Name: How Lil Nas X Took ‘Old Town Road’ From TikTok Meme to No. 1 | Diary of a Song
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T08:43:27.000Z
Duration: 6 min 57 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

“Play the number one song in the world.”

“O.K. Let’s hear 'Old Town Road' by Lil Nas X.

Got the boots that’s black to match.”

“So you were just, like, throwing stuff up

on SoundCloud that you recorded in your bedroom?”

I live in a small town next to Amsterdam.

It’s just, like, a desk with two monitors,

So I can, like, put out, like, 10 a day, you know?”

“But I had never heard of Nine Inch Nails before.

But they have — they make some really good music, you know?”

“I always get my beats, like, from YouTube.

I would just go through, like, 100 beats.”

“It’s really just luck that people just find your stuff,

“I found the beat on, like, Halloween night.

The beat was just speaking to me, you know?

I was, like, this song’s gonna be great.”

“Did you conceive of the song as a country rap song?”

But, like, if I had to choose which one it’s more

leaning towards, it would definitely be country.

Like, I was pushing my music through the internet, like,

From the very night I released 'Old Town Road' on Twitter,

(SINGING) I’m gonna take my horse to the old town road.

Somebody put his song over a video that I already did.

This song is — this song is kind of hard.”

“(SINGING) I got the horses in the back.”

“It put the black yeehaw agenda and the song together,

“A lot of people like to say, you know, it was,

The internet is basically, like, my parents, in a way.

I had to learn how to use it, you know, in my own way.”

“I saw you made that post on Reddit where you were, like,

gonna take my horse to the old town road?”

Because I knew that’s what people were gonna search.

“I didn’t really know the song existed.

I think it was a girl who sent me a meme,

Subtitles ListPlay Video

How Lil Nas X Took ‘Old Town Road’ From TikTok Meme to No. 1 | Diary of a Song

stuff

viral

exist

lean