"[2] In 2022, Billboard suggested that Lil Nas X was one of the earliest celebrity adopters of the monochromatic pink Barbiecore trend.
[3] Some critics have suggested that this outfit was the beginning of Lil Nas X's style pivot to an embrace of queer fashion.
[4] Throughout 2019 and early 2020, Lil Nas X embraced a country-western aesthetic for his red carpet appearances and live shows.
[1][5] Prior to the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, Lil Nas X's stylist, Hodo Musa, told the Los Angeles Times that this would be his final outfit that would reference this aesthetic.
Reception from outside the critical community also trended positive,[12] with detractors primarily expressing homophobic sentiments as the reason they disliked the outfit.