For quite a
bit now, Lil Nas X has been teasing his new track. Originally titled "Call
Me By Your Name," he played a clip for fans while riding in his car on
Twitter. Since, he's been teasing us every chance he can get, dropping a longer
snippet under
the new name "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" in a Super Bowl ad, releasing
promo imagery, and more. Now, the star has released the full track along
with a music video.
According to a
release, "Montero" is Nas X's most revealing musical offering to
date, produced by Take a DayTrip, Omer Fedi, and Roy Enzo. It tells the story
of who Montero has become — Montero is Nas X's legal name.
"Dear 14
year old Montero," he wrote in a note to himself on Instagram posted
alongside the new project. "I wrote a song with our name in it. It's about
a guy I met last summer. 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."
The video itself
was imagined by the young performer with heavy nods to Greek mythology as well
as biblical references, opening in the Garden of Eden. Here, we find Nas as
Adam and then also as the snake. He tempts himself, with the snake pushing Adam
to the ground and licking his body.
In another
scene, Nas is about to be executed in the Coliseum, again surrounding with
versions of himself both in stone version and with wigs piled high. When he is
finally executed, after a slight rise, seemingly to heaven, he finds himself
falling, then spinning down a stripper pole that leads to hell. There, he
seduces the devil with a lap dance, if we are putting it simply. According to a
release he "harnesses his sexuality," to strip the devil "of his
power as an evil force — and dismantling the throne of judgment and punishment
that has kept many of us from embracing our true selves out of fear."
The video
comes as Nas X has undoubtedly gone through a similar trajectory. Even though
he's only been in the spotlight for a short while, fans have been able to watch
him go from avoiding his sexuality to harnessing and leaning
into it — rapping
lines like "I might bottom on the low but I top shit," —
even as others attempt to judge and chastise him for it.
"You see
this is very scary for me, people will be angry, they will say I'm pushing an
agenda," he continued in his letter to his teenaged self on Instagram.
"But the truth is, I am. The agenda to make people stay the fuck out of
other people's lives and stop dictating who they should be. Sending you love
from the future."
In the project, a tree appears quite early on and the text on it translates to "after the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other half." The tree is a tree of life and the quote is a nod to Plato's symposium.
On the floor
of hell the text reads "They condemn what they do not understand."
SOURCE: OUT DOT COM
I adore this vid. That ending... the best. The controversy about Satan Sneakers. To die for. Stupid azz preachers got nothing better to flap they gums about. Rolling my eyes. I totally support Lil Nas X... I am in LURVE.
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