The United States of America is currently battling the coronavirus and a second wave of the civil rights movement. Yet, American politicians have turned their focus towards and have criticised and slut-shamed Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion for their newly released WAP music video.
Despite the presidential election holding in less than 3 months; two adult women talking about their sex lives is the primary interest of American politicians.
Funny enough, there was NONE of this outrage when Megan was shot last month.
This week saw the eagerly anticipated collaboration between two of rap’s hottest talents, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, dropped along with its video.
Cardi and Megan’s raunchy collab has wild lyrics like “bring a bucket and a mop for this wet a*s p*ssy“.
From instantly meme-able lyrics to stunning visuals that demand all the MTV VMAs next year; social media went into meltdown over the song. They even praised it as the song of the summer we lost to the COVID-19 quarantine.
However, compared to many of the songs that have graced the pop and hip-hop scene for decades, WAP is not even that lewd.
Others believe it will result in all girls “going to hellfire”. Instead of concentrating on the aforementioned slightly important events going on in the world right now; a number of Republican (read: racist and misogynist) politicians have turned their attention to a song about banging.
But if they already knew that the song was going to be overtly sexual; as a judgmental Christian, WHY LISTEN TO IT OR WATCH THE VIDEO IN THE FIRST PLACE? If it is not your type of music, just don’t watch or listen to it. There’s an audience for it and it’s not you.
The fact that they openly criticised and tried to shame Cardi and Megan for the WAP music video just proves something we already know; that society hates sexual women, especially, sexually confident Black women. It goes to show that society in 2020 is still not as progressive as it thinks it is.
Women rapping about sex has become such a controversial topic, whereas men have been objectifying women in music for as long as pop music has existed.
It is so important for women to reclaim that and be as raunchy as they want because society has denied women of sexual expression for millennia. When it happens, it packs a punch. But that’s just something society will have to deal with.