“All the controversy and conversation around Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” over the last few weeks has largely glossed over one important thing: The song is good. It is infectious country trap that doesn’t take anything too seriously. As Lil Nas X sings of decamping for the grasslands of an unsettled America and fleeing on horseback, he is playing up country-ness as a meme, sure, but also as an ideal”