He claimed the Satanic lap dance video was about coming out of the closet – which he did years ago. It was about marketing his name and his controversial music video. But it was never about selling shoes in the first place. Because of this, Nike successfully sued X’s company, and now the “Satan Shoes” will not be produced. His “Satan Shoes” ripped-off another bit of trash culture, “Jesus Shoes” (they allegedly contain a drop of water from the River Jordan) – including the Nike logo. So far this is just trash culture for trash people but Nas X was playing another angle.
Look out, you might cut yourself on the edginess! The overpriced, limited edition “Satan Shoes”, which feature “Satanic” imagery, and allegedly contained a drop of human blood. The scheme started with Nas X’s shoes, which are controversy embodied. The only thing shocking about this is how well Nas X’s viral marketing worked. That shtick’s been old-hat since the Boomers rocked out to it in the 1960s. Tell me: why exactly is your music video – the one where you give the Devil a lap dance – so incredibly newsworthy? It’s not like Satanic imagery is something new. It’s no accident that LGBTQ+ celebrities decide to come out or drop controversial content in spring… looking at you, Lil Nas X, you fabulous little consumerist bastard, you. Pride Month is tiring, nauseating, and depressing. Let’s start out with something flamboyant and attention getting: The community will fight me over the title of this article, but it’s not intended as an insult bear with me, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover. Even if this subject matter doesn’t seem to interest my regular audience, I believe you might just get something out of it.
It should go without saying (but just in case some of the light-switch brains are reading this) we don’t agree upon everything but one thing we do agree upon is that we don’t like our corporate overlords, and we want to see more organic communities and small businesses out there. Note : this is a guest post by a good friend of mine, Jules Vasquez, a non-binary member of the LGBTQ community.