The issue is that no, you don't have to like the song. You don't have to care about it at all. You can, in fact, literally hate it. Thing is, they keep making the WORST comparisons & acting like Cardi choosing to do her own song is especially degenerate compared to literally all the stuff that came before.
Or Cardi B can just do what she wants to do. It's not her fault or her problem to address the gender disparity in open displays of sexuality.
Besides, anyone who has followed Cardi for years knows that this is exactly who she is. She doesn't put on a front, which is a huge part of her appeal.
Def not, but there *could* be a conversation about what women feel like they're expected to do.
The "Bodak Yellow" rapper believes the raunchy talk is what the audience is responding to from artists at the moment. "It seems that's what people want to hear," she explained. "When I did 'Be Careful,' people we're talking mad shit in the beginning. If that's what people ain't trying to hear, then alright, I'm gonna go rap about my p---y again."
I'm sure she found WAP fun just like anything else, and it's not NOT her. Question is if she feels like anything else she makes isn't gonna hit aa hard.
And then also if that's something to talk about at all. Like, is it important to talk about it?
Probably better to just - as she says - support women who aren't singing about that stuff too, instead of coming for her.
It's a shame that religious people and right-wingers have because associated with opposing this objectification, because it means people on the left and those who are not religious find it hard to speak out against it.
It is one thing to claim that it is an expression of female sexuality, it is another to recognize the misogyny in the fact that it is only women and never men who are sexualized like this. If you want to express sexuality, then at least do that instead of pandering to the male gaze and to male sensitivities.
Ultimately, this is the messiest conversation to have. And I def don't have an answer to it.
But a lot of the imagery for these songs is catering to the male gaze, sure - and the one that are not - maybe even more queer-friendly like Janelle Monae vids at times - simply don't blow up as hard.
It's a long-ass conversation about what constitutes empowerment & what doesn't, abd it is so very different from the type of objectification we talk about elsewhere.
But it's also for someone else to have, probably.
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