{"id":890,"date":"2019-06-29T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2019-06-29T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:14:08","slug":"music-lil-nas-x-and-pop-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/music-lil-nas-x-and-pop-today\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Lil Nas X and pop today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/21\/734485423\/lil-nas-x-is-more-than-just-a-meme-lord-apparently\">Meaghan Garvey wrote an insightful funny review<\/a> of Lil Nas X for NPR that&#8217;s also about the state of pop music, and funny to boot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cthe exquisite schadenfreude of the biggest pop stars on the planet, including Drake and Taylor Swift, being denied the Hot 100&#8217;s No. 1 spot for three months and counting thanks to a cowboy novelty song from a former Nicki Minaj stan account operator. &#8230;<br>maybe for his next act he&#8217;d be a fishing boat captain, sending sea shanties with trap drums up the SoundCloud charts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(A &#8220;stan&#8221; is an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Older folks, watch the video (Chris Rock!) to avoid being hopelessly out of touch \ud83e\udd20\ud83d\udc0e The Genius lyrics site can <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Lil-nas-x-old-town-road-remix-lyrics\">explain<\/a> some of the references such as &#8220;Lean all in my bladder.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Official Movie) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2Ov5jzm3j8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaghan Garvey wrote an insightful funny review of Lil Nas X for NPR that&#8217;s also about the state of pop music, and funny to boot! \u201cthe exquisite schadenfreude of the biggest pop stars on the planet, including Drake and Taylor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/music-lil-nas-x-and-pop-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}