Lil Nas X and the New Era of Religious Symbolism in Music

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Ruqaiya Haris unpacks the controversy around blasphemy and religion-inspired pop music

“I am a God/ Even though I’m a man of God. Blasphemous connotations are at times reconciled through his characterisation as ‘eccentric’ by the press, amid his struggles with bipolar disorder.

A Greek inscription on the Tree of Knowledge appears, translated to read “after the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other halftaken from Plato’s Symposium. It alludes to the Greek mythological creation story whereby humans were initially two conjoined bodies, then separated and left longing for their other half. It is a clear reference to early ideas about normative queerness that divest from Abrahamic religious rulings on homosexuality, and an exploration of self-acceptance.

Patriarchal family structures are visited again, with Lil Nas X discovering his lover has a woman and child waiting for him at home, and subsequently falling into despair. While gay marriage is still inaccessible to many across the world, the video ends with him walking alone down the aisle of a church in a white bridal dress, to a cheering congregation, where Billy Porter stands in place of a priest and hands him a black electric guitar.

 

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Way to publish Ruqaiya, a person that refers to white people as 'gammons' and refers to non-Muslims as 'kuffs'. 🙄

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