The pair performed together on her most recent tour and she offered some words of encouragement to Lil Nas (and gave him her fan.) For fans of both artists, this has all been a thorough reminder of the various intersections at play in the entertainment industry, which boundaries have been pushed, and which barriers still need to be smashed down. Lil Nas X just broke the BET Awards with gay kiss, Michael Jackson cover and LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 27: Lil Nas X attends the BET Awards 2021 at. The chances are that Lil Nas will laugh this off or make a fun Spongebob meme out of it. But come on, her MTV kisses with Britney and Christina really aren’t comparable to Lil Nas X’s performance. Her private life is her business and I’m not interested in dragging her over that. She’s always been coy about her own sexuality, although she has exclusively had public relationships with men. There is a reason she is a gay icon and she definitely put in the work over the years. Madonna has played around with ideas of sexuality and gender fluidity for decades, from ‘Express Yourself’ to the Erotica album to THAT MTV performance. It seems ignorant to the obvious imbalances at play here. It seems, at best, tone-deaf to compare a moment of (admittedly effective) provocation built on queer-baiting to a gay Black man expressing his sexuality through his work. Picture: Getty The performance stayed true to the saucy viral music video that has amassed over 270 million views at. Still, I have to admit that I was disappointed by this moment of smarm. Lil Nas X gives an electric performance of 'Montero (Call Me By Your Name)'). Jeez, even by Madonna’s standards, this is staggeringly self-aggrandizing. " #DidItFirst" /21thPlirCs- Pop Crave June 30, 2021 Madonna reacts to Lil Nas X's #BETAwards kiss: You’d think that Madonna would see what Lil Nas X is doing and be proud or want to publicly congratulate him.
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In many ways, it’s a damning indictment of society and the industry that Lil Nas is still being ragged on for all the same stuff that Madonna, ’80s rock music, Prince, punk, Grace Jones, and rap groups like 2 Live Crew were derided. ‘Madonna did it’ is to music as ‘ The Simpsons did it’ is to TV.
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It’s no wonder that many have seen Lil Nas as a sort of descendent of Madonna, the true shock artist of modern American pop. A post shared by Lil Nas X Nas X follows in a long and proud tradition of musical provocateurs, talented individuals who are as good at playing the media like a fiddle as they are at crafting absolute bops.