Wet-ass pussies are also normal and healthy things. Suddenly, she needs to think about what she’s said and the example she’s setting.Īmericans want wet-ass pussy - we just don’t want to hear from the people who have them. But when a woman reciprocates that desire and flexes control, she’s crossed a line - too bawdy, too raunchy, too nasty. We’re encouraged to ogle and obsess over their bodies. In its success and its backlash, the song exposes America’s scathing double standard. Gender is more complicated than biology, but in our reaction, the “wet-ass pussy” serves as a metonym for sexuality of all women and those assigned female at birth. “People will be saying they don’t like hoes and they don’t like that p-ssy talk. “People be lying,” Cardi told Apple Music in an interview about the song and its reception. I miss real singers like U who didn"t have to be naked in videos to get our attention.❤ - Diane Warren August 10, 2020 And songwriter Diane Warren seemed to shame the women while commemorating Whitney Houston’s birthday: The “ think of the children” panic reared its head. One even dared to say something was physiologically wrong with Cardi’s and Megan’s genitalia. For every song like “WAP” that gets mainstream play, there are too many to count about straight male escapades.Ĭritics, predominantly conservative ones, have sprouted up, saying that Cardi and Megan crossed the line. Music doesn’t often make much room for an anthem like “WAP,” sung unapologetically by two Black women. “WAP” debuted at the top of Spotify’s US Streaming charts with 2.3 million plays, and made history as the first female collaboration to do so while breaking records for the highest first-day streams for a women-led rap song. Since premiering on Friday, the music video - which censors the song title to “Wet and Gushy” - has accumulated more than 85 million views on YouTube. They swerve humor (“punani Dasani”) into flashy nastiness (“I wanna gag, I wanna choke / I want you to touch that lil’ dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat”) and smirking bravado (“Your honor, I’m a freak bitch, handcuffs, leashes / Switch my wig, make him feel like he cheatin’”) and have created the anthem for our pandemic summer. Cardi and Megan rap a brawny, brassy fantasy about female sexual prowess. “WAP” is the acronym for Wet-Ass Pussy, a three-minute, seven-second paean to lubricated vaginas. Megan is a religious experience, a powerhouse, an apex predator, and a provider. In four lines, Megan Thee Stallion exalts the privilege of performing cunnilingus on her, before issuing a taunt, a guarantee of endurance from her vagina. In the food chain, I’m the one that eat ya Never lost a fight, but I’m lookin’ for a beating Put him on his knees, give him somethin’ to believe in Since Shakespeare was a mere human being just like us, the thinking goes, there’s nothing stopping us from creating our own legendary works of art.īut Shakespeare, while he had an unending pandemic to create King Lear, never came close to creating this rhythmic flow of genius from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”: You see, back in the dark days of the bubonic plague, a man named William Shakespeare wrote the masterpiece King Lear. At the beginning of the pandemic, we were told that being locked away from friends, family, and everyone else around us didn’t mean we couldn’t produce something special.
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