▲ Seoul Town Road

On July 24th, Lil Nas X and RM of BTS released a new remix of the song “Old Town Road” named, “Seoul Town Road”. Lil Nas X revealed it through his YouTube channel. Lil Nas X has had a lot of collaboration with Billy Ray Cyrus, Young Thug, Mason Ramsey, and Diplo through his song “Old Town Road”. So, the latest one with RM of BTS is his fourth remix collaboration.

▲ The cover of Seoul Town Road.

Lil Nas X released “Old Town Road” on December 3rd, 2018. This song did not catch popularity at first. However, it started to catch tremendous popularity through the Yeehaw challenge of TikTok. TikTok is a simple platform that shares short videos with music. Yeehaw challenge participants wear checkered clothes and act like cowboys with the song “Old Town Road”. With this popularity, Lil Nas X released a remix with Billy Ray Cyrus which took country music mood.

The people's reaction on the remix was explosive. Old Town Road breaks the record as the first place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks. Before this song, "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men and "Despacito" by Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi featuring Justin Bieber were the songs to set this record for 16 weeks. With this successful result, Lil Nas X suggested a collaboration to RM of BTS and "Seoul Town Road" was released. On its single cover, there is a purple horse which appears "ARMY" to be BTS' love for that is the fandom nave of BTS and a black horse. RM used a clever way of playing with the word "homi". It is a Korean farming tool. Lil Nas X used the word "homie" on his song.

BTS' RM's post on twitter which was about "Seoul Town Road" caught popularity with retweets of more than 250thousandK. Many people anticipated BTS and Lil Nas X's future performances.

▲ Twitter

August 17th, 2019

by Seonghyeon Park