The video also includes a lengthy homage to the gay love story Brokeback Mountain, in particular the now-infamous "tent scene," providing a nod to Lil Nas' cowboy past with "Old Town Road".Īn unapologetically queer and raunchy sensibility has become a key part of Nas' whole deal as an artist every time there is pushback from conservative voices against the more "provocative" elements of his music, the more strongly he seems to embrace and express his identity as an openly gay Black man. It can also be argued that he is promoting safer sex a condom is featured heavily in one shot. The video can easily be interpreted as a statement about the homophobia in sports which keeps so many gay athletes closeted. While "Call Me By Your Name (Montero)" saw the musician pole-dancing all the way down to Hell to seduce the devil, and "Industry Baby" had him dancing naked in a prison shower, "That's What I Want" depicts Nas as a gay football player having sex with one of his teammates in the locker room after a game-and this isn't a subtle allusion where the camera pans away. If Lil Nas X can kick his s in peace so should DaBaby, TI wrote in DaBaby’s Twitter comments.
After all, the music video for the most recent single from the album, "That's What I Want," was arguably his most sexually provocative yet. Rapper Lil Nas X, who is gay, was initially roped into the conversation by rapper TI.
It's the kind of break-the-internet booty shot that we might not have been expecting from Lil Nas, but which is not exactly a surprise, either.
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He took to Twitter and Instagram on Saturday evening to ask his followers if they've streamed the album yet, and marked the occasion by sharing a nude photo of himself, looking coyly over this shoulder at the camera with his butt on full display. Lil Nas X released his first full album, Montero, on Friday, following a highly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek publicity campaign which saw the young artist repeatedly don a prosthetic pregnancy belly ahead of the album's "birth." And while Montero has only been out in the world for a matter of days, it looks like Lil Nas has already bounced back to his pre-baby body.