Cardi B’s sexually depraved hit song shows why America needs a moral revolution

Cardi B’s sexually depraved hit song shows why America needs a moral revolution

Music videos have been celebrating vulgarity for decades, but Cardi B's new song raises moral turpitude to a new level.

Hip-hop and rap lyrics have long been sexually explicit and vulgar. But when the latest #1 song is too vulgar even to quote, and when you realize it will be sung by millions of young children, it’s time to say, Enough!

Within to weeks it has been watched 130 million times on YouTube, besides getting downloaded and listened to millions of times, and seen on TV by millions. It jumped into 4^th place on the Top-100 charts the very week it was released!

When Cardi B, the 27-year-old American rapper (and former stripper), began to skyrocket in fame in 2017, she said, “I realized, after Halloween, a lot of little girls, they be looking up to me. They love me, and I’m thinking to myself, like, ‘yo! I really need to be a better example.’  I’ve been trying to be a better example, more PG-13, less R-rated. But when I hang out with my hood-rat friends, then they F… me up all over again.”

In 2017, she had 12 million Instagram followers. Today she has 73 million. How many of them are “little girls”?

Based on her latest hit, which she performed together with Megan Thee Stallion, who is also known for salacious lyrics, it would appear that she has been hanging out with her “hood-rat friends” again.

The results are unquotable in any polite environment. Yet there is no doubt that little girls are singing along and dancing along to the filthy lyrics, even if many don’t have the slightest idea what the words mean.

As for the tens of millions who celebrate the song, they are a picture of just how depraved our culture has become.

This is nothing new, and music videos have been celebrating vulgarity for decades, with younger and younger audiences singing and dancing along. But that doesn’t mean we are permitted to get used to it or just ignore this. The sexual revolution of the 1960s has scarred society more deeply than we imagine. We wallow in moral and sexual pollution. Filth has become a path to fame.

The aim here is not so much to attack the two women who perform this song, but to protest against those who find nothing wrong with the content of their song. But we need to shout from the rooftops: “WAKE UP!” We really have become too desensitized. Immoral pollution has numbed our consciences and skewed our moral compass.

How bad can this new song be? Why make such a fuss about it? The answers are simple.

First, the lyrics are really, really bad! Verbal pornography basically! The song begins and ends with the refrain: ‘There’s some whores in this house’ and everything that happens in between confirms those declarations.

Second, the video of the two swimwear-clad ‘ladies’ (Cardi and Megan) ‘dancing’, cavorting and twerking, is lewd, libidinous and obscene.

Third, the song is being celebrated and is played on every radio and TV station, reaching billions.

According to the Los Angeles Times, “Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ is a savage, nasty, sex-positive triumph.”

According to The Guardian, “Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's WAP should be celebrated, not scolded.”

According to a Teen Vogue headline: “‘WAP’ Reaction Shows How Threatened Men Are By Female Sexuality…. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new anthem brought out an age-old debate over female sexuality.”

And on and on it goes. Have we totally lost our minds? Have we become so hardened that there is no place for purity, no place for personal honour, no place for sexual dignity?

Hardly any voices have been raised in protest. I have yet to see any comment by a church leader.

And we Salesians - Can we make sure that we engage with young people about it?

We must awake from our slumber and stir ourselves from our moral inertia.

• Acknowledgement to Michael L. Brown - First published - August 14, 2020 on LifeSiteNews

                   (adapted and shortened by Safcam)