Kristi Noem suggesting that Lil Nas X was endangering the “God-given eternal soul[s]” of innocent American children. There was Candace Owens (barely recovered, one presumes, from having been scandalized by “WAP”) equating Lil Nas X’s artistic project with sexual assault and the use of crystal meth. And somehow there was Nick Young, former Laker and ex-fiancé of Iggy Azalea, promising that his kids would never play “Old Town Road” again. Lil Nas X’s clever twist on this ignoble tradition is his braiding together America’s anxieties about the devil with America’s anxieties about gay people. Indeed, his parrying critics on Twitter has been nearly as delightful to behold as the “Montero” video itself.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 30, 2021 00:11 UTC