“Very good for a giant bug,” said patient Joseph Matos as he critiqued the giant insect’s moves. “It was very exciting, they asked me and I was like ‘Yep I’m doing it,” said Gonzalez.Īpparently these dancers didn’t put on their bug spray, which is a good thing, because Lightning Mascot Thunderbug also dropped in. “Well children are really resilient so I think they get motivated and it gives them some strength when we are able to incorporate having a good time and it may not always be something sad or hard that you are coming into, it will give them something to look forward to,” said nurse Tracy Mouring.Ĭhabdieliz Gonzalez, 17, may be tethered to a machine but it didn’t stop her from two stepping. Joining the nurses were a couple patients currently going through treatment. The idea is to use their giddy up to raise awareness for childhood cancer. PINELLAS NEWS | The latest headlines from Pinellas County “They challenged us and of course we’ll never turn down a challenge in the Infusion Center so of course we said challenge accepted,” said Bishop. These nurses were responding to a music video made by fellow nurses in the cancer unit on 7 South in the main hospital. “We pretty much dance non stop around here, we dance for patients when its their birthday, when its their last treatment, their first treatment, we dance on Fridays we dance on Tuesdays,” said Rene Bishop. The nurses at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Infusion Center were infused with energy this week as they got down to the Git Up Dance by Blanco Brown. It’s a whole lot closer sonically to what country stars like Sam Hunt or Kane Brown have been doing recently than is is to any actual rap.ST. That sound works pretty well, but it’s not even remotely rap.
On Brown’s 2019 self-titled EP, we hear what that means: drawling, bluesy country songs over big 808 thunks. But he’s also spent time in the Nashville world, developing a style that he calls trailer trap. He got his start as a pop-rap producer, working with people like Pitbull and Fergie. Brown, like Lil Nas X, comes from Atlanta. But he has won the acceptance of the country system, which isn’t easy to do. This won’t happen with “The Git Up,” which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart before Gwen Stefani’s boyfriend’s Southern rock power ballad reclaimed the top spot.īlanco Brown is not an internet-savvy teenager, and he has not turned “The Git Up” into a cause. In being rejected by the country authorities, Lil Nas X took hold of that perception - of a racist and set-in-its-ways country-music governing body - and used it to leapfrog into the pop mainstream. The kid knows what he’s doing.) When “Old Town Road” was banished from the country chart, it became a sort of internet cause, which helped fuel its rise. (This was one of many, many canny decisions that Lil Nas X has made. When Lil Nas X uploaded “Old Town Road” to SoundCloud, he labeled the song “country” - partly because it sort of is a country song, and partly because that genre tag made the song more likely to appear on various SoundCloud charts. Blanco Brown would still like to repeat it.Ī big part of the “Old Town Road” legend is that the song appeared exactly once on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. At this point, “Old Town Road” seems likely to break the record for the longest-reigning #1 single.
And before anyone has any idea what’s happening, a cultural phenomenon is born.
(The beat samples an old Nine Inch Nails instrumental, but neither teenager has any idea who that is.) The Atlanta teenager records a bunch of non-sequitur cowboy-based lyrics over it, pushes it hard on social media, and blows up via the social-media app TikTok. A 19-year-old Atlanta kid buys a beat from a Dutch teenager. By this point, the story of “Old Town Road” feels like music-industry legend, even as the song remains #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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