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But Nas is refusing to serve something palatable he serves his dish and you can take it or leave it.
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It’s all too easy for famous gays to dial down the gayness, to confirm their bachelorhood without flourish, to minimize in order to pass. To the critics, his sexuality is manageable as long as it’s not flaunted, if it simply exists and doesn’t make too much of a fuss. To that end, I can’t help but feel that it’s Nas’s open homosexuality, rather than the serpent motifs, that’s really agitating conservatives. His message for the video was penned as a letter to his younger self, reminding him that “this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist.” And this is the crux of the argument for me. We were told that traditional values were crumbling, that our morals were eroding before our eyes. Nas has been accused of devil worshipping, which, if you just watch the video, isn’t completely off point. The governor of South Dakota called his shoe drop “outrageous, disgusting, and perverted,” right-wing pastors criticized the “wicked nonsense,” and Fox News happily weighed in, accusing Nas of mainstreaming Satanism.
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With his take on original sin and hyper-sexualized storytelling, he’s not alluding to millennia-old icons of depravity, so much as embodying them. It’s certainly a spicy video, difficult to categorize as quiet or subtle. This week Lil Nas X, in his new video for “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” pole danced into hades and tore the internet a new click hole. It appears the Old Town Road of his previous hit was actually a highway to hell. You’d think seeing Nas have a serpent lick his crotch in the Garden of Eden was the epitome of debauchery (even typing that feels like a lot), but the video ends with him being stoned to death with a butt plug and lap dancing the devil before claiming his horns.