May 182019
Over the last month or so I’ve been modestly amused by the chaos this little song by rapper “Lil Nas X” has sown: it sure sounds like a country song, but people have argued that it isn’t. Billboard magazine said it reached #19 in the “Country” charts, then disqualified it since they decided that it’s not actually a country song. In early April, Billy Ray Cyrus participated in the first official remix of the song; this of course makes it harder to argue that it’s not a country song.
Finally a true narrative video has been produced featuring both Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus. I find it unaccountably entertaining.