lion Babe, Raekwon Toast to \u2018Western World\u2019 in New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lionbabewesternworldvideo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Lion Babe and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wu-tang-clan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wu-tang-clan\" data-tag=\"wu-tang-clan\">Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/raekwon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raekwon\" data-tag=\"raekwon\">Raekwon<\/a> hustle in a saloon and take on outlaws in the new video for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lion-babe-raekwon-western-world-listen-805140\/\">Western World<\/a>.\u201d The song appears on Lion Babe\u2019s sophomore LP, <em>Cosmic World<\/em>, which will be released tomorrow. The album is the follow-up to the duo\u2019s 2016 debut, <em>Begin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip that recalls old Westerns, Lion Babe\u2019s Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman appear on some dusty train tracks while the rhythms from their interpolation of Pet Shop Boys\u2019 classic \u201cWest End Girls\u201d comes in. As Hervey strolls the town, nuns look upon her in judgment. Later, they perform at a saloon, where seemingly illicit exchanges of money and other untoward arrangements take place.<\/p>\n<p>The setting mirrors the lyric\u2019s themes of loneliness and listlessness while going through life in a \u201cwestern world\u201d where \u201cyou\u2019re on your own\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s hard to find some peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Lion Babe entertains the saloon\u2019s audience, Raekwon participates in a card game and injects positivity into the mix. \u201cYou know how I pop,\u201d he raps. \u201cIt\u2019s just a radiant glow I got that make me keep radio on lock\/All about love, we premiere\/Baby, we here\/It\u2019s like this: let me lighten your bliss.\u201d Raekwon and Hervey are also seen toasting away their seedy surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>While the Western\u2019s protagonists are making the best of their circumstances, a group of outlaws looks to challenge Lion Babe. However, as the song\u2019s grooves command, they dance their way out of the jam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lion-babe-raekwon-western-world-video-watch-814940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Babe and Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Raekwon hustle in a saloon and take on outlaws in the new video for \u201cWestern World.\u201d The song appears on Lion Babe\u2019s sophomore LP, Cosmic World, which will be released tomorrow. The album is the follow-up to the duo\u2019s 2016 debut, Begin. In the clip that recalls old Westerns, Lion [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 06:30:28","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}