Discussion about Lil Nas X's performance of "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" at the BET awards, which culminated in a gay kiss, is ongoing.
After several people compared it to the Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears kiss that took place at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna herself weighed in on the moment.
Madonna reacts to Lil Nas X's #BETAwards kiss:\n\n"#DidItFirst"pic.twitter.com/21thPlirCs— Pop Crave (@Pop Crave) 1625022399
People initially did not react kindly to Madonna's response.
it's giving https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1410072261902671874\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/ps515udKZ3— #WinstonSmithWasAssassinated (@#WinstonSmithWasAssassinated) 1625074271
Ahh yes madonnna the black queer representation we\u2019ve always had https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1410072261902671874\u00a0\u2026— Killer King \ud83e\ude91 (@Killer King \ud83e\ude91) 1625060439
She\u2019s so annoying dhdjdjdhttps://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1410072261902671874\u00a0\u2026— \ud638\ud638\ud638 (@\ud638\ud638\ud638) 1625057909
How bout you go give some of those Vogue royalties to a house or something and go lay downhttps://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1410072261902671874\u00a0\u2026— not LGBT, S-I-N (@not LGBT, S-I-N) 1625056813
But Nas wasn't having it.
Replying to the PopCrave tweet, he simply said:
"Me and madonna are friends. It's just a joke."
I love the way you handled this @LilNasX. Let's do more celebrating of each other rather trying to find things wrong immediately, y'all. Use the noggin and your reasoning skills. Otherwise you end up alienating the very people who made progress for all of us.https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1410234883906031620\u00a0\u2026— Scottie Campbell (@Scottie Campbell) 1625148110
Okay good because I was gonna be on her https://twitter.com/lilnasx/status/1410234883906031620\u00a0\u2026— \ud83c\udf1d (@\ud83c\udf1d) 1625147136
MY SISTER IS IN THE CLEARhttps://twitter.com/lilnasx/status/1410234883906031620\u00a0\u2026— aidan\ud83d\udc00 (@aidan\ud83d\udc00) 1625100053
he's winning and he's the momenthttps://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1410234883906031620\u00a0\u2026— Gabo (@Gabo) 1625090179
Madonna has received a fair bit of negative press over the last year, after a now-deleted post where she delivered a speech about how the virus and ongoing pandemic were the "great equalizer," shared from her Soho, UK apartment in a rose petal-filled tub.
So did your friend call you and tell you to post that because icon or not It was a seriously bad jokepic.twitter.com/rzPudbVSdI— will (@will) 1625063109
Nobody needs madonna.— myr.wrld (@myr.wrld) 1625065607
Very classy of you but @Madonna should\u2019ve simply congratulated you & left it at that. \n\nThis was YOUR triumph. Not hers, & not the moment for her to grab the spotlight. \n\nIrony: HAD she done the right thing & simply acknowledged you, SHE\u2019D also have been applauded & acknowledged.— Maryscott O'Connor (@Maryscott O'Connor) 1625065265
You need to have a talk with your \u201cfriend\u201d.— ConglomeNERD (@ConglomeNERD) 1625061273
well ur friend doesn\u2019t make funny jokes— venus \ud83e\ude90\ud83d\udc96\u2600\ufe0f\u2728\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@venus \ud83e\ude90\ud83d\udc96\u2600\ufe0f\u2728\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8) 1625061354
Madonna and Lil Nas X appeared to strike up their friendship on the LA stop of Madonna's Madame X tour.
She and Nas then sat down together on stage, where he sang a bit of "Old Town Road" and she told him she would "teach [him] how to ride" horses at her horse ranch.
Both artists are well-known for their boundary pushing—but the public may have more of an appetite for Nas' than for Madonna's work lately.
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