Lil Nas X - Old Town Road: Blog tasks
Background and cultural contexts: 1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? whether "Old Town Road" belongs in the country music genre. A dispute regarding what constitutes country music and who gets to define it was sparked when Billboard delisted the rapper's song "Old Town Road" from the country chart. 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? He is an Atlanta-born rapper who is 20 years old. Although he has been referring to himself as "Lil Nas X" for a while, his real name is Montero Hill. And like many others, he signed up for SoundCloud last year. Additionally, in December of that same year, he published a song titled "Old Town Road." He purchased a beat with an instrumental that had a vaguely country feel to it. And he claimed that he was feeling really lonely at home, much like a lonely cowboy, and he made the decision to combine that sensation with the