Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The devil lapdance Lil Nas X Montero has in it is incredible, controversial, and iconic. But is it really the devil? Or is this video more than meets the eye?



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Original music video: youtube.com/watch?v=6swmTBVI83k&ab_channel=LilNasXVEVO


Sources:

theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/30/lil-nas-x-montero-call-me-by-your-name-twitter
theoi.com/Text/HomericHymns1.html#2
Hesiod, Theogony 306 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0174%3Atext%3DSym.%3Apage%3D191
Shapiro, H. A. “‘Hȇrȏs Theos’: The Death and Apotheosis of Herakles.” The Classical World, vol. 77, no. 1, 1983, pp. 7–18. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/4349488
theoi.com/Kosmos/Tartaros2.html