- 144 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In Old Town Road, Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X's debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. "Old Town Road" was more than a massive hit, with the most weeks at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history. It is also a prism through which to track the evolution of popular music consumption and the ways race influences how the music industry categorizes songs and artists. By both lionizing and satirizing genre tropesāit's a country song built from an alternative rock sample, a hip-hop song in which nobody raps, a comical song that transcends novelty, and a queer anthemāLil Nas X troubles the very idea of genre. Ultimately, Molanphy shows how "Old Town Road" channeled decades of Americana to point the way toward our cultural future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction. BONAFIDE ātil I Canāt No More: Old Town Roadā as the Endpoint of a Century of Genre and Chart Evolution
- 01. WIDE-EYED ātil I Canāt No More: The Maker of āOld Town Roadā and the Elements of Its Creation
- 02. HIED ātil I Canāt No More: A Brief History of Country and Race
- 03. FLY ātil I Canāt No More: The Collision and Cross-Pollination of Rap and Country
- 04. REIFIED ātil I Canāt No More: What a No. 1 Hit Meant as the Hot 100 Evolved
- 05. DIVIDE ātil I Canāt No More: Genre Charts, Data, and Identity
- 06. WORLD WIDE ātil I Canāt No More: How Technology and Internet Culture Built āOld Town Roadā
- 07. BESTRIDE ātil I Canāt No More: How Lil Nas X Dominated 2019
- Epilogue. PRIDE ātil I Canāt No More: How Lil Nas X Became a Multihit Wonder
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index