Lil Nas X, still Very Online, stays unbothered by conservative outrage

Lil Nas X is handling the conservative backlash to his latest music video by leaning into it. 

The artist and professional troll enraged the right with his new music video "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," a queer retelling humanity's banishment from the Garden of Eden. 

In this version, abundant with references to Greek mythology and biblical symbolism, Lil Nas X has an illicit affair with a demonic serpentine creature, is judged before a denim-clad angelic council, and then accepts his fate by descending into Hell via pole dance. There, he gives the king of the dead of steamy lap dance before snapping the devil's neck and claiming the throne for himself. Read more...

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