Bill Ray Cyrus said it was “so obvious” that Old Town Road was a field. The song was controversial when Billboard withdrew it from the Hot Country Songs Chart late last month and expressed his opinion that the song not cover enough elements of todays Country Music to discuss in its current version. For his part, Cyrus didn’t seems to agree with the verdict of Billboards at all. It was so obvious to me after hearing the song just once. The country star and former Disney father Billy Ray Cyrus has decided to give his voice to Lil Nas at Xs Old Town Road, the song that has evolved from an Internet obsession for members to a hit in a few months. In the same tweet thread mentioned above, Cyrus told fans that he liked memes and gave a simple reason why he thought Old Town Road was as much a country song as any other, Whats the rudimentary element of a country and western song? It’s honest, modest and has a contagious hook and a banjo. Nas himself presented a less loaded theory as to why he felt that his song had been directed in this way. Whenever you’re try something new, it’s will always have some kind of bad reception, he said Time. Despite all the anxiety this caused, the song seems to have fostered camaraderie between Cyrus and Nas. I thought whats wasn’t about the country. He wrote on Twitter at age 57. Many others seem to share Cyruss’s point of view, and some believe Billboards’s decision to remove the song from the charts may have been motivated by race. Billy ray came to my study session last night and gave me one of the most uplifting conversations I’ve ever heard in my life, The 19-year-old rapper wrote on Twitter on Friday. The song was controversial when Billboard removed it from his country’s playlists late last month and expressed his opinion that the song does did not understand enough of the elements of today’s Country Music to present it in its current version. For his part, Cyrus didn’t seems to agree with Billboard’s verdict. It was so obvious to me after hearing the song only once.

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