I am not scared of death and I fear no man. The fact that I have God and know that He loves me and that I can love Him back is empowering and illuminating.
However, I’m a Christian and God is not a story to me. One last thought: Lil Nas X being the only character featured in the video EXCEPT the devil is powerful in itself.įirst of all, you can say God isn’t real. The thought he put into it and the creative freedoms he took rewriting some of the most famous texts in history…I stan. This honestly might be one of his greatest videos to date. He seduces the devil and then snaps his neck like a twig before claiming his rightful place on the throne. We know that Lil Nas is a fan of using humor to cope, so this lap dance could be a way of humorously reclaiming his narrative and owning his truth. I think there’s a lot that he could be saying here: Not only is he fully trolling those who have undoubtedly told him he’s “going to hell” for his sexuality, but it could also be a nod to his confession earlier this year that he was at one point suicidal - i.e., dancing with death. At this point, I think we know what Lil Nas X is trying to say about the homophobic slurs and prejudice he’s experienced as a gay Black man in the music industry (and life).īut the cherry on top of the cake in this whole music video is when Lil Nas literally “dances with the devil” in the form of a sexy little lap dance. *Enter the devil*, who is sitting atop his throne surrounded by more Greek words that translate as, “They condemn what they do not understand.” JUST as he is about to ascend to heaven, the biggest stripper pole I’ve ever seen shoots up in front of him and drags him straight to hell. The writing on the tree was pulled from Plato’s Symposium, which, for those who don’t know (me), is a philosophical text about some men gathering at a banquet in honor of the god of love and desire. Lil Nas then gets seduced by the snake-human thing and is taken to a coliseum to be executed - the first of many nods to Greek and Roman mythology.
In his world, he is free to live unapologetically as himself. “Montero,” aka a reimagined Garden of Eden, is also Lil Nas X’s real name. “We lock them away, we tell them, ‘No,’ we banish them. “In life, we hide the parts of ourselves we don’t want the world to see,” says Lil Nas’ voiceover in the opening shot.
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