“Even though he’s the one who got married,” I echoed. “Even though he’s the one who got married?” He’s always read me extremely well, and I have a feeling that he suspects that if I never write it’s not because I don’t care but because a part of me still does and always will, just as I know he still cares, which is why he too never writes. “We haven’t spoken in ages, and I don’t know that we’re friends, though I’m sure we will always be. “After a series of bad imitations and descriptions, he was finally able to figure out what I was talking about: ‘Old Town Road.I wasn’t sure I wanted him to ask, yet I loved being asked. I wanted to download it on Spotify,” he says. “I called to ask him about this song that I kept hearing at the gym. His liking for Lil Nas X seemingly predated the new track, though, as he adds that his first introduction to the rapper was the record-breaking hit “Old Town Road”, which he discovered via his son. “If Call Me By Your Name had even the slightest influence on Lil Nas X's music, then that's beyond anything I could have ever imagined or hoped for,” he says.
However, fans have celebrated its unapologetic representation of queer sexuality and the wild fantasy world that the rapper inhabits.Īmong those fans, apparently, is André Aciman, the author behind Call Me By Your Name, who calls Lil Nas X’s nod to the bestselling novel in the track’s title “gratifying” and “humbling” in an interview with them.
Arriving alongside a video that sees him descend into Hell on a stripper pole and give Satan a lap dance, the track provoked mass outrage among right-wing commentators (probably not helped by the subsequent announcement that he’s sold 666 pairs of “ Satan shoes” filled with human blood). On Friday, Lil Nas X released his latest, long-awaited single, “ Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”.
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