Why did Billboard take Old Town Road off the Hot Country List?

not real country, only faggots like florida georgia lines

This song is not even attempting to sound country. Its a rap song, this is what you faggots always do
>noo we belong in the Rock Hall of Fame, we wuz the new rockstars bruh
Fuck off and stay in your generic trap lane, bros.

>its a rap song mocking country music
In what way is he mocking it?
>Ridin' on a horse, ha
>You can whip your Porsche
>I been in the valley
>You ain't been up off the porch, now
He’s literally bragging about the country lifestyle

yes but almost all stuff on modern billboard top country songs would be pop...

I don't know, given that's it's hardly different than all the snapping pop country songs. Plus there was the Nelly/Tim McGraw song that sounds about as country as this song

ok. but id like to understand what billboards criteria is... id argue little of the stuff on the hot country list is all that different from pop other than aesthetics and lyrical themes... this has country aesthetics and lyrical themes as well but instead of being stylistically pop its rap. i dont think it necessarily doesnt belong there

that's because all billboard country songs are unexceptionally "southern-flavored" pop, not real country. real country is pretty absent from the radio

Reminder that Darius Rucker has been on the charts for years

yes is why im saying that white supremecy is the reason it was removed. not because "its not real country"

has nothing to do with white supremacy. it's just idiots who wish to politicize a non-political issue. it's simply not a real country song

How is it not a “real country song”? It’s about the joys of living out in the country sung with a pronounced southern twang and played with banjo music underneath. What is a “real” country song?

whats the criteria that defines "real country". most of the stuff on the hot country list is not "real country" by any stetch. id say country themes and aethetics are the only things defining certain pop as country for them. this has country themes and aesthetics.

tell me what makes the rest of their country charts real country and this not...

>it's simply not a real country song
no one is saying it is. nothing on the billboard country charts is real country-- which is a subset of north american folk music. we're saying it is just as much country as the pop music that is on the charts.

real country features real instruments (no edm/hiphop beats), has lots of twang and hint of swing and blues. also rapping belong in country music. here's some examples of real country:
youtube.com/watch?v=hRIRTQ_k-Sg
youtube.com/watch?v=e913EJVVIHE
youtube.com/watch?v=7KOKM46MnhE

i honestly don't get the allure of country music to rappers. why is it so horrible to be a rapper instead of an country singer?

youre not understanding what were saying. we're talkgin about belonging in the billboard country charts not that its classic country-- many of the songs in the country charts have what you woudl call "not real instruments (synths, electronic drums, etc)"

im not saying what makes it different from classic country. were saying it belongs on the country charts like other songs on there that are more pop yet have similar lyrical themes and aesthetics as the lil nas x song does...

but that song has no country aesthetics. its just a hiphop song with a few banjo samples set to some video clips of rdr2 gameplay

This charted at 23 on the Hot Country Charts and it has electronic beats and a guy rapping on it? Why did that count but this doesn’t?

youtu.be/KSurzeGvPrQ

Because racist magapedes and rednecks are the only people who actually like country and they don't want negroes on their radio

They hate fun

that's not real country either. it's just pop

protip! watch the first video before you make an ass of yourself

Bro idgaf 99.9% of this genre is hick redneck trash

At this point the butthurt NIN fans are drowning out the country purists as far as hating on the song goes.

>that's not real country either. it's just pop
But it was allowed to stay and chart, what makes one acceptable as country and the other not? Accidental racist isn’t even about horses

no. that's just what white-trash thinks, because they've never been outside their hipster-habitats. real country is about telling a true story people can relate to. it has nothing to do with skin-color

see this