South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem had a typical full moral panic, complaining, “Our kids are being told that this kind of product is, not only okay, it’s ‘exclusive.’ But do you know what’s more exclusive? Their God-given eternal soul.” Rapper and singer Joyner Lucas couched the same critique in somewhat less incendiary language, complaining that kids love Lil Nas X’s earlier single “Old Town Road” and that many of them would have watched “Montero” with its “left field ish” before they were aware what they were getting into. They’re latest bad-for-children warning has been applied to Lil Nas X’s video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” which features the queer singer and rapper being tempted into a slippery kiss with a male snake in the garden of Eden and then having anal sex with Satan himself.
“Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” Lil Nas XĬonservative Christians are constantly telling us what is bad for children.
