#Lil Nas X Shares Wild Video for New Song “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”: Watch

Lil Nas X has released his first new song of 2021, “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” and it arrives with a wild new music video. It shows Eve making out with the snake, a pole dancer seducing the devil, and a prisoner shackled by people in Regency-era wigs. Nearly everyone described just there is portrayed in the visual by Lil Nas X. Watch the Lil Nas X and Tanu Muino-directed video, and check out the single’s artwork, below. 

The song was produced by Take a DayTrip, Omer Fedi and Roy Enzo. Lil Nas X shared the below statement about the video addressed to himself at age 14.

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 fuck out of other people’s lives and stop dictating who they should be. Sending you love from the future.

It’s his first single since last year’s “HOLIDAY.” Lil Nas X has stated his debut album will be released this year. “I think people should know that 2021 is going to be one hell of a year for me,” he told Complex late last year. “Not just musically, but in every way.” At the beginning of 2021, his hit song “Old Town Road” went Platinum for the 14th time, breaking an RIAA record.

Read about Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” in Pitchfork’s feature “Country Music Is Changing, in Spite of Itself.”