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- The Garden of Eden
- The Colosseum
- Descent Into Hell
- “Rock and Roll Tradition”
“Montero,” which was co-directed by Lil Nas X and Tanu Muino, is composed of three acts. The first one takes place in the garden of Eden, where Lil Nas plays either Adam, Eve or some combination of the two. His character is tempted into sin by a snake, who also has Lil Nas’ face. “The story of the garden is a tradition that is historically misogyni...
As the song’s second verse begins, the video turns to the Colosseum, where Lil Nas emerges shackled in a Marie Antoinette-like wig. While Nas himself is human, the angry masses in the crowd are all seemingly made of stone, which perhaps indicates that the mob turning against him lacks independent thought. Betancourt says the scene casts Lil Nas as ...
Before Lil Nas can reach Ganymede, however, a pole emerges from below; Lil Nas’ fingers curl around it, and he sails downward to hell. At the bottom, he lands in a red and black landscape that Betancourt says is indebted to both gothic traditions of architecture that were omnipresent during the rise of medieval Christianity and Disney’s more recent...
While some scholars are looking at “Montero” through the lens of centuries, others see it continuing a more recent tradition: rock and roll. Steven Fullwood, the co-founder of The Nomadic Archivists Projectand a scholar of Black LGBTQ history, says that the intense blowback to the video from Christian and other traditional establishments reminds hi...
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- Andrew R. Chow
Mar 29, 2021 · The “Montero” music video, with its decadent queer eroticism, spurred an initial homophobic backlash as conservative viewers chided Lil Nas X for supposedly corrupting children. But if...
- Aja Romano
Mar 26, 2021 · (Sub)Culture. We Asked Satanists What They Think of the New Lil Nas X Video. In his new video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," the rapper twerks on Lucifer before stealing his...
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- Ej Dickson
The "camp", tongue-in-cheek, sexually-charged music video for the song depicts Lil Nas X in a number of ironic yet thought-provoking Christian-inspired scenes, including the artist riding a stripper pole to Hell, and even giving a lap dance to Satan. The song and video were praised by some liberal commentators, among others, for their boldly ...
Apr 9, 2021 · Published: April 9, 2021 8:18am EDT. Musician Lil Nas X’s video for his new single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” is a defiant expression of queer sexuality. Filled with Christian...
