Season 7 - LNX & LAB

Lil Nas X & Labrinth

## Enter The Season

**LNX & Lab** is the seventh season of **Jaracza Music Getaway** series. This season, the participants listened to the music of *Montero Lamar Hill* and *Timothy Lee McKenzie,* known as **Lil Nas X** and **Labrinth**.

## About The Artists

### Lil Nas X

**Montero Lamar Hill** (born April 9, 1999), known by his stage name **Lil Nas X** (/nɑːz/ *NAHZ*), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single "Old Town Road", which first achieved viral popularity in early 2019 before climbing music charts internationally and becoming diamond certified by November of that same year, moving over ten million certified units in streaming and sales combined.

"Old Town Road" spent 19 weeks atop the U.S. *Billboard* Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song since the chart debuted in 1958. Several remixes of the song were released, the most popular of which featured country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. As "Old Town Road" was atop the Hot 100, Lil Nas X came out as gay, becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record.

Following the success of "Old Town Road", Lil Nas X released his debut extended play, titled *7*, which spawned two further singles⁠, with "Panini" peaking at number five and "Rodeo" (featuring Cardi B or Nas) peaking at number 22 on the Hot 100. His debut studio album, *Montero* (2021), was supported by the chart-topping singles "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" and "Industry Baby" (with Jack Harlow) and the top-ten single "Thats What I Want", and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.

Lil Nas X was the most-nominated male artist at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, where he ultimately won awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. "Old Town Road" earned him two MTV Video Music Awards including Song of the Year, and the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song; Lil Nas X is also the first openly LGBT Black artist to win a Country Music Association award. *Time* named him as one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet in 2019, and he was named on the *Forbes* 30 Under 30 list in 2020.

### Labrinth

**Timothy Lee McKenzie** (born 4 January 1989), better known by his stage name **Labrinth**, is an English singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. After initially pursuing a career in music production, Simon Cowell signed him to his record label Syco Music as a recording artist, becoming the first singer who Cowell signed without having competed on a talent show in six years. Labrinth collaborated with the English rapper Tinie Tempah, appearing as an uncredited featured artist on the single "Pass Out", and later officially on "Frisky"; before releasing his first solo single, "Let the Sun Shine" in September 2010, all three of which peaked in the top five on the UK Singles Chart.

His debut album, *Electronic Earth* (2012), peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and spawned four top five singles in the United Kingdom. The single "Beneath Your Beautiful", became his first song to reach the top 40 on the US *Billboard* Hot 100, and peaked at number one in the United Kingdom, and also received a nomination for Best British Single at the Brit Awards. In November 2014, he released the single "Jealous", which was later certified Platinum in the United Kingdom. In 2018, Labrinth formed the supergroup LSD with Australian singer-songwriter Sia and American DJ and producer Diplo. They released their self-titled debut album the following year.

In October 2019, he composed the score for the first season of the HBO drama series *Euphoria*, it received two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, winning one for the single "All for Us"; he then released his second album *Imagination & the Misfit Kid* (2019). In April 2022, *Euphoria Season 2 Official Score (From the HBO Original Series)* composed by Labrinth, was released. It earned him an additional two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the songs "I'm Tired" and "Elliot's Song", written alongside Zendaya.

He has been referred to as “one of the most important British musicians of his generation.” Labrinth has worked with numerous artists as a songwriter and producer including Beyoncé, Kanye West, and the Weeknd. His production work on the Weeknd's album Beauty Behind the Madness earned him a Grammy Award for Album of the Year nomination. He also co-produced the soundtrack *The Lion King: The Gift*, and co-wrote the single "Spirit", alongside Beyoncé and Ilya Salmanzadeh, for which he received nominations at the Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

## Background

The participants knew that the seventh season of the **Jaracza Music Getaway' *series would be conducted by Wiciu, and thus there were speculations on Labrinth being the presented artist. It was the idea of the presenter to increase the confusion, and hence there were many different actions planned, such as: creating a fake Wikipedia entry called* 'Season 7 - There's no LSD without SD** (discovered by Eric), multiple different YouTube playlists with unaaaa

## Promotion and Schedule

The season was revealed after the final ranking of Ralph Kaminski discography. It was divided in four parts, and whole experience can be rewatched as a playlist under this link.

* **Jaracza Music Getaway Wiki Reveal** - the Wikipedia was revealed to all the participants through a trailer. It was initially kept as surprise, where Eric and Wiciu created all its contents during the sixth season of **Jaracza Music Getaway** series. The trailer of the website was preceded with a recap of all six seasons, with the winning song of a wining album played in the background.
* **Kahoot! Reveal Puzzle** - a short interactive Kahoot, with a story-line of solving puzzles to reveal a VHS casette. The victory was taken by Weronika.
* **Joke Trailer** - due to the way YouTube playlists work with adding videos to already played playlist, Wiciu needed to include two additional videos beforehand. Another reason for the joke trailer to exist was to mess with Jules, as she has seen YouTube playlist called PM&TS, which was the previous name for this season.
* **Official Trailer** - finally the official trailer was played, with Weronika being the one with crown (due to her victory in *Kahoot! Reveal Puzzle*), and Lil Nas X and Labrinth revealed.

The first artist to be presented in the season was *Lil Nas X*. The calendar of two weeks with the artist was posted, including all the activities schedule.

After the *LIL NAS X GALA* event, *Labrinth*'s part of the season took over with the duration of 7 weeks. During the second week, the participants will be ranking two positions being Atomic EP and The Singles compilation, which is the first time in the series such a thing will happen.

The calendar posted as schedule for the Lil Nas X part.The calendar posted as schedule for the Labrinth part.
## Albums

### Labrinth

The Labrinth part of the getaway was cut short, due for the *Ends & Begins* release delay. After the next season took over, the participants have returned for an extension pack of this season, during which the *Ends & Begins* was listened. It was not partaken in the ranking of albums, as the season results were already conducted on The Labrinth Gala.

## Finale

### LIL NAS X GALA

The first part of the season was summed up with an event called *LIL NAS X GALA*. The event was used to present the official results of MONTERO songs ranking, present music videos of Lil Nas X, as well as discover which record is rated better by the participants - 7 EP or MONTERO. Additionally, there were many surprises along the way - such as announcement of Kama as guest participant for the second part of the season and music videos from NASARATI and singles that were not mentioned in during the two weeks with Lil Nas X. The GALA experience can be seen in a playlist under this link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqMcNXwuS-OXvuUOzdApc28n-0mlF-fhh

### LAB GALA

The second part of the season has conducted with a Gala. The participants voted for the theme of the gala to be related to Greek Mythology. While some questions may arise on it's significance, it could be asked to a lot of different elements of the Jaracza Music Getaway serie. Similar to Lil Nas X Gala, the event focused on presenting official results of the album ranking, trophies reveal, as well as discovering the music videos of Labrinth. The experience can be seen as a playlist under the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqMcNXwuS-OWWeEcftnsd6ijMkrek3ywG