Pop star LilNasX pulls off performance art in Austin debut at ACLFest.
Montero Lamar Hill took us on the journey of how he became Lil Nas X onstage Saturday evening, and straight into the future.
The 23-year-old Georgia native was born in 1999 at the cusp of the millennium, and the outspoken gay pop star’s set was an ode to progress.
This was only the first in a series of dramatic introductory sequences set like a Shakespearean play, with a futuristic voiceover from a bodiless face onscreen to set the tone: “The greatest thing a human can be is to create themselves, to be themselves.” Nas X promptly came onstage in a gold metallic outfit early Madonna would’ve worn as a gladiator, grabbing his crotch Michael-Jackson-style to “Panini,” off his 2019 debut EP.
When he invited crowd members to twerk onstage, an elementary-school-aged boy bounced around to an enraptured audience. The entire performance was set up like a stage play, with voiceover interludes defining each act, one segment spoofing the bible’s condemnation of homosexuality, and a total of six – count them,– outfit changes.
For him, everything is a performance, an effort to both act out life itself and to be larger than. Already a tall man at over six feet, Nas X tellingly rocks a nearly-6-inch faux-hawk’d Afro – elevating the concert experience the way a museum exhibition can become performance art. That is to say, the star creates his own myth and adds to it everything a gleeful audience requires: eye candy, twerking, and leather chaps.
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