Source: Cindy Ord / Getty "Lil’ Nas X’s cover gives a different feel because he’s singing about an unconventional love triangle between himself as a gay man and his male partner and a woman. He’s begging a presumably straight woman not to snatch the love of his life away from him simply because she can. Being that we live in a homophobic world, a heterosexual relationship is more palatable, centered and there are no worries about being shamed. So in begging Jolene not take his man, he asking that she not lure his partner in with the promise of acceptance and safety."
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