Photo via Tara Simon Studios/YouTube
March 18, 2021, 1:09 pm
A voice coach named Tara Simon is being resoundingly mocked online for becoming emotional because Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion performed WAP at the 2021 Grammys and some kids could have seen it. WAP has become a focal point in the latest conservative moral panic due to its celebration of Black women’s sexuality, and the Grammys rendition pushed it back into the spotlight.
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Tara Simon, who owns a vocal coaching company and a corresponding YouTube account, was hardly able to speak for a full 45 seconds in her video responding to the performance, openly crying over it. Cardi B herself posted this clip from the 10-minute video, including a simple comment.
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“Really? Over WAP?” she said.
“For you mothers out there and you fathers out there, with children,” Simon manages before having to take a long pause to compose herself. “For those of you out there who are wondering, ‘what’s safe, where do I show my kids, how do I show, what do I show my kids that’s good, that’s noble, that’s pure, that’s edifying, that’s worthy?’ I wanna say be careful. And I wanna say that I’m being careful, too.”
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Megan Thee Stallion commented on Cardi B’s Instagram video suggesting that Simon was only pretending to cry.
“She keep wiping her eyes and it ain’t even no damn tears,” she wrote.
Cardi B also included a clip from earlier in the YouTube video showing Simon reacting as she watched the performance of WAP, which is arguably even funnier than her crying. Simon spends most of her time watching with a pinched face, reacting to every butt sway with winces and wide eyes like it’s physically painful for her to see.
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Before the performance is over, Simon shuts it off, claiming that she simply can’t finish it. She then goes on to argue that the song and performance created and directed by women somehow objectifies those women, and that putting it on a national stage sends the message that you can only be liked if you’re being sexy.
“It grieves my heart to think that something like this is glorified on a stage, is televised, is supported monetarily, is emulated,” she says.
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We could say the same thing about Donald Trump, but sure, a sexy song is the problem.
These kinds of arguments have been repeated time and time again over the decades since rap, hip hop, and other music genres dominated by Black people emerged. Meanwhile, women everywhere have continued to find success in all areas of life, no thanks to conservatives who stand against any effort to give them a leg up in the face of a largely conservative sexism.
At least she didn’t describe the WAP performance as “popping your vagina into another woman’s vagina,” as Candace Owens bizarrely tweeted.
*First Published: March 18, 2021, 1:09 pm
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