{"id":2446421,"date":"2019-07-17T03:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859963"},"modified":"2019-07-17T03:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:17:30","slug":"watch-lil-nas-x-storm-area-51-in-animated-video-for-old-town-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-lil-nas-x-storm-area-51-in-animated-video-for-old-town-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lil Nas X Storm Area 51 in Animated Video for \u2018Old Town Road\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-10.09.28-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s a brand new video for \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d the song that officially won\u2019t quit. The animated clip, directed by Somehoodlum, comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-mason-ramsey-young-thug-remix-old-town-road-858161\/\">recent remix<\/a> of the track that includes new verses from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/young-thug\/\" id=\"auto-tag_young-thug\" data-tag=\"young-thug\">Young Thug<\/a> and YouTube star Mason Ramsey. In the video the singers join <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\/billy-ray-cyrus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-ray-cyrus\" data-tag=\"billy-ray-cyrus\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a> as they invade the top secret Area 51, where Thanos apparently is one of the aliens the U.S. government has been hiding.<\/p>\n<p>As soldiers barricade the gates to Area 51, Lil Nas X and his pals saddle up and stampede towards them, causing a few soldiers to wet their pants. Lil Nas X even pulls a panini out of his holster and grabs a bite while the group storms the government facility. Eventually, they get inside and score some new alien gear.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.1846153846154\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">OLD TOWN RAID ??\u2728<br \/>OUT NOW!! ?\u26a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B1NYG0CNFe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/B1NYG0CNFe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zo4Go5dlDR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zo4Go5dlDR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nope (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1151196931328073729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">July 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The cheeky video seems to be in reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/area-51\/storm-area-51-they-cant-stop-all-of-us\/448435052621047\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook event<\/a> that was started to invite citizens to force their way in to Area 51 to discover the truth. The event suggests attendees \u201call meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry\u201d on September 20th. \u201cIf we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets,\u201d the description notes, referencing anime character Naruto (played by an animated Keanu Reeves in Lil Nas X\u2019s video). \u201cLet\u2019s see them aliens.\u201d Currently the event has 1.4 million RSVPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-lil-nas-x-storm-area-51-video-old-town-road-859963\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a brand new video for \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d the song that officially won\u2019t quit. The animated clip, directed by Somehoodlum, comes after the recent remix of the track that includes new verses from Young Thug and YouTube star Mason Ramsey. In the video the singers join Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus as [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 17:05:03","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}