Lil Nas X drops 'Industry Baby' MV featuring Jack Harlow Lil Nas X dons daring outfit at BET Awards 2021, dubbed ‘outlandish red carpet look’ Who did Lil Nas X kiss? Singer shamed by homophobic trolls for gutsy smooch at BET Awards 2021 The controversial crooner quickly grabbed a spot on Twitter’s trending list as social media users could not get enough of the music video where Lil Nas X gets butt naked. The ‘Old Town Road (Remix)’ hitmaker’s latest single is a follow up to his recent single called ‘MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)’ which he had also performed at the recent BET Awards 2021.
Take A Daytrip - the duo consisting of Denzel Baptiste and David Biral - are also listed as co-producers on the song. The song which addresses Lil Nas X’s controversial Nike ‘Satan Shoes’ and him being gay was accompanied by stunning visuals. The track has been produced by Kanye West, who has his own album ‘Donda’ dropping on Friday, July 23. The advertisers look likely to be beating a path to his door for a long time yet.Lil Nas X finally dropped his much-awaited single called ‘Industry Baby’ which also features Jack Harlow. On the evidence of Montero – an album from which you could excerpt pretty much any track and be rewarded with a hit – he needn’t worry. “Never forget me and everything I’ve done,” he sings, as if he expects his current flush of success to be fleeting. Instead, the closer is Am I Dreaming?, a troubled ballad featuring a wracked-sounding Miley Cyrus. You expect the album to collect itself and end on an optimistic note, but it doesn’t. These are about depression, loneliness – Void appears to be addressed to Lil Nas X’s stylist Hodo Musa, and appears to suggest theirs is the closest relationship in his life – and his grim adolescence, marked by parental abuse and struggles with his sexuality, and enlivened only by his life online, “stanning Nicki morning into dawn”. Out go the crowing and the guest appearances from Megan Thee Stallion, in come more bleakly affecting songs. It’s front-loaded with tracks that strut and boast, before the emotional temperature suddenly plummets. There is a real confidence about its variety – presumably bolstered both by his success to date and the fact that he can sing as well as he can rap – and a confidence, too, about its structure. Frankly, it would be a fantastic album whether or not it featured Lil Nas X snapping “I ain’t talking guns when I ask where your dick at” on Scoop, or opened with a track berating a publicly straight man he’s been shagging on the quiet.Ĭover art for Montero.
“Just stick to what you’re good at,” he advises a rival, witheringly, “I suggest you make another one like that”. It seems appropriate that the aforementioned Taco Bell ad shows him performing That’s What I Want accompanied by a band staffed by multiple versions of himself in a nod to the video for Outkast’s Hey Ya! – not just because That’s What I Want’s breezy rhythm and acoustic guitar riff is audibly influenced by it but because Lil Nas X himself recalls Outkast’s André 3000, both in his ballsy approach to matters sartorial and in his disinclination to be artistically hemmed in. Song for song, Montero has more hooks – and stickier ones – than any other big rap album thus far released in 2021: the indelible chorus of That’s What I Want, the luminous tune at odds with Tales of Dominica’s disconsolate lyrics Dead Right Now, which is rich and luscious enough to get listeners checking the credits to see what 70s soul track it samples, only to discover it’s original. The genre-hopping is unified by melodies. It hits an impressively eclectic sweet spot between hip-hop and pop, leaping confidently from trap beats and martial horns to grinding, distorted hard rock from music that recalls early 00s R&B to stadium ballads. What Montero proves is that he requires absolutely no special pleading. A cynic would say that Lil Nas X has been a beneficiary of the ongoing culture war that liberal voices would feel duty-bound to praise his work to the skies.