– How pop culture embraced ‘sexuality without labels’Īs for those who might take issue with such displays of queerness? Lil Nas X has positively revelled in provoking them. – One of the world’s misunderstood love songs? Warning: this article contains strong language that some readers may find offensive Then, in another appearance at the BET awards a couple of weeks ago, he went one step further, giving a passionate kiss to one of his backing dancers while dressed as a pharaoh. Performing the song on Saturday Night Live in May, he was clad in a leather two-piece painted with red flames, with his oiled-up torso on display, as half-naked men danced behind him, and one of them even licked him. Released in March, the video for the album's lead single Montero (Call Me By Your Name) saw him pole-dance into the fiery depths of hell, before giving the devil a lap-dance, while wearing thigh high boots. As he gears up for the release of his debut album Montero this summer, the singer and rapper, who first hit the big time with the 2019 hit single Old Town Road, has put his sexuality front and centre of his campaign. Lil Nas X is the most homoerotic man in music right now.
