Here’s an interesting product of the pandemic: More than a few artists are using the downtime to release unexpected holiday music, from Dolly Parton to the Goo Goo Dolls. While genre-bending rapper Lil Nas X hasn’t exactly announced plans for a full Christmas album, he’s still seemingly getting into the Yuletide spirit with a song called “Holiday,” which he teased during Sunday night’s NFL match-up between the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But if a parade of “Old Town Road” remixes have taught us anything, it’s that nothing involving the highly memed artist can be simple. Ergo, it’s not enough for Lil Nas X to dress as jolly St. Nick and hand out presents in the snow. Instead, he’s a time-traveling cowboy who essentially enters a Santa Clause-ian contract and becomes the Big Guy In Red, just in time to presumably save the holiday. It’s a mash-up between a Tim Allen classic and, for reasons unknown, Back To The Future III. Honestly, that can’t be weirder than anything else we’ve endured this year.
Speaking of the DeLorean-fueled trilogy, beloved time-traveling officianado Michael J. Fox shows up with an ominous warning for the new Santa: “Whatever you do Nas, don’t go to 2020.” Joke’s on him: Has he seen any of the rapper’s releases since his breakout single? He pretty much only lives in the future.
The Grammy-winning rapper has been working relatively silently since the release of his EP 7, which featured “Old Town Road” and “Panini.” “Holiday” is set to drop November 13. You can check out the trailer below.
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Just in time for the 2021 editions of “Just Dance “ and “Kidz Bop”!
Couldn’t be something fun in 2020 without reminding us of something terrible, like the fact that Michael J Fox is suffering from a debilitating disease and doesn’t look good at all in this trailer. 🙁
Does this mean people have warmed up to the idea of a skinny Santa Claus?
So this kid is officially at the “Addams Family (Whoomp!)“ stage of his career, huh?
What’s the point of releasing a 50-second trailer for what’s likely to be a sub-3-minute song?
I listened to his EP and it was interesting how many different genres he dabbled in there.I can’t figure out for the life of me where he’s going career-wise but it’s interesting that after beginning the year hanging out with muppets and doing some family friendly stuff despite being an out gay man— he’s still got some campy over the top production value yet seems to be going a little harder with language.