Posted on 08/22/2020 5:00:12 AM PDT by Libloather
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have hosted a "WAP"-ping celebration of female sexuality with $1 million cash prizes after their collaboration debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (chart dated Aug. 22).
And the music video attracted more than 120 million YouTube views (at publishing time of this piece), reeling in tributes to icons before them and ushering in new hotties to join them at the playful, splashy zoo-like house. "WAP" is being heralded as an empowering anthem and visual for Black women who unabashedly take the reins of their own narrative, one that's typically untold or degraded in an industry ravaged by misogynoir, and paint their own watercolor picture of success with every color in the book.
So to keep the celebration of "WAP" going, we've prepared an 11-question quiz testing your knowledge of the ins and outs of the luxurious mansion featured in the music video and its esteemed guests. Test your knowledge below -- remember, 60% needed for a passing grade -- and let's hope there are some winners in this house.
(Excerpt) Read more at billboard.com ...
Boys will be boys.
Back in the day boys put up Farrah Fawcett posters, the red swim suit one. Farrah could not act or sing or.....
The best part of that interview was when Cardi lamented that she hopes the Democrats don't raise taxes too much.
Girl, you have no idea...
Kids bop version: waffles and pancakes https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJhdPGTD/
Like either of these girls would use “tuition” (from the song).
And Joe Biden loves CardiB ... see the Elle interview ... enough to make a 13-year old boy stutter: https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a33549416/cardi-b-joe-biden-interview/
“Farrah Fawcettl
..off to take a cold shower now.
“Kasem was a jerk in real life.”
He was always pretty cool with me. Maybe it was just you.
Know their lyrics? I don’t even know who they are!
“We disagree on the ability of the individual to enact controls to render an acceptable residual risk.“
I think we may be speaking at cross purposes here. My point (however poorly made) is that Cardi B represents the continuation of the slide into moral decay and that slide is perpetuated by the failure of individuals to, in your words, “enact controls” (demonstrate social responsibility toward their neighbors).
On another note, the very definition of art and the artist has changed (from producing that which is ennobling to a “pushing the envelope” attitude). That we are sitting here and may be entertaining the notion of things like WAP being “art” or people like a Cardi B being an artist says everything one needs to know about where we are as a society.
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And they banned Amos and Andy. This crap is promoted by record producer executives. In a meeting with Bill Bennet one walked out because Bennet used the B word. In order not to offend anyone I’ll only describe it as the name of a lunch meat and a city in Italy.
“Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, (like a block of wood; stupid.)
But music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus. (often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness)
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”
No one cried foul (Here in FR) when the naysayers were telling us that Trump said that he grabbed their pussy's .... did they ?
Tech-death like, well, Death would be good.
I don’t know what most folks’ take was about what the president said, and neither do you. I can imagine that quite a few were disappointed (can’t you imagine the same) as I get the feeling that not everyone here talks that way (or thinks it acceptable to do so).
When we fail to respond to what is wrong or what is evil, we offer them a standing invitation.
Meh.... flashlights are for pikers.
You did send that to me. Thank you. It’s not my cup of tea but I see what you’re talking about.
I *do* agree, that Cardi B is way worse than Brittany Spears and way worse than Madonna, who in their day were way worse than their predecessors. I also believe culture is generally more coarse nowadays than 40 years ago. Finally, if I had a young teenage child, I'd keep that child as far away from Cardi B (and most bands on XM Octane).
However, it's not a slam dunk that Cardi B's getting 120MM views on YouTube is prima facie evidence of the moral decay. To wit: how do we compare this level of morality with that of young teenagers in the 1970s who didn't have YouTube to stream pornographic imagery? To be sure, they were likely looking at Dad's Playboys (and worse) but we weren't getting a continuous tally of Johnnys around the world peeking at Miss June on TV in 1976. Maybe there WERE 120MM instances of teenage guys looking at Dad's mags...if so, would that mean that our level of moral decline isn't all that awful?
The impact of technology on morality is an important consideration. But it has to be a multi-dimensional discussion. The technological advancements that bring filth to our phones also bring us Mass on Sunday during lockdown an explosion of office productivity begotten by Excel and Word (PowerPoint is poison, however), the ability to stay in touch with grandparents in a manner whereby they aren't as lonely (and children stay connected to their elders), and homeschool easily, so on. Cardi B is certainly repulsive, and 120MM views is disconcerting, as is a whole Billboard article on this trash. But more people are able to provide more for their families and educate them away from government schools. Are we net-net, more decadent?
Prescinding from that discussion, I think what passes as 'art' today is pretty much the same as it was in the 1960s. The advent of "modern art" stretched the boundaries and, in large measure, with decent results. Personally I love ancient Greek pottery AND Andy Warhol. But while there will always be a market for really awful things like Mapplethorpe and this 'performance art' from Yoko, no serious human of which I'm aware consider this crap or WAP to be 'art.'
Thanks for listening.
But everyone snapped because he used the word kittykat (feel better ?)
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