On the latter, Daytrip serves up surf-rock guitars and mariachi horns, and Lil Nas X slides back into the flow from the single. The former floats on tuneful whistles assisted by bubbly synths from “Mo Bamba” production duo Take A Daytrip. ( 7 actually features eight songs it’s bookended by two versions of the hit single.) The project feels if not rushed, then fascinatingly flubbed like a pound cake that sunk, it loses a little form and taste the further in you manage to make it. 7 is a 19-minute EP housing about 10 minutes of good ideas, four of which are “Old Town Road,” a two-minute smash whose simplicity looks all the more impressive after six more tries. Lil Nas X’s major-label debut, 7, also faces the unenviable task of creating a marketable sound for a new artist in short order. Light went platinum, but in three years, Boone’s pop career dried up, and she returned to the Christian music circuit. Boone got lost in the shuffle trying to juggle pop, rock, country, and sentimental ballads. That album, also called You Light Up My Life, was a mess that not even Beatles and ABBA covers could save. Boone’s ballad broke big - her reign on the top ultimately lasted ten weeks - and her team rushed an album out to capitalize on the momentum. In 1977, vocalist Debby Boone, daughter of the wholesome film and pop star Pat Boone and a member of his Christian family band, cut a cover of “You Light Up My Life,” the Oscar-winning theme song to the forgettable low-budget romance of the same name. The last time a solo artist got this much distance on the first at bat, Jimmy Carter was president. This feat is doubly impressive because “Old Town Road” is Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X’s first official single. Maybe in the future, we’ll remember “Old Town Road” as a bright spot in strange times. They’re etched into the history of popular culture. I” on the list of songs that spent the most consecutive weeks atop the chart. 1, it has already enjoyed a longer stay there than event records like Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” Pharrell’s “Happy,” and Adele’s “Hello.” If it keeps this pace for another week, it’ll surpass Puff Daddy and the Family’s “I’ll Be Missing You” and Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women, Pt. 1.Īs “ Old Town Road” closes out its third month on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, it enters the company of the most successful hit singles of the last 20 years. He should’ve taken some pointers from Cardi B’s patience after “Bodak Yellow” hit No.

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