but like seriously do stream hotbox

nicki minaj has gone full fascist anyways. montero is the new queen of cunty music videos ft a pool of pink water.

#lil nas x#video#YEAH i’ve been consistently listening to his drops like. why are these not going viral like his other songs???#i’m vaguely aware of some drama both with the producers that worked on his debut album and with the record label#but hotbox is such a bop :((

idk about the producer stuff, but what really annoys me is that ik a lot of people criticized him for being too focused on creating controversy. and this EP seems like a response in some ways: VERY different style than his previous works (more minimalistic, clear pink/white aesthetic), and while i'm not the best at analyzing music, it feels like he experimented with other styles in this. & lyrically its not only fun and catchy, but he also does open up & i think there's a very distinct voice to days before dreamboy. specifically in DREAMBOY (which was the first of the performance videos he posted altho not the first on the ep) i think abt this opening a lot:

if you havent heard the song, the music is pretty downplayed during this, its focused on his rapping to the listener. & in the video he posted, its him in a life-sized doll box like a barbie, in a suit, smoking a cigarette. and it feels very much like him re-presenting himself to the audience, not denying or apologizing for anything but also showing a more complete version of himself.

genuinely i love the line "i like long black dick and i like long conversations." he hits the "dick" so intensely, and then goes into talking about emotional connection and cuddling with cats. he starts off by this introduction by blatantly, explicitly claiming his sexuality, and then pairing it with the emotional complexity and intimacy and humanity. to me, i hear this and feel like its a confrontation of the intense homophobia he experienced for being blatantly sexual as a gay man, and refusing to apologize for it while also pointing out that he can have sexual desires as a gay man and still be a complex person. him talking about his desires isn't him being a stereotype, its just part of who he is, and he can enjoy (and talk about) both sex and emotional intimacy.

& that also goes along w "controversy king, yeah i love to raise hell to 'em." i really like this sort of confrontation of the allegations of him just being about creating controversy for popularity; he's not apologizing for it, and with the following verses about how people have treated him (specifically in a religious context), it feels like he's pointing out that him creating controversy wasn't just about getting clicks. it was him being something society hates (a gay black man) and being that openly, proudly, inflaming people in a way which highlighted how little tolerance there is for people like him.

& this is also something i think abt when it comes to the music video for HOTBOX; when his head is in the fishbowl, there's horns on the side, which seems like a reference to the montero music video, later in DREAMBOY he references J-Christ, and in RIGHT THERE! he says "this scripture a bible verse / bust it open & make it twerk." i like how he clearly has a new theme, but also made references to his older work to show that he's not repenting for any of the blasphemy. which he shouldn't have to!!!!!!!!!

anyways. not to be Too Deep about lil nas x at 11 am on a tuesday. but i really like days before dreamboy and everyone should go listen to it. its fun sincere well made queer music, the performance videos are also really fun, if you like him when he was fucking w homophobes online, then support his artistic work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was it star trek ii: the wrath of khan (1982)