Bodak Yellow is:

yeah i was really surprised by how much i liked the album after not really caring about bodak yellow

i haven't listened to the album front-to-back in quite some time but it's been fun to realize over the course of the year just how many really strong, memorable tracks there are as i hear them out-and-about, on radio mixshows and the like

Otm

I like it sounds great blasting from cars

we should really have a cardi thread

until then, interesting quote from GQ profile:

For listeners, Cardi's distinct vocal patterns are part of the appeal of her rap style. She makes English sound way more fun than it is. "Do you want to know something?" Cardi asks. "That's my biggest problem, that takes me a long time in the booth. I be trying to pronounce words properly and without an accent. Each and every song from my album, I most likely did it over five times, because I'm really insecure about my accent when it comes to music. In person, I don't care."

new song w/ bruno mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FitbJ3oqww

Dearie me:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47718477

Cosby B

it's kinda...insane to me that this doesn't seem to really be hurting her in any way

it's super fucked up

ten "Selectivity of Cancel Culture" dissertations by the end of the year imo

it's insane to me that people are comparing this to rape

yeah, she drugged johns and stole their money. shady behaviour, of course, but comparisons to cosby are o_0

nobody cares about johns basically (i know i don't)

It's not going to affect her because the only people equating the two either still idolize famous men who are sexual predators or because they need to believe that women are generally as trash as men. And she owned up to it; I am still waiting for multitudes of famous trash men to own up to any degree of fucked up behaviour.

ten "Selectivity of Cancel Culture" dissertations by the end of the year imo

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, April 1, 2019 10:24 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

will read, share

you can't be pro sex work and excuse this behavior imo

i don't seen anyone excusing it

people not being particularly exercised by it is a different thing

jim and yerac thoroughly otm.

i was not equating the two
things can be fucked up and be way less fucked up than say bill cosby

going to be trenchant here but would be weird to cancel cardi b over this when there are male rappers we lionize who probably have killed people

we're through the looking glass here people

nice engagement, paul. thanks for playing

clarification, my post wasn't addressing anyone specifically here, but rather the general push and push and push that this should even be a thing besides her narrative of what she had to do to survive. Feel free to have complicated feelings about any men vlogging about needing to rape to survive.

lmao

@ this thread

Seems pretty straightforward to me. What she did was not cool but seeing as johns can and should go fuck themselves it's really not that big a deal. No, it's not the same thing as a prominent dude drugging and raping a woman (do we really need to remind people of this?) - at worst, it's aggravated theft. And rapper dudes brag about way less acceptable shit than aggravated theft all the time. Should she get away with it? I personally don't give the ghost of a fuck but if you start asking these kinds of moral questions, apply your inquisitorial logic beyond Cardi B.

wtf is a john?

hahahaha

correct me if i'm wrong? but i think it's a fan of gorillaz

Slang word for a user of prostitution.

Bringing other rappers and Bill Cosby into it is total whataboutery, it's like saying Cosby isn't as bad as R Kelly because at least he didn't enslave loads of women.

"What she did was not cool but seeing as johns can and should go fuck themselves it's really not that big a deal."

What is worse:
1. paying for sex
2. drugging and robbing multiple people

I'm pro sex workers and anti sex work so there's your answer.

Not sure how that works, practically.

That's an interesting take. Just sounds like slut-shaming to me.

Nah. That's bad faith and you know it.

Um, why?

Because my position doesn't imply shaming or blaming sex workers for anything? On the contrary? I mean, plenty of countries have legislations that allow the sale of sex but not its purchase (Canada, France, Sweden, Norway, Ireland).

No, but you're shaming the other partner in the relationship.

Oh, so there's the plot twist. Yeah, sure, I'm cool that.

But why?

Because there’s a reason economically privileged women tend not to become sex workers, just as there’s a reason more than 2/3 of Germany’s brothels are filled with foreign sex workers. There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule most women, when given the choice, opt for other ways to make a living. I wonder why?

knowing she really did that makes me like the music more

Otm

Cardi: not a studio thug

love this

Woke #UP to a new @iamcardib song today so had to cover it!
Watch on https://t.co/bFFr7nleNw pic.twitter.com/GKSKDRpF3x

— Chloe Flower (@ChloeFlower) February 5, 2021

These options are very mild.

not feeling the new song much yet

gonna be a hit anyway

haven't heard the new one either but if it has piano in it that's anything like what's in that video i'm sold

funny to think that back in 2017 people were wondering if Bodak Yellow would be just a flash in the pan and now it only feels like a small part of her career

Up sounds good on first listen!

Bodak Yellow is: Diamond
https://www.vulture.com/2021/03/cardi-b-bodak-yellow-certified-diamond-history.html