Lil Nas X-mas has arrived early!
The two-time Grammy winner has been teasing his seasonal single for the last week, promising some on-brand holiday spirit.
He served sexy futuristic Santa at his opulent North Pole, as he dropped the Christmas-themed music video for Holiday, his first single in nearly two years.
Merry Lil Nas X-mas! Lil Nas X served sexy futuristic Santa at his opulent North Pole, as he dropped the Christmas-themed music video for Holiday, his first single in nearly two years
Coming to town: The two-time Grammy winner has been teasing his seasonal single for the last week, promising some on-brand holiday spirit
The video opens on a silver structure shaped like the 21-year-old’s head, hidden away in the ice-covered north.
Appropriate for its futuristic aesthetic, it’s revealed that the video is set on Christmas Eve in the year 2220.
Deep below the snowy ground, Lil Nas X sits in his office, sporting a white beard with a matching avant-garde hairstyle and creepy white eyes.
Instead of the typical red and white suit, he opts for a sparkling silver version of Kris Kringle’s look, trimmed in tinsel.
North Pole: The video opens on a silver structure shaped like the 21-year-old’s head, hidden away in the ice-covered north
Santa Nas X: Deep below the snowy ground, Lil Nas X sits in his office, sporting a white beard with a matching avant-garde hairstyle and creepy white eyes
Silver tinsel: Instead of the typical red and white suit, he opts for a sparkling silver version of Kris Kringle’s look, trimmed in tinsel
Boy toy: Down on a conveyor belt in his workshop, one box tips over, featuring the artist as a GI Joe-esque action figure
Great escape: He gets up and parachutes down levels of moving conveyor belts
On the run: He appears as another toy with a silver zebra-print mohawk and matching punk ensemble, who drives out of a wrapped present in a red toy Jeep
Foiled plan: The fugitive stocking stuffer crashes into the foot of a silver-clad elf (a la Orlando Bloom in Lord of the Rings), also played by Lil Nas X
He overseas a boardroom of robotic elves, as he looks out at his workshop, full of cyborgs hard at work on the Christmas present stock.
One box tips over, featuring the artist as a GI Joe-esque action figure, who gets up and parachutes down levels of moving conveyor belts.
He appears as another toy with a silver zebra-print mohawk and matching punk ensemble, who drives out of a wrapped present in a red toy Jeep.
The fugitive stocking stuffer crashes into the foot of a silver-clad elf (a la Orlando Bloom in Lord of the Rings), also played by Lil Nas X.
He picks up the car and places it back on the conveyor belt, before breaking out into dance with his robotic counterparts.
Back to work: He picks up the car and places it back on the conveyor belt
Dance break: The elf then breaks out into dance with his robotic counterparts
Suited up: Meanwhile, Santa Nas X takes the elevator up to his garage, where he steps out in his metallic hat and coat
Gotta fly: He hops into a red Dodge Challenger sleigh, as he’s carried off into the night by eight flying robotic reindeer
Express delivery: Daddy Christmas flies out of the mouth of his Lil Nas X-shaped factory
Meanwhile, Santa Nas X takes the elevator up to his garage, where he steps out in his metallic hat and coat.
He hops into a red Dodge Challenger sleigh, as he’s carried off into the night by eight flying robotic reindeer.
Daddy Christmas flies out of the mouth of his Lil Nas X-shaped factory, before passing through a Mount Rushmore also featuring his face in four different familiar looks.
He then jets by the Hollywood sign, which spells out ‘Holiday,’ before taking the Golden Gate Bridge and visiting the Statue of Liberty, also featuring his likeness.
Redesign: He then passes through a Mount Rushmore also featuring his face in four different familiar looks
Jetsetter: He jets by the Hollywood sign, which spells out ‘Holiday,’ before taking the Golden Gate Bridge and visiting the Statue of Liberty, also featuring his likeness
Name in lights: It ends with the decked-out futuristic sleigh taking a detour through Times Square, adorned with images of him on giant screens
It ends with the decked-out futuristic sleigh taking a detour through Times Square, adorned with images of him on giant screens.
Lil Nas X teased the track on Sunday, posting a clip from the set of the video for his breakout hit Old Town Road, featuring a twist.
He trotted in through a portal, before picking up a drunken Santa’s hat, which read, ‘You are the new Santa.’
The desert town was suddenly covered in a blanket snow, as he transformed into Santa and flew off into the future on a time-traveling sleigh.
Michael J Fox made an appearance in reference to Back to the Future Part III, telling him: ‘Whatever you do Nas, don’t go to 2020.’
Clever promo: Lil Nas X teased the track on Sunday, posting a clip from the set of the video for his breakout hit Old Town Road, featuring a twist