I love this song and I have been listening to it on repeat for hours. I know Lil Nas X is not alone and I love that he is using his platform to share his own experiences as a gay man, as he becomes comfortable being gay and a celebrity. “I know we promised to never come out publicly, I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist,” Lil Nas X wrote. On March 26, Lil Nas X tweeted a letter to a younger version of himself about coming out as gay. He addressed the message to “14-year-old Montero,” using his given name, Montero Lamar Hill. The song and video show just how versatile he is, especially when you compare it to “Old Town Road.” It is also a statement that he is not afraid to be himself and do what makes him happy. Personally, I love the imagery and the fantasy world Lil Nas X created. It appears people started to get pretty upset when Lil Nas X, wearing a pair of briefs and thigh-high boots, gracefully pole danced his way down to Hell and proceeded to give a CGI Satan a lap dance. He is then seen wearing a pink wig being chained up surrounded by blue wigged versions of himself. The video opens with Lil Nas X playing a pink guitar under a funky tree in a fantasy world as a giant snake slithers around. "Need a boy who can cuddle with me all night / Keep me warm, love me long, be my sunlight / Tell me lies, we can argue, we can fight / Yeah, we did it before, but we'll do it tonight," he croons in "That's What I Want." "These days, I'm way too alone / And I'm known for giving love away, but / I want someone who love me / I need someone who needs me.Lil Nas X recently released his new song “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and the music video sparked controversy. True, there's no "I Want To hold Your Hand" in the Lil Nas X canon to date, but at their most "universal," his tunes land and stick the landing: He's already being hailed for exploring the darker sides of gay sexuality in the down-ticket songs on Montero, but there's a gentleness in them - the humor again? - you'll seek without finding in the tormented, hot-to-the-touch Ocean. "Baby, ain't tryna be your baby / Understand, I'm just tryna be the daily." "I been workin' on my body / You ever seen a n#gga hit Pilates? (ah) / No, I ain't feelin' sorry".
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In the endearingly titled "Scoop" he salutes the body-consciousness at the tortured heart of the gay male and show business nexus: There's no missing the point of "Dolla Sign Slime," and it's "Industry Baby," whose video displays him dancing in the altogether, fronting a naked chorus line.
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The hazards of sudden fame surface in song after song. He can only be serenading himself in "One of Me," when he spits the rhyme, "Tell me that you think you won't top your last creation / Word on the block is you fell off and I'm just sayin' / If it ain't Old Town Road, Lil Nas he ain't playin'." The songs of Montero bristle with a sly self-awareness.
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I spot in Lil Nas X an almost Ocean-like studious avoidance of falsetto, a calling card for gay songsters of all races since forever and the core, as it were, of Smollett's sound. I'm just spit-balling here, but I wager that Lil Nas has an eye to the big career, acutely aware that he's walking a tightrope strung between gay forebears as opposite as Frank Ocean and Jussie Smollett (the latter of whom, before an act of career self-immolation, gave notice of a Dionne Warwick-level talent).
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And lest anyone miss the point, "Call Me By Your Name" is in the songster's lyrics. This, in my book, is real moniker management. The layered pun of literally following Montero with "Call Me By Your Name" in the title of his new CD is, for me, cheeky genius - teased by Lil Nas's red-carpet run in three regal costumes at this year's post-pandemic Met Gala that just trounced the designer gym-suited Timothee Chalamet in the masculinity department. But I think Lil Nas X gets far too little credit for that stinging, if gentle, sense of humor and that penetrating, if cooing, high baritone. Nor am I impervious to the now-22-year-old's barely pixilated nudity and borderline louche dance moves. I was not, prior to Montero, indifferent to the pillow-lipped pulchritude of the one-time manager of Nicki Minaj's Twitter fan account. I'm here to tell you: Lil Nas nails "Little Lamb." My personal method of conducting the Legge test is seeing whether I can hear the exact sound of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" as sung by the vocalist under question.