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Lil Nas Xhas made waves once again, this time with a kiss during his BET Awards performance that has been met with mixed reactions.
“I feel like it’s what needed to be done,” Lil Nas X (né Montero Hill) says.“Because it’s easy to just hug a guy, but I feel like if you kiss the guy, you get straight to the point. I really sugarcoat the performance, and it gets the job done.”
He chose the same dancer who licked his neck in another racy performance of the chart-topping single for his recentSaturday Night Livedebut. “I was like, ‘Hey, what if we kissed in this one?'” he explains. “He was like, ‘Yeah, sure.'”
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Lil Nas X has sincehit back at the social media backlashfrom the usual critics who’ve taken issue with him expressing his sexuality. Meanwhile, many have pointed out the double standard ofMadonna’s kisswith Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera (three straight women) at the 2003 VMAs not getting nearly the same scrutiny.
The “Sun Goes Down” artist has otherwise been met with overwhelming support from his devoted fans, as well as from his family. “My family had no idea it was about to happen, but they loved it,” he admits.
“I think one of my sisters, I forgot exactly what she said,” Lil Nas X recalls. “She was like, ‘Wow, you absolutely murdered that.’ She was like, ‘The best performance of the night, not just saying that.'”
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He recentlyopened up to PEOPLEabout how his career has evolved since hecame out publiclyon June 30, 2019, the last day of Pride Month. “It’s been such a huge shift, a huge change,” he said. “It’s been a transformation throughout the small three years of my career so far. It’s been fun, it’s been sad, it’s been a lot of things. But that’s life.”
Lil Nas X has been hard at work on his long-overdue debut studio albumMontero, which is expected to be released this summer.
source: people.com
