This, in my book, is real moniker management. The layered pun of literally following Montero with 'Call Me By Your Name' in the title of his new CD is, for me, cheeky genius - teased by Lil Nas's red-carpet run in three regal costumes at this year's post-pandemic Met Gala that just trounced the designer gym-suited Timothee Chalamet in the masculinity department. But I think Lil Nas X gets far too little credit for that stinging, if gentle, sense of humor and that penetrating, if cooing, high baritone. Nor am I impervious to the now-22-year-old's barely pixilated nudity and borderline louche dance moves. I was not, prior to Montero, indifferent to the pillow-lipped pulchritude of the one-time manager of Nicki Minaj's Twitter fan account.
I'm here to tell you: Lil Nas nails 'Little Lamb.' My personal method of conducting the Legge test is seeing whether I can hear the exact sound of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' as sung by the vocalist under question.
