First, the entire point as mentioned above is it's a song about a gay guy who wants a relationship with another guy who is too afraid to come out as gay publicly. The lyrics themselves are about how they can hangout and do drugs, but not a sexual relationship. It is absolutely unrequited love. I will add on that for the music video, the video was trying to emulate the sexual female pop singers as a way to openly show his sexuality, while the biblical references are him being seduced into homosexuality in Eden, damned to Hell for it, and becoming one with the homosexuality by murdering Satan at the end.
Secondly, I wanted to compare coverage of the two channels.
Tom MacDonald: 2.01M subscribers [
YouTube], 99.6K followers [
Twitter]
Lil Nas X: 12M subscribers [
YouTube], 5.7M followers [
Twitter]
While not all of these are unique, you can see Lil Nas has 6x the amount of YouTube subscribers and roughly 58x the amount of Twitter followers, meaning Lil Nas has way more internet presence than Tom MacDonald.
Third, I wanted to check their channels for music and what they do. Right now Lil Nas X has the
MONTERO single as his featured video which makes sense, as that was just released on Friday. However, Tom MacDonald's channel has
No Lives Matter as his featured video, even though
Church just released on Friday.
Lastly, the news articles I'm getting regarding the single are talking about either how well done the video is, how bold it is to come out/be queer, or responding to people who only see the music video as devil worship and nothing else.