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The remix was released in an effort to keep "Old Town Road" at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, as the song was two weeks away from tying for the all-time Hot 100 record held by "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men and "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee; it has since broken that record.
In 2018, one of Roukema's beats was leased by American rapper Lil Nas X for his song "Old Town Road". The beat sampled the 2008 Nine Inch Nails song " Ghost IV – 34 ". [ 4 ] The song was released independently on December 3, 2018, and gained popularity on social video sharing app TikTok .
Giddyap! The official music video for “Old Town Road,” the Western-themed 2019 breakout from Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club. The achievement ...
He added that the song "paints the picture of where I grew up and where I currently still live, a place that is a part of me, a place that I plan to settle down and raise kids so they can have the luxury of growing up in a wide open spaces like I did," referring to his hometown of Mildmay, Ontario, where he grew up on a farm.
"Old Town" is a song released by Thin Lizzy frontman Philip Lynott from his 1982 self-titled solo album, The Philip Lynott Album; its lyrics detail the end of a romance. In the music video, Lynott can be seen on the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, as well as several other locations around the city centre. [ 1 ]
The melody was used for "The Chewing Song" in the Columbia Pictures film The Road to Wellville (1994). The song features in season 1, episode 5 of the PBS Masterpiece Mystery series, Grantchester (2014). [11] The song is sung by drunken ranch-hands at a saloon in the 2021 Jane Campion film, The Power of the Dog (film), set in 1925.
The song is about contemporary American small town life. The narrator claims "things ain't like they used to be round here", and brings to attention that children are becoming lazy instead of working and also the dangers of today, claiming "momma locked the door last night for the first time in all of her years" and "the streets ain't safe for a bike to ride down."
[1] [3] [12] [5] Young had recorded 9 songs for the Tonight's the Night album in 1973 but did not feel the album was finished, and so the album sat unreleased for two years. Young's manager Elliot Mazer suggested adding three older songs to the album - "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown" as well as "Borrowed Tune" and "Lookout Joe."