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LONG LIVE MONTERO
American rapper and singer Lil Nas X is heading out on his first ever tour, dubbed the Long Live Montero tour! The 'Industry Baby' star is set to kick things off in Detroit before trekking across North America where he'll wrap things up in San Francisco other a month later. Expect to hear tracks off his chart-topping album, including 'That's What I Want', 'Industry Baby' and the internet-breaking hit 'Montero (Call Me By Your Name)'.
Montero Lamar Hill (Lil Nas X) quickly rose to fame with his country rap single 'Old Town Road'. The single spent 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the longest-running number-one single in the charts in over five decades. His debut studio album, Montero, was nominated for Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The 62nd Grammy Awards saw Lil Nas X as the most nominated male artists, where he won Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
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Performance date: 20 September 2022
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When arriving at a show on the “Long Live Montero Tour” (grab tickets to remaining dates here), you’re first greeted by venue security handing you a Playbill. It’s a jarring experience — particularly, as was the case at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on September 20th, when a local radio DJ is warming up the audience by blasting songs you might have attempted to grind to at a homecoming dance. But this Playbill actually sets the scene well: It has a photo of Lil Nas X on the front, adorned with butterfly wings and all.
“I hate writing stuff that isn’t music but my people are forcing me at gunpoint to write this welcome note,” reads the first page in a hand-scribbled passage from the rapper, who certainly isn’t known for doing things in earnest. “This play is about my journey, what I’ve been through, me being out of breath while performing and my aspirations to continue on my path in life.”
Notice the use of the word “play.” Especially with glimpses of that Playbill yellow around you, the “Long Live Montero Tour” feels something like a Broadway production. And when the curtains finally open on Lil Nas X — a.k.a. Montero Lamar Hill himself — you can tell right away that he feels right at home.
The show is split into three “Acts,” which appear to respectively encapsulate Lil Nas X’s reclusive youth, the process of finding himself, and, finally embracing who he has become now at 23. He opens with the 2019 track “Panini,” which gets its name from the overly sentimental character on the late-aughts Cartoon Network series Chowder. Even amid Lil Nas X’s crew of raunchy, voguing backup dancers, it feels like a subtle nod to his childhood that becomes more heartbreaking as the setlist proceeds to “Sun Goes Down.”
For the melancholy ballad, the set design transforms into a childhood bedroom as Lil Nas X sings of feeling outcast: “I wanna run away/ Don’t wanna lie, I don’t want a life,” he sings, as he recalls memories of stanning Nicki Minaj and creating memes as an escape. After the set goes dark again, a screen rolls down showing projections of phone and computer screens.