When someone asked if men should "dress androgynously and sleep with satin " Lil Nas X responded "yes." In another tweet, he wrote, "y'all love saying we going to hell but get upset when i actually go there lmao." The agenda to make people stay the f-ck out of other people's lives and stop dictating who they should be." -nope ? March 26, 2021įrom there, the dunking began. "You see this is very scary for me, people will be angry, they will say i'm pushing an agenda," he wrote in the note posted shortly after the song's release. Before that, however, he posted a letter to his younger self, setting the tone for the discourse going forward and explicitly codifying what was apparent: "Montero" was deeply personal, provocative, and political all at once. On the day of release, Lil Nas X was inviting, and even celebrating, backlash and criticism to his new song interspersed with posts hyping it up. On the day of release for 'Montero (Call Me By Your Name),' Lil Nas X quickly responded to early criticism
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And as New York Times pop music critic Jon Caramanica wrote, that performance was just as artful as "Montero" itself. In a Twitter tour de force, Lil Nas X has dunked on his critics - who range from South Dakotan Governor Kristi Noem to right-wing Twitter personality Candace Owens - one by one.
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The song, which Lil Nas X has said is based on a man he fell for, and its music video, which quite literally shows him denying heaven to fully express his sexuality, seemed perfectly primed to ruffle the feathers of American conservatives and evangelicals - and ruffle they did. Beginning with a snake seducing Lil Nas X in the Garden of Eden, it notably ends with the singer pole dancing his way into hell before giving Satan himself a lap dance, killing him, and taking his crown.
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The music video for "Montero" is a lush, erotic ride flush with Christian imagery. y'all are not gonna win bro," the singer tweeted on March 29, three days after the single's release, in the midst of confronting a moral panic over his single and a sneaker collaboration with MSCHF known as "Satan Shoes." The 21-year-old singer, who's known not only for his music but also for being extremely online, released his latest single "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" on Friday, and those who deigned to raise their voices against him never had a chance. If there's any celebrity who's guaranteed to win in a Twitter fight, it's Lil Nas X.