Welcome to the New York Times pop cast, your lean all in my bladder of music, news, and

criticism.

I am your host, John Caramonica.

If I could play for you the sound of little Nas X tweeting, that's what I would play.

I can't play that, so that was Montero, call me by your name, which is the most recent

big single from Lonaisex.

Lonaisex is having a very big year.

There's an album coming ostensibly, but really Lonaisex is a child of the internet, a creature

of the internet, and a champion of the internet.

Montero is a very big single.

I've written about, basically I've written about it twice already, once because of Lonaisex

handled all the internet blowback to the video, and the video is salacious, but good-natured

and funny.

And yet, of course, received a lot of predictable conservative blowback.

That's one thing, and also because there are multiple different YouTube versions, system

gaming versions of Montero, call me by your name, to extend the life of the single, which

is something that I wrote about, kind of hand in hand with the bottom-gottom beatbox,

beatbox 2, beatbox 3, etc, etc.

So Lonaisex, already out in front this year, we're going to talk this week with Jasmine

Hughes, who wrote the cover story for the Times Magazine about Lonaisex that came out

last week, later, at the end of the show, stick around, because I want to share a little

bit of wholesome storytelling about a recent trip I took.

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