Here's what Grimes had to say about Lil Nas X’s OldTownRoad
, the conversation naturally turned to mega hit"Old Town Road," which dominated the Hot 100 for a record-breaking 19 weeks in 2019.
"I feel like the situation with Old Town Road may be, like, the most significant musical situation of the last decade," she proclaimed. Like rejected from the country charts, came up through TikTok. Like, it really is this weird hyper modern situation that's the song, popped off cause of technology. Cause even, I think, he bought the beat from a guy and the whole thing is just this post social media occurrence that just could never have happened before the moment it happened.”.
"I've always been not writing a song about that because it felt exploited it, 'cause you know, it's like, you see artists come out and they're like, 'I have four types of depression' and all this stuff," she continued."But Lil Peep dying just kinda pushed me over the edge. I was like, 'Man, this is a serious, like a super mainstream thing at this point'... That people just f---ing die from.
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