American singer Lil Nas X, always quick to respond with humor to his detractors, lived up to his reputation. While in Boston on Sunday for a concert as part of his world tour, he decided to offer pizza to a religious group protesting outside his concert.
After bursting onto the rap scene in 2019, Lil Nas X quickly became the terror of American conservatives: openly gay, willingly provocative, the performer of old town road he regularly draws the ire of traditionalists. So it’s no surprise that on Sunday night, fans lining up at MGM Music Hall for his show saw a small group holding signs praising “Jesus” and “God” and encouraging repentance.
Several videos were posted on Twitter and Lil Nas X shared one on his official account: “I just told my team to bring you pizzas, it’s really a great promo!” he joked.
unexpected love at first sight
Hours later, the artist posted a video of his team delivering the pizzas to the protesters, who rejected them. And he continued sarcastically: “I accidentally fell in love with one of the homophobic protesters,” he wrote in the caption of these images that end with a slow-motion close-up of the young man in question, over the music of Sufjan Stevens. mystery of love.
Lil Nas X added the next day, “Can’t stop thinking about the homophobic hunk who protested my concert last night,” he posted on Twitter. “I’m sure we had a connection. I miss him so much. I’m nothing without him.”
If it is with humor that Lil Nas X has chosen to react on Sunday, he sometimes takes a more serious tone to respond to his detractors. With phenomenal success (three US number 1 hits, the all-time record for most consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, the approval of the biggest and a duet with Elton John), the singer imposes herself as an inverted defender of sexual minorities.
When he unleashed the fury of American conservatives with huntsmana clip in which he came down from the Garden of Eden to lewdly dance on the thighs of the devil, the rapper had sent them an unequivocal message:
“I spent my entire adolescence hating myself for the bullshit you preach (…) So I hope you are angry, that you continue to be angry and that you feel the same anger that you are teaching us to feel with ourselves.”
Source: BFM TV
