RMR Details

2018 was the year of Walmart Yodel Kid. 2019 was, quite indisputably, the year of ‘Old Town Road’. And in 2020, the ‘Yeehaw’ wave shows no signs of letting up. Step forward RMR, a mystery-shrouded new country-trap star-in-the-making who has just released ‘Rascal’, a song as sublime as it is ridiculous.

‘Rascal’ dropped seemingly out of nowhere last week and instantly started flooding our timelines. A crooner-trap belter that sounds like Young Thug doing Keith Urban, it comes with a quite astounding video – who even knew that Saint Laurent made bulletproof vests? – that works as the ultimate bait-and-switch defiance of expectations. A mysterious balaclava-clad man sings with world-weariness and pathos while waving around his firearms collection. Is it meant as a joke? Is it serious? Who even cares – it’s brilliant.

So far, it’s racked up over 700k views on YouTube , and has been dubbed “one of the best songs of 2020” so far, as well as “your new obsession” and a “transfixing country trap ballad” that’s worthy of being played at weddings. It has left some listeners quite literally speechless. Expect it to blow up even further in the coming days.

It’s set to a stripped-back piano rendition of ‘Bless The Broken Road’ by Ohio country crew Rascal Flatts, a song that gained recent viral traction after being covered by a bin man on American Idol.