Lil Nas X takes another insightful look back at his life as he shares a video for a new autobiographical song, 'SUN GOES DOWN'. Lil Nas X is still riding high in the charts with his last, letter to self track, 'MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)', but has chosen to release yet another reflective song that gives us a further look back into the early life of the hugely popular star.
On his previous video Lil Nas X started with an opening commentary by way of explanation as he narrated, "In life, we hide the parts of ourselves we don't want the world to see. We lock them away, we tell them ‘no’, we banish them. But here, we don't. Welcome to Montero." At the same time that he premiered the video he also published a letter to his 14 year old self, saying, "Dear 14-year-old Montero, I wrote a song with our name in it. It's about a guy I met last summer. I know we promised to never come out publicly, I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist. You see this is very scary for me, people will be angry, they will say I’m pushing an agenda. But the truth is, I am. The agenda to make people stay the f**k out of other people's lives and stop dictating who they should be. Sending you love from the future. – LNX."
On his latest video Lil Nas X is channeling is inner Samantha Morton in 'Minority Report' as he summons up cognitive images from his life. From working at Taco Bell, and wanting to run away, Lil Nas X sings to his younger self, "I know that you want to cry, But it’s much more to life than dying, Over your past mistakes, And people who threw dirt on your name. Since ten, I been feeling lonely, Had friends but they was picking on me, Always thinking why my lips so big? Was I too dark? Can they sense my fears?"
Nas's new song is his most tender to date. There are no theatrics like those he brought to the fore on his huge 2020 Christmas hit, 'Holiday', just Nas exposed and emotional. From praying in his bedroom to texting about Nicki Minaj in high school and his eventual relief, "That I made that jump, that leap of faith", Lil Nas X sings as a catharsis to his youth.
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