Lil Nas X - Holiday

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New sort-of Christmas themed single, but also not really, with a MEGABUCKS VIDEO -



See I LOVE LOVE LOVE Lil Nas X as a personality, his social media is amazing, he oozes charisma and is obviously ABSOLUTELY STUN GORGEOUS but the music is just meh for me.

I REALLY want to like this song more than I do...but it's just a bit nothingy. And despite the big bucks video, as the song is SO SHORT it ends up all being a bit of a too-quick hot pot of maximalism that doesn't QUITE work for me - he was clearly going for some sort of gay Christmas 'Sock It 2 Me' kinda of video vibe

Currently not doing THAT WELL either - and for a video with quite a lot of hype behind it, the views aren't spectacular either a few days on...I don't know why they haven't found him the material to match his platform.

 

[Jark]

Well, this is a complete disaster of a comeback single and a lesson in how NOT to manage the career of somebody who's a one/two-hit-wonder turned full time Instagram persona.

Not only is the song far too weak to come back with 18 months after your last hit, but marketing it as a Christmas themed single with a super-gaudy video when the song isn't a Christmas song feels... so bizarrely misguided. What a way to make yourself seem like a novelty popstar. What were they thinking?

The video may be big budget but it's also terrible. And yes it had a catastrophically bad Spotify debut, not that it deserves to be a hit.

 

[RJN]

The song is weak and kind of boring, but he does call himself a bottom in it, which is kind of shocking for a mainstream rap song

 

[ButterTart]

I just can't imagine how anyone could possibly enjoy this sort of song; it's just a couple of minutes of absolutely nothing.

 

[COB]

I quite enjoyed it And i suppose these things are all relative but isn't ten million views in two days quite good?

 

[dUb]

The song is weak and kind of boring, but he does call himself a bottom in it, which is kind of shocking for a mainstream rap song

Yes I enjoyed and appreciated this!

 

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I quite enjoyed it And i suppose these things are all relative but isn't ten million views in two days quite good?

Oh 10 million is obviously not to be sniffed at, but I think his team were somewhat relying on the video being MASSIVE and somewhat breaking the internet to launch this single - and it just sort of hasn’t

 

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I am WILLING for him to put something good out though. He has it all, just not the GOOD SONGS

 

[VoR]

If it wasn't for that insanely expensive-looking video, I'd assume this was just some kind of fun festive buzz track. I mean, it's so short!

I did LOL pretty hard at the bottom line though.

 

[GNL]

He's charming, but as far as this song goes, I think this is exactly what you'd expect to happen if you gave a BARB a massive record deal.

 

[Pipo]

It kinda reminds me of Panini, bet it'll be huge regardless if its not catchy!

 

[joanne]

Well, this is a complete disaster of a comeback single and a lesson in how NOT to manage the career of somebody who's a one/two-hit-wonder turned full time Instagram persona.

Not only is the song far too weak to come back with 18 months after your last hit, but marketing it as a Christmas themed single with a super-gaudy video when the song isn't a Christmas song feels... so bizarrely misguided. What a way to make yourself seem like a novelty popstar. What were they thinking?

The video may be big budget but it's also terrible. And yes it had a catastrophically bad Spotify debut, not that it deserves to be a hit.

i was wondering why i was left so confused by the video but you just summarized my feelings precisely.

i do love this line though: "they wanna know if I'll be lastin', bitch even if i started flopping, there'd be fashion!" it's just so... ARTPOP!