And I know that’s going to take me being more open and bringing it out of myself no matter how much it hurts or feels uncomfortable to say things that I need to say.” But any such ambivalence doesn’t explicitly manifest in the songs here, as Lil Nas X roams his interior spaces as openly as he does assorted styles-which span everything from emo and grunge to indie pop and pop punk. “I feel like with this album, I know what I wanted,” he tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. The Georgia-born singer-rapper responded in kind with a remix and remixes to that remix that rocketed him up the charts and simultaneously highlighted the fickleness of the entire endeavour-did Billy Ray Cyrus suddenly prove his country bona fides any more than the addition of Young Thug proved his trap ones or Diplo his electronic? But that’s the magic of Lil Nas X and of his debut album MONTERO: He knows that pop music is whatever the artist creating it wants it to be, an exercise of vulnerable imagination packaged as unyielding, larger-than-life confidence. His breakthrough single, “ Old Town Road”, forced the industry to revisit old conversations about the limitations of genre, race and who is kept out (or locked in) by the definitions we use to talk about music. Lil Nas X is nothing if not a testament to the power of being true to yourself.
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