Lil Nas Xsealed his BET Awards performance with a kiss!
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“I guess it’s because I kind of grew up on the internet and I’ve been through this before, and I know to take everything with a grain of salt,” Lil Nas X (born Montero Hill) says of the online hate that followed the video’s release. “So it’s rare that it’ll actually get to me, where I’m like, ‘Oh, that hurts.'”
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Fans have praised the video for offering a spot-on visual metaphor for the coming-out experience. “I was happy that a lot of people seeing this growing up are going to remember it for the rest of their lives and they’re going to feel more confident in themselves,” he says.
He’s come a long way since the all-too-relatable woes of coming to terms with his sexuality. “It’s been such a huge shift, a huge change,” the artist says of his journey since his announcement on June 30, 2019, the last day of Pride Month. “It’s been a transformation throughout the small three years of my career so far. It’s been fun, it’s been sad, it’s been a lot of things. But that’s life.”
source: people.com
