.LilNasX is providing a beacon of light for otherwise closeted teens seeking larger acceptance 🏳️🌈🤠
an explosion of 2019 relevance. Keep in mind that the song's impressiveness as an earworm isn't just chart-related:"Old Town Road," built from a Nine Inch Nails instrumental sample, also notably toes the line between country and rap, two disparate genres that, despite some successful one-offs in the past, often go together like kale and Krispy Kreme.
As if that weren't enough of an anomaly, the song's charismatic mastermind was only 19 when he bought the beat, wrote the lyrics, and released the track to virality. He also fancies calling himself a Black cowboy and happens to be . Yes, in our game of music Mad Libs about a commercially explosive country-rap song that samples a rock track from a Black, gay teen cowboy, it's theadjective that stands out. It's perhaps the smash's most important and lasting quality, both to me personally and on a broader spectrum.Overnight, gay teens — and Black ones in particular — suddenly have a role model in Lil Nas X, who announced his truth to the world during Pride weekend .
When I was a pre-teen during the heyday of early 2000s idols like Eminem, Britney Spears, and NSYNC, hearing about the success of a song like"Old Town Road" would have been simply unfathomable . Back in 2000 — a strange time that mostly consisted of praying that someone wouldn't pick up the phone while you were surfing dial-up AOL — paramount to my shock would have been the idea of Lil Nas X himself.
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