That sound works pretty well, but it’s not even remotely rap. On Brown’s 2019 self-titled EP, we hear what that means: drawling, bluesy country songs over big 808 thunks. But he’s also spent time in the Nashville world, developing a style that he calls trailer trap.
He got his start as a pop-rap producer, working with people like Pitbull and Fergie. Brown, like Lil Nas X, comes from Atlanta. But he has won the acceptance of the country system, which isn’t easy to do. This won’t happen with “The Git Up,” which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart before Gwen Stefani’s boyfriend’s Southern rock power ballad reclaimed the top spot.īlanco Brown is not an internet-savvy teenager, and he has not turned “The Git Up” into a cause. In being rejected by the country authorities, Lil Nas X took hold of that perception - of a racist and set-in-its-ways country-music governing body - and used it to leapfrog into the pop mainstream. The kid knows what he’s doing.) When “Old Town Road” was banished from the country chart, it became a sort of internet cause, which helped fuel its rise. (This was one of many, many canny decisions that Lil Nas X has made. When Lil Nas X uploaded “Old Town Road” to SoundCloud, he labeled the song “country” - partly because it sort of is a country song, and partly because that genre tag made the song more likely to appear on various SoundCloud charts.
Blanco Brown would still like to repeat it.Ī big part of the “Old Town Road” legend is that the song appeared exactly once on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. At this point, “Old Town Road” seems likely to break the record for the longest-reigning #1 single. 1.5M views, 18K likes, 3K loves, 1.5K comments, 15K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY: Doug and Stacy do Blanco Browns - The Git Up (Dance Challenge) Our friend is a. And before anyone has any idea what’s happening, a cultural phenomenon is born. (The beat samples an old Nine Inch Nails instrumental, but neither teenager has any idea who that is.) The Atlanta teenager records a bunch of non-sequitur cowboy-based lyrics over it, pushes it hard on social media, and blows up via the social-media app TikTok. A 19-year-old Atlanta kid buys a beat from a Dutch teenager.
BRB, just listening to 2002 country-dance crossover 'Cotton Eye Joe' by Rednex.By this point, the story of “Old Town Road” feels like music-industry legend, even as the song remains #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. A feel good anthem bolstered by a viral video, truly we are living in a new age of (country) music. 'The Git Up' not only shares similar musical stylings as 'Old Town Road' - it's also catchy as hell, and its cumulative 80+ million views on YouTube and counting since its original release earlier this year are indicative of just that. Instead, millions of views/followers, and an appearance in Blanco Brown's new video for the single will have to do. If anything, he should have been given a medal for the mesmerising performance, captured brilliantly by a low camera angle.
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And the artist's new video has leant into its Tik Tok origins, included one of its most famous proponents, British teen Harvey Bass.īass rose to fame earlier in the year for his Tik Tok video showing him in full school uniform dancing along ( aka #thegitupchallenge) to 'The Git Up', alongside the caption - "I got suspended for this". The initial traction that 'Old Town Road' gained was partly due to its prevalence on musical app Tik Tok - a path shared by its country rap contemporary, Blanco Brown's 'The Git Up'. Lil Nas X paved the way for a genre-bending country-led smash with his Nine Inch Nails-sampling record-breaking hit, 'Old Town Road', which has dominated US charts in 2019 - topping the Billboard Hot 100 for nineteen weeks.
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