“Y’all mind if I enter my Christian era?” asked Lil Nas X on Twitter last November. Having lap-danced for Satan in an unforgettable video for his 2021 debut album, Montero, the country singer turned rap-popper now swaps his sexed-up horns for an equally suggestive robe and staff to return as “J Christ”.
The video’s visuals are so eye-bogglingly hallucinogenic that it takes the music a while to catch up. The short film that the 24-year-old star (real name Montero Hill) directed himself is loaded with intense biblical drama with conservative-baiting campness dialled up to 11.
