I can't believe this music video got this much controversy and still gets criticized to this day, Like.. yeah, the guy is gay, Let him express his sexuality, Who cares lol
And that's really unfortunate because Lil Nas X gotta to be one of the most creative celebrities we've ever got in the past couple of years, Like, Even if you don't like the guy, At least appreciate how much effort and work he puts into his music videos, because wow.. This video is fantastic, Everything from the great cinematography, to the amazing set and costume design, The very fun and crazy storyline (Evan tho It's basically just a recreation of The Shawshank Redemption's story but hey).
My favorite bits from this video are Nas dancing and rapping while holding the weights in the playground, Jack Harlow rapping while getting executed in the electric chair, and of course, how can we forget, the now infamous shower room dancing scene, It's all so cool and funny and well done, I just love everything about this music video.. and thankfully we got a great track to accompany it!
Industry Baby is such a great badass catchy song, I think everyone have heard it already so I won't talk a lot about it, Nas's vocals here are amazing, His deep loud energetic singing voice with the horns and music in the background is seriously a work of art, The lyrics are pretty good too, Even tho I wish there was a little bit more to it, The lyrics are all about how he's Lil Nas is still in the game, making successful and not just another one hit wonder with Old Town Roads as everyone thought he would be and how everyone is trying to get rid of him, and don't get me wrong, that's great and all, but I just wished the lyrics were more, You know, Unique.. like the music video, but still, that didn't ruin the song for me, Jack Harlow's verse is pretty good too, I think it kinda slows down the song a bit, but still, You don't want the whole song to be loud and in-your-facd all the way you know, I just think that his verse could have literally worked in anything and didn't really feel like it was connected with the rest of the song, I don't know man, I'm just nitpicking at this point, He was pretty good overall.
So yeah, this song and music video over all were pretty great, I can somewhat understand why people got so worked up because of this music video, You know, for being kinda explicit, but still that's not a reason to write the whole song off just because it has some "inappropriate" scenes, and if you don't like the music video this much, Just listen to the audio only version, because believe me, Industry Baby is not a song you want to skip!
8/10.
