Riot started the campaign by introducing LilNasX as the new president of League to hype up the new song:
This is the song:
Reddit reacts:
Lil Nas X - STAR WALKIN’ (League of Legends Worlds 2022 Anthem [almost 3000 comments]
This was... a little boring tbh.
Yeah, pretty underwhelming. Also I don't feel the energy, so I don't see it grow on me like Worlds Collide or Pheonix after hearing it 20 times. I feel like they could've mixed it better to feel more hype. They have the possibility of carrying that chorus, it has some good vibes.
Didn't feel the hype.
Holy, the video feels so soulless. It's lacking in so many ways. [...]
The overall sentiment seems to be the following - it's a decent (although generic) song that lacks the necessary hype previous songs composed for the event created. The entire thread and mostly the entire league community agrees on this.
Further threads about the song:
Star Walkin' is actually completely revolutionary
A quick fix to the 2022 Anthem so you can hype once again
A couple of people have made the meme to listen to the song at 1,25 speed so it becomes better:
https://x.com/LSXYZ9/status/1572965451449401346
GUYS JUST PUT THE #WORLDS2022 SONG AT 1.25 SPEED ON YOUTUBE AND IT BANGS. REAL. TRUE.
Which of course is quite memeable:
https://x.com/Riot_ChoGath/status/1572972159118745602
Guys put the Worlds Song at 2x speed trust me.
It still sucks but at least its over faster
However, LilNasX doesn't like what the league community is doing to him at all and seethes about it - on tiktok and twitter pretending to play along with the meme 
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"First up is a tik tok basically giving a WTF did I get into look with the quote Reading league of legends fans react to Starwalkin"
if you don’t like star walkin try listening to it at 1.25x speed, with an octave up, and drums filtered, on an nintendo 3ds, at 3am, while your parents are arguing in the background because things just keep getting worse and you say it’s not your fault but you know it is and you
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I liked it not because it's good but because the creator is black and gay.
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This is how Anthony Fantano determines his ratings these days
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Has any man so torpedoed his reputation over 1 C-tier music blog calling him rightoid-adjacent before?
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High
key miss thatistheplan
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Seriously, there was a lot of genuinely funny shit on there.
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And now with his wife gone, his own s*x partners
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broke: I listen to a song and judge it objectively
woke: I listen to a song and judge it by my own subjective standards and tastes
bespoke: I do not listen to any songs and I decide if they're good or not based on the artist's minority status
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wokebespoke: I pay for concerts of minorities with no intention of going as raparations
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raparations cause it's a rap concert right
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Absolute shit being promoted as something great is way more damaging to minorities these days than racism, change my view.
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Back to reddit with you
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Ok champ.
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buck status: broken. And that’s a Good Thing.
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Lil Nas X always sucked and was a meme musician. People just deceived themselves into thinking he was talented because he’s super gay and super black.
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His songs are fun >:(
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Yeah, they’re alright. I’m just foolin’.
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Take my horse to Riot Games
Gonna cry till I can't no more
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Seems like a odd artist to make a song for league of legends but I didn’t know riot commissioned songs for their esports
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Constantly doing songs for Riot is the only thing that's kept Imagine Dragons together for like 5 years.
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They also do commercials.
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They got him to do a song because rap makes people
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Wait til you get the official world cup song written by lil baby
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It's over for BIPOCs selling out to popular videogames they don't even understand.
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at least post actual kino
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People unironically enjoy this???
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downdongered for wrong opinion
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Lutschercel, the sound of the dark woods is coming nearer....
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The fake interviews they did around the music video were awkward and uncomfortable, but the song itself is pretty good.
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It sounded really generic and soulless, like most pop music.
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I think you meant to post this
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timeless banger people will praise this in 200 years like we do with beethoven and wagner
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95 million views, bro the kpop world is crazy. sidenote why do youtube music channels never allow you to sort by most viewed? shit pisses me off
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I'm pretty sure 95 million views means that song is close to a failure, too. Like if Blackpink released actual shit, it would get 75 million views.
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also music channels dont show every video thats available on the channel. you have to manually search the title to find some of them. its really fricking dumn
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Koreans did black and gay better than Nas X
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too bad, the imagine dragons song was good
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league kino music: popstars, lightbringer, rise, get jinxed
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i know
none of those, i dont play league
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I liked the Vi release song.
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lil nas x is the epitome of a redditor. the thing is he couldve been a dramanaut at heart but he didnt find /r/drama and instead found /r/gamingcirclejerk and now he's forever lame
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wow /r/gamingcirclejerk is a really big subreddit
full of bland annoying looking content
only gaming meme subreddit I know is /r/truestl
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I listened to some of the other ‘worlds’ songs that Redditors think are good and of course they suck balls
Playlist:
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I feel like the only thing that matters is that it's passable to play in the background while people take the stage and this Lil Nas one is the only one that fails even that most basic shit test.
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True
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another lil x marketing post
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lil nas x, billie eilish and the wolfhardt brothers would post all here in another life
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Lil Nas X - STAR WALKIN’ (League of Legends Worlds 2022 Anthem:
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Star Walkin' is actually completely revolutionary.:
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1.25:
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The 1. 25 speed does improve the song. I mean, still nothing to write home about but much improved.
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Nothing League does will ever top this:
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Nas X made one okay song that blew up and has been trying to coast ever since, Buck Broken Beyond Belief
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Do you think Nas X sucked off Billy Ray Cyrus for the feature or
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On the one hand, Riot's worlds songs have been shit
for years. Worlds collide was the last good 
worlds song, so this is par for the course.
On the other hand, Riot
do make 
good 
songs ocassionaly in between the women 
beating 
sessions, under 
the pentakill name. So they can make 
some genuinely good 
music, when they dont do worlds or kda or similar garbage.
Honestly, I dont know
where 
I was going 
with this, but give 
pentakill a try if you've never 
listened to it https://youtube.com/watch?v=ykfIH9y1a14
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Good. The guy has a couple really good songs but got wayyyy too cocky cause the gen public sucked him off for being gay. Hopefully he takes this personally and actually comes out with something good again
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Most league songs are kinda mid anyway.
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Why is that queer allowed to remind people of Nas? Is there something generic or just universally black about the name I'm not aware of?
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Seems like a case of Riot
being lazy 
and thinking 
“yeah let’s just 
throw 
a ton of money 
at someone famous I’m sure 
it will 
be good”
They should have hired some rando artist
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I like this kid, he's a bit like Marilyn Manson in that being an elite-level troll compensates for the fact that he has literally no musical ability whatsoever.
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