The “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” music video features a CGI fantasy world and begins with the singer in an imaginary Garden of Eden. “so i hope u are mad, stay mad, feel the same anger you teach us to have towards ourselves.” “i spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the sh*t y’all preached would happen to me because i was gay,” he wrote.
Facing a slew of negative comments, Lil Nas X shut down “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” critics in a Saturday, March 27 tweet, telling conservative commentators that were angry at him for embracing his sexuality to “stay mad.” He went on to explain how religion and being gay impacted his teen years and made it clear no one was going to shame him now.
While the music video quickly began trending on both YouTube and Twitter and was applauded for breaking boundaries for queer artists, not everyone online was thrilled.
