Ask Pardes 4: Cardi B, Spirit Animal
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): PardesSeleh.com
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/10/17
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Who is Cardi B? Why is she your new spirit animal?
Pardes Seleh: She raps. I think she is Dominican. Her style is very street artisty. It is confident. I think she embodies what a lot of people are craving. That is this unapologetic confidence, regardless of gender.
It looks like she doesn’t care about social justice. She is herself. She’s not speaking for anybody else, but I think the reason she is so popular is that she represents this growing wave of people want to distance themselves from identity politics and victim narratives.
It is this universal sense of confidence that can be applied to anybody. She did this video about what to do “if your man cheats,” in which she said she’d pull a prank on her guy and get him to sleep with a “tranny” while he’s drunk. It’s pretty funny.
The messages in her songs and tweets are from a position of power and not weakness.
The quality of her music itself kind of sucks and she uses crass language. She is also typically not the best dressed, in my opinion, in terms of fashion. But her personality – the main driving factor behind what made her music great and what got her so many fans in such a short amount of time- is why i like her so much.
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