For me and others like me, watching Lil Nas X slide down a stripper pole to hell and then give the devil a lap dance, right before killing him, was an iconic moment, forever emblazoned in our heads. And it was his response after he released the video for his latest hit, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” The red-hot video shocked, amazed, and brought out a brigade of Biblical pitchforks.įrom the moment the single dropped on March 26, 2021-quickly charting on Billboard and retaining a number one slot during its third week out-the video sparked controversy. The backlash only motivated Lil Nas X to sharpen his tools of shade-as evidenced by the haters he is known to gather across the Twittersphere. That level of vulnerability isn’t easy to come by these days, and I admire how steady he is on his path to fame. While I enjoyed his music before then, I became a stan after he showed his shadow self to us all. Lil Nas X went from cisgender straight affability to Butch-Queen-in-charge, bar none, real quick. His disclosure, and his coming-out process, were met with the typical religious and hypermasculine condemnation that LGBTQ people are practiced at receiving. The mad love he received turned quickly to entrenched hate, and homophobia reared its ugly head. This would all devolve when Lil Nas X came out of the proverbial closet on Jon Twitter.
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