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Forgiveness, reinvention and finding home are recurring themes: “I’ve done things in my past I’m sorry for, so please don’t hold me/ Old people in my life should know that I am not the old me,” he sings on “Don’t Want It.” What’s the next big hit?Īs a former member of a stan army, Lil Nas is native to a culture that cares fiercely about numbers-a culture in which inherent value can be derived from streams, views and topping the charts, as if music were a sporting event. In other parts of the album, he sings about waking up on the floor on top of a deflated air mattress of being self-conscious about the size of his lips. “2018 I was in my sister’s house all summer, songs wasn’t doing numbers, whole life was going under,” he sings on “Dead Right Now.” In that song, he sings that he would have committed suicide if he hadn’t made it and grapples with his mother’s addictions: “Told me she’d be clean, but I’m knowin’ that her ass is a deceiver.” While “Old Town Road” was a Western fantasy, the lyrics on Montero hit much closer to home, and reveal parts of Lil Nas’ troubled pre-fame past that he has sometimes been reticent to talk about in public. (More on her later.) The lyrics are hugely autobiographical Meanwhile, Lil Nas has also improved as a rapper: he crisply delivers a rapid-fire, DaBaby-esque flow on “Dollar Sign Slime,” nearly matching Megan Thee Stallion bar for bar over the song’s triumphant fanfare. Lessons with Kuk Harrell-the vocal producer who has worked with Beyoncé, Rihanna and Celine Dion-have molded Lil Nas into a powerful and malleable singer, especially on the despondent ballad “Void” (admittedly, he gets a little help from autotune). Lil Nas has also prioritized improving his voice, which was at times shaky and cautious on his latest release 7 EP. The album is buoyed by some of the most successful producers working in the pop/rap space: Take a Daytrip (Dua Lipa’s “Good In Bed”), Nick Mira (Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams”), Carter Lang (Swae Lee & Post Malone’s “Sunflower”). Instead, the artist operates near the center of pop music as we know it in 2021: big melodies encased in big hip-hop beats, slippery guitars, sentimental ballads, plenty of homages to ’80s and ’90s rock music. While Lil Nas X is often categorized as a rapper, outright rapping makes up a small minority of Montero it’s clearly not Lil Nas’ mission to match the lyrical prowess of his namesake.
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Read More: Historians Decode the Religious Symbolism and Queer Iconography of Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Video Montero is far from a rap album Here are the main takeaways from the album. The album shows him reflecting on his troubled familial past, slipping into different musical styles and teaming up with some very famous friends, including Megan Thee Stallion and Elton John. Montero contains both of those songs as well as 13 others, many of which have been floating around the internet for months (with Lil Nas often posting snippets of them himself).