The whole idea of segregated charts is odd to me.
'cos you aren't from a slave colony.
Minaj has a group of internet trolls attacking her or doing her bidding?
I don't think the original version of "Old Town Road" sampled Bily Ray Cyrus.
Billy Ray is kind of an outlaw, since selling your daughter to Disney isn't something that would be legal in a just society.
1: Do you mean segregation by genre? Isn't it to help radio stations figure out what songs they should play?
It was weirder when the R&B charts used to be called the "black charts."
Only a barbarian would print a chart in blue.
5: The original version of "Old Town Road" did sample Nine Inch Naiils.
8: Not "black". The industry called them "race records". Actually after checking Wikipedia, at first they called it the "Harlem Hit Parade" chart, but then switched to the more neutral "race records".
I distinctly remember listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 countdown on mornings (or maybe it was Rick Deez?), and every show, towards the end he'd say "And topping the black charts this week....."
Maybe it was a distinct period in the '80s, after race records and before R&N.
According to Wikipedia, authoritative source of all known information, the chart was named "Hot Black Singles" from June 1982 until October 1990.
Also according to Wikipedia, they merged it with the pop charts eight days after JFK's assassination but split it out again 14 months later.
I don't think the original version of "Old Town Road" sampled Bily Ray Cyrus.
Wait. So Billy Ray Cyrus just inserted himself in this weird story, without any intrinsic connection?
Also that makes the ejection from the country charts not quite as insane as I was picturing. So in the original, Lil Nas X is singing the country stuff?
In December 2018, a day after the original version's release, Lil Nas X tweeted out that he wanted Billy Ray Cyrus on the song
That was probably what got Billy Ray Cyrus's attention originally.
14: The music industry has been woefully underrepresented in JFK assassination conspiracy theories to date. At last we have an opportunity to remedy this.
"Put your left foot forward, back and to the left".
I did a karaoke version that has a quarter million views on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=87i2wVJqfWI it isn't a particularly good song to sing at karaoke though
I'm impressed by the horses in the machinima (is videogame-as-movie still called that?) but anxious that they never seem to get walked or rubbed down or have their feet checked.
Never look a .gif horse in the hoof.
"The whole idea of segregated charts is odd to me"
My local library had a segregated DVD section - the "Black Films" genre was defined as "any film of any genre whatsoever that has a black actor above the title". So, Much Ado About Nothing, Blade, The Colour Purple, Beverley Hills Cop and Othello all counted. The shelf also wasn't labelled so it took me a while to work out what the common factor was.
22: Video Amaericain in Baltimore (closed years ago) had some creative names for their sections. "Before we called them 'disfunctional'" (family dramas), "Donna Reed's worst nightmare" (Reform School Girls and suchlike exploitation movies), and my favorite; "Regular guys...in over their heads" (just what it says).
22 is amazing. DVDs and not Betamax cassettes? What on earth do you think was the rationale? Was it someone's misbegotten effort to attract "certain borrowers" to that shelf, and then, like, expand their horizons (I know you've seen Othello 20 times, but have you thought about Blade)?
They both have a woman getting stabbed, assuming vampires have gender in a way that we can understand.
Some motherfuckers are always trying to segregate uphill.
24: my guess is that they had other ethnic groups represented in the form of foreign language sections - there was a Hindi section and a Chinese (I think Cantonese) section IIRC - and they also had a black literature shelf, so they thought they ought to have a black film section too.
I'm less surprised that the 4th grade boys are all yelling the song now that I see a repeated line is "you can't tell me nothing", a 4th grade boy anthem if ever there was one.
So, what was the even shorter #1 song in 1965?
29: Henry VIII by Herman's Hermits. How could you forget?
I'd forgotten it was so short. In my head it seems interminable.
31: Yes, they had to drag it out to make it last a whole minute and a half.
Second verse, same as the first...
32: A little bit louder, a little bit worse!
A week or two ago they released a mini-film of it with high production values and it's delightful. Our entire family watched it on our big TV before Queer Eye.
I still haven't listened to Old Town Road but in my head canon it's a remake of Uncle Dave Macon's Way Down the Old Plank Road
It's a video, so I think it counts as a remake.
30: I am shocked to discover that was a pop song, and not just a kid's campfire song. Also that singer is so impish and adorable, but also boy were standards for humor lower back then.
What's really surprising to learn is that "When you're sliding into first, And your pants begin to burst," was first recorded by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
My God, there are people buying tickets, in 2019, to see Herman's Hermits. Oh, whoops, Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone. How old do you have to be to find him impish and adorable right now?
(OK, yes, I'm going to the Robert Plant show later this summer. Really, though, that's a way different kind of thing. Right?)
38. It was a music hall song from 1910.
"Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" is now stuck in my head.
And now it's stuck in mine too. Thanks.
When you are climbing on a wall and you feel something fall.
When you're warning of the British and the farts won't ever finish.
When you wake up in the morning and you fall on the floor and make a 40 yard dash to the bathroom door.
When you're blogging in the pm and you feel the pressure of a bm.
With the Sons of Liber'y and you're feeling kind of drippery.
When you wake up late for school and your lying in a pool.
When you're enjoying the orchestra, but you've been eating the olestra.
I'm so glad I never did a study where the main dependent variable was poop leaks.
It'd be worse if it were the independent variable.
"Listen, the randomized trial is the peak of medical science. It's how things like vaccines are tested. Now, that coin shows tails. Are you one of those anti-vaxer, flat-earthers or are you going to shit yourself right now?"
When the British troops are due, so you make it number two.
57: On behalf of the estate of Dean Martin and all of the good people of Steubenville, "Different song."
When the poop hits your eye like a big chocolate pie...
When you're riding to Concord
And you know how to pronounce it properly so it will fit with the theme of this thread