Call Me By Your Name-referencing single for months now, first giving us a brief, Rihanna-approved snippet back in July 2020 (listen below). Now, he’s finally shared the release date for the much-anticipated track, alongside new visuals posted to Twitter.
According to the new post, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” is set to arrive this month, on March 26. The accompanying artwork shows a take on Michelangelo’s fresco “The Creation of Adam”, featuring two nude illustrations of the “Old Town Road” rapper (tastefully covered by fluffy clouds and greenery).
Lil Nas X has previously built hype for the track in an advert aired during the Super Bowl, as well as another photo set posted to social media last month.
Bates reveals that many women who share their stories with the Everyday Sexism Project say that when they have reported an incident, they’ve been told “they’re overreacting, making a fuss about nothing, or should have taken it as a compliment”.
Rose Caldwell, the CEO of Plan International UK adds: “There is no UK law that fully criminalises public sexual harassment, leaving perpetrators to get away with it. As one girl told us, you can be fined for dropping litter in the UK, but not for harassing a woman or girl in public. This cannot be right.”
In November, a report by Plan International UK and Our Streets Now – the campaign to make public street harassment a crime – detailed how sexual harassment was holding girls back. The study revealed that 80 per cent of parents prohibited their daughters from doing certain things, due to the threat of harassment. Off the back of their findings, the organisations launched their collaborative #CrimeNotCompliment campaign, which