Posted byJo WeeksNovember 18, 2019Posted inUncategorizedEdit Number One
Old Town Road
Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
I just love this song, particularly the syncopation that occurs throughout. I love the video too. That Lil Nas dude is so cool. I heard this song driving home from dog walking one evening in the dark after a particularly difficult day. It was a request on Sara Cox’s Friday Night Request Show on Radio 2. I missed the beginning, so I didn’t know who it was at first (had to wait in the car until it finished to find out, didn’t I?). Anyway, the car was rocking all the way home – the drive is only about 2 minutes, so the 2.37 of this song is perfect, but in everyday life it ought to be longer.
I am so old and out of touch that I had never heard of Lil Nas, so I just looked him up and found he is a rapper and this song is his breakthrough/most famous to date. I also read that this remix is genre busting because of Billy Ray who is a country singer, and also that it got kicked off the Billboard chart because it wasn’t country enough. Hah! To me it is a great tune that gets you wanting to dance.
I’ve no idea what the lyrics mean but I hardly think that matters. They’re probably a bit two fingers up to the world and also maybe a little bit rude. Who cares? When I need to feel a bit of rhythm in my life, especially at the moment when I’m in the middle of my second (hopefully last) blast of chemo and suffering all the side effects and sickness that the chemicals bring, I now listen to this, among other songs and it blows away my self pity.
Songs that make me feel alive 