![]() The “Old Town Road” performer’s first full-length show ever was specifically delivered with his intended audience in mind, the “ladies and gentleman, and nonbinaries, and bottoms,” whom he addresses in an open letter in the Playbill-style program, given out at the beginning of the show. There was the wristography, the queer sensuality, the embodiment of gender fluidity, that full-on voguing number set to Beyoncé’s “Pure/Honey.” Nas fed that crowd an entire Thanksgiving dinner. The “Long Live Montero” show started gay and ended gayer it was a flashy, all-frills act of queer defiance and self-love, where fantasy and reality collided during quite possibly the gayest concert I’ve ever seen.Īnd it was also very, very good. I sometimes questioned the authenticity of his vocals - was that his real voice? The backing track? Did it matter? Was it simply enough to witness a Black queer man live his best gay life on stage, no fucks given? ![]() It didn’t take me long to stop caring if Lil Nas X’s show at Detroit’s Fox Theatre on Tuesday, the first show of his first tour, was going to be any good.
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