Lil Nas Xis getting vulnerable about his upbringing.
On Friday, the Grammy-winning artist, 22, released the music video for his latest single “Sun Goes Down.” The musician co-directed the deeply personal video, which sees the star revisit some of the struggles as a teenager while he was coming to terms with his sexuality.
“Since ten, I’ve been feelin' lonely / Had friends but they was pickin' on me,” he sings. “These gay thoughts would always haunt me / I prayed God would take it from me.”
“It’s hard for you when you’re fightin' / And nobody knows it when you’re silent,” he adds.
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“I know that you want to cry / But it’s much more to life than dying / Over your past mistakes / And people who threw dirt on your name,” the artist sings.
Afterwards, Lil Nas X walks alongside his younger self back to prom, where the teenager gets on the dance floor with a smile on his face.
On Friday, Lil Nas X shared that the release was near and dear to his heart.
“Sun goes down out now,” hewroteon Twitter. “This song is very important to me. Hope you guys love it”
In addition to getting plenty of praise from his fans for the meaningful track, the musician also got a shout out from Taco Bell, his former place of work, which was included in one early scene from the video.
“Currently on repeat,” their official Twitter accountwrote.
Lil Nas X recently opened up about the new release,telling PEOPLEit’s his “most vulnerable song” to-date.
“I definitely tell about some of my upbringing and it’s also just a really great song,” he said. “And the video goes back to my past, to 2017 Lil Nas X in his prime. Like he was at prom, working at Taco Bell, and what he did in his room, praying his sexuality away. Like all these things that I experienced that I wanted to share with my fans.”
“It’s been such a huge shift, a huge change,” he added of his journey sincecoming out publiclyin 2019. “It’s been a transformation throughout the small three years of my career so far. It’s been fun, it’s been sad, it’s been a lot of things. But that’s life.”
“I feel amazing,” he told PEOPLE of the gig. “I’m going to go out there and just murder it.”
source: people.com
