Lil Nas X first teased his song Call Me By Your Name, he has finally blessed us with the finished single and its accompanying video.While queerness has been a thread through all of the rapper’s releases – he hinted at his sexuality before coming out with the lyrics of C7osure and rainbow lights on his album artwork, and every look associated with Old Town Road’s awards season run was an endorsement of the yee-haw agenda – Lil Nas X has never been so unapologetically queer than in the video for Montero (Call Me By Your Name).
He is chained up by captors in candy-coloured Regency wigs. He pole-dances in hell. He kisses a version of himself in a paradise where he doesn’t have to hide his true self.