A lot of times if I'm saying something in a song, like the second verse in "Call Me" or even the first verse, or just talking about guys in music.
Has there ever been internal pushback on what you want to do and how you express yourself? We unintentionally say people are exactly our first thoughts of them – whatever I'm saying right now I may not agree with in a year, you know? Or things I'm doing right now, I may say 'Ah, I should've done that differently.' We change as people, over and over and over again. Yeah and I feel like it's going to happen over and over and over again. Do you ever feel like you've been put into a box so far in your career?
People a lot of the time see celebrities or anyone famous as just. They're letting you get a peek into their life, humanizes them. I thought about the people I look up to the most – Kanye, or Drake, or Nicki – what really connects is when they're saying the things that are happening internally. And perhaps anticipating that "That's What I Want" would ruffle some homophobic feathers, the singer has got out ahead of the haters this time, and showed them they can kiss his gay ass.Music Reviews Lil Nas X Is More Than Just A Meme Lord, Apparently
The video also includes a lengthy homage to the gay love story Brokeback Mountain, in particular the now-infamous "tent scene," providing a nod to Lil Nas' cowboy past with "Old Town Road".Īn unapologetically queer and raunchy sensibility has become a key part of Nas' whole deal as an artist every time there is pushback from conservative voices against the more "provocative" elements of his music, the more strongly he seems to embrace and express his identity as an openly gay Black man. It can also be argued that he is promoting safer sex a condom is featured heavily in one shot. The video can easily be interpreted as a statement about the homophobia in sports which keeps so many gay athletes closeted. While "Call Me By Your Name (Montero)" saw the musician pole-dancing all the way down to Hell to seduce the devil, and "Industry Baby" had him dancing naked in a prison shower, "That's What I Want" depicts Nas as a gay football player having sex with one of his teammates in the locker room after a game-and this isn't a subtle allusion where the camera pans away. After all, the music video for the most recent single from the album, "That's What I Want," was arguably his most sexually provocative yet. It's the kind of break-the-internet booty shot that we might not have been expecting from Lil Nas, but which is not exactly a surprise, either.
He took to Twitter and Instagram on Saturday evening to ask his followers if they've streamed the album yet, and marked the occasion by sharing a nude photo of himself, looking coyly over this shoulder at the camera with his butt on full display. Lil Nas X released his first full album, Montero, on Friday, following a highly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek publicity campaign which saw the young artist repeatedly don a prosthetic pregnancy belly ahead of the album's "birth." And while Montero has only been out in the world for a matter of days, it looks like Lil Nas has already bounced back to his pre-baby body.