Be Honest: That Lil Nas X Video and Shoe are 100% Cringe
Neo-Puritans safely explore topics made conventional by other artists for boring art
Maybe it’s because I grew up with Madonna’s videos, Ozzy biting off bat heads, and in my later teen years, South Park, but I just don’t find Lil Nas X’s video “shocking” in any way but cringe. His “controversial” video was panned as being nothing but a frame-by-frame rip-off of FKA Twigs’s “Cellophane” and Nike is already suing over that ugly shoe (as I…