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Cardi B’s greatest hit — 33 Comments

  1. The absurd and grotesque Lena Dunham posted a video of herself dancing to this “song”, the video of which is utterly without merit aesthetically, lyrically, and musically, while the talented country singer Margo Price has done an acoustic version with the original “words.” Such is the state of popular culture in our nation, and woe betide anyone white (or male) who criticizes such garbage, but could any educated and well-informed voter, given a choice between Candace for Trump and Cardi for Biden (the two having been in a recent battle on Twitter), truly regard the latter as more sensible?

  2. So, out curiosity, I looked up the lyrics.

    Wow! There is no clever double entendre at all. It’s just self-degradading filth.

  3. “The prosecutor in the first Scottsboro trial said the jury must be doing something right, saying ‘it’s what people want to hear’.”

  4. I’m so old I remember when George Michael released a song called ‘I Want Your Sex’ in 1987 and there was a huge controversy and he had to release a statement to be played before the video aired.

    By today’s standard that was a nursery rhyme.

  5. Thanks to that misspent youth I’ve referenced before, I’ve done and said things that probably would make some of the regulars here shudder, and even I think this is a bit much. Normally you have to pay if you want to hear a woman say anything this crude.

    On the plus side, it is definitely hetero in nature – it’s nice to see that some Millennials are still old school enough to apparently appreciate actual sex, with the opposite sex.

  6. I have avoided rap entirely, but I did know that male rappers tend to treat women as objects for male gratification. Sad that Cardi B thinks only “religious” people think this kind of thing is not good for women and how they are treated.

    And Kamala Harris says she’s “proud” of Jacob Blake, who got shot because he violated a protective order and resisted arrest.

    Apparently the idea that women who are not professional sex workers should be treated with respect is gone.

  7. This old school guy just read the lyrics.
    I’m gasping. Simply GASPING.

    But, hey, she’s not a Trump Fan.

    Well, DDuuuuuuuhhhhh….!!!

  8. I’ve been watching political campaigns for nigh on to 70 years. I have never seen anything like this one. Are the Democrats in charge trying to throw the election? I think most likely is that the guys in charge are intensely partisan zero talent operators. They’re like the dog that finally caught the car. Now what?

  9. Roy Lofquist (6:06 pm) said:

    “Are the Democrats in charge trying to throw the election? . . . They’re like the dog that finally caught the car. Now what?”

    — — — — —

    Conquest’s third law of politics: “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”

  10. Cardi B’s depravity is only exceeded by the leaders of those organizations who have celebrated her. She’ll probably get a ticker tape style parade upon her entrance to hell. One of Jezebel’s acolytes.

  11. M J R: It’s hard to forgive Conquest for being so right! I love this Conquest tidbit:
    ___________________________________

    When Conquest’s publisher asked him to expand and revise “The Great Terror” [under Stalin], Conquest is famously said to have suggested the new version of the book be titled “I Told You So, You F***ing Fools.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conquest

  12. huxley (8:48 pm) tidbitted:

    “When Conquest’s publisher asked him to expand and revise ‘The Great Terror’ [under Stalin], Conquest is famously said to have suggested the new version of the book be titled ‘I Told You So, You F***ing Fools.’

    — — — — —

    UP VOTE !

  13. It surprises me a bit that Cardi B is that popular, presumably abroad as well as here. Well, the interview from which Neo quotes was on an Australian program, so that makes sense. (Speaking of which, is there a lot of ex-US readership for this blog?) But then, anything about hip-hop culture or anything like that is always going to be under my radar.

    This is one more example of why I think the Amish have essentially the right idea – don’t just turn it off, smash it and throw it out, then keep it out. The existence of a recording like this is itself evidence of an anti-social mindset on the part of everyone involved in its production and distribution. Here’s why: We all exist in a social matrix around us. Some with more exposure, others with less, but it’s always there and we ‘swim’ in it. A thing like this is like pouring ink or sewage into that ‘pool’ of society. It diffuses – maybe there are corners of the ‘pool’ that the contamination never quite reaches at strength, but the effect does get almost everywhere in the end. Cardi herself would no doubt be one of those smarty-pants people who say “well, if you don’t like it, don’t listen” without realizing, or choosing to ignore, this aspect of her ‘work’. This is not news to most people here, of course; I’m just conceptualizing it to myself, which could come in handy if I ever have to argue the point with my younger relatives or similar.

    But maybe she’s being honest when she says this kind of stuff is just normal to her. In her sphere, that may well be true. God help her if so. Dreher it was, I believe, who commented on this same example, “What a sick joke this culture has become.”

    If I wanted to be mean, I might offer the hypothesis that if there were a way to encode some kind of neural trigger in this recording such that whoever listens to it all the way through more than, say, 15 times would have his or her brain spiked with code that would cause sudden and irreversible debility in four to five years after that, a variety of problems might be solved. But as I say, that would be mean.

    However, if such a trigger could be devised, much better to have it be, say, a subliminal Psalm 50 that would suddenly spring to mind at that five-year mark, and be prayed fervently. “Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy…” That could also solve many problems, and in a more God-pleasing way than my first suggestion, which is reprehensible. If the one could be done, then the other should also be possible.

    (edit: Neo, you caught my exact thought upon seeing Cap’n’s comment! The Prophets had a couple of things to say along those same lines.)
    (edit 2: misspelled the rapper’s name at one point – whatever, these rappers are all the same to me.)

  14. Who is this Corgi-B chap? I would have simply said “Pembroke Welsh Corgi” instead of “Cardigan Welsh Corgi” Calling yourself Corgi-B seems so dehumanizing.

  15. Ms B’s previous employment as stripper, prostitute and small time criminal is quite apparent.

  16. The Restoration was followed by Methodism, the Regency by victorianist impulses.
    What’s coming this time around?

  17. Caedmon, that’s true. I was just a little disappointed that in that clip, she sang with her back to the altar. Okay, it’s a concert piece, fine (one of my issues with Western sacred music of the last few hundred years). Still… otherwise, quite nice.

    Given your moniker, you know something about sacred music, I figure. 🙂

  18. Neo:

    Good point. But I figure when He does show up to “judge between the quick and the dead,” Cardi B has established such an appallingly low baseline for “the dead” that I now have a better chance of being among the “quick.” So, “Bring It.”

  19. There’s nothing new about black women singing filthy lyrics. Look up Lucille Bogan
    on YouTube sometime. She was singing just as dirty as anything CruddyB ever came up with back in the 1930s. “Shave “Em Dry” is about as dirty as you’d ever like a song to be.

  20. Candace vs. Cardi is the perfect metaphor for the 2020 election, which in terms of cultural popularity is troubling.

  21. NeoConScum on September 8, 2020 at 6:00 pm said:
    This old school guy just read the lyrics.
    I’m gasping. Simply GASPING.

    But, hey, she’s not a Trump Fan.

    Well, DDuuuuuuuhhhhh….!!!

    You’ve led a sheltered life. This stuff is as old as time. See my post above^^.

  22. As donfulano said, Candace Owens is or was running a Twitter war with CardiB.
    It’s on Twitchy if you want to watch the fight.

  23. Int.Bystander:
    Yep, I’m appalled at my decades not slithering around looking for filth. Look at the “renaissance of wonder” this white boy has missed.

    Thank God.

  24. I haven’t listened to the song and won’t so I may be off base here. But, WAP (term maybe not song) is empowering and pro womxn, pro feminist? Females are powered by their ‘P’, ‘W’ or not? Sure, and Baby It’s Cold Outside is about rape and needs canceling. Cool.

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