With “Old Town Road” now the longest-running No. 1 song ever, Lil Nas X’s Extremely Online coming-out is even more meaningful.
The ambiguity of the rapper’s word choice seemed to have been intentional. In alater that day, he wrote, “deadass thought i made it obvious” with an attachment of his EP’s cover art depicting a building broadcasting the colors of the pride flag.
In his joking and Extremely Online way, Lil Nas X is challenging what it means to come out on the public stage — especially now, when fans feel their proximity to their favorite stars’ public lives must equal an all-access pass to their personal lives as well.
Coming-out narratives have changed since the days when stars like Ellen DeGeneres and Lance Bass boldly and definitively announced their sexual orientations in the late ’90s and mid-’00s. The messaging then was clear-cut: “Yep, I’m gay,” DeGeneres’s 1997 Time cover read in big red lettering with the star squatting and flashing a big smile. In the two decades since that unprecedented event, the coming-out game has evolved with the rise of social media.
came out as queer on Twitter because of fans’ relentless curiosity surrounding her sexuality. Prior to that,proclaimed her bisexuality in a video on Snapchat, signaling that this trend of coming out online was definitely here to stay.
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