#me making this while listening to megan thee stallion: this pussy depressed

[spicyclematis]

the chemistry is chemistry-ing

#made this because they actually reminded me of my original characters 😭😭😭 #the song is good too damn but i need to wait until tomorrow #lee jieun #iu #taehyung #bts #bangtan #love wins all #annietrack #usersky #me making this while listening to megan thee stallion: this pussy depressed #btsgif #btsedit

[groovesnjams]

5 / 50

"Cobra" by Megan Thee Stallion

MG:

There’s a lot to be said about turning your trauma into art, and I did say some of it while thinking about Lana Del Rey’s “A&W.” Megan Thee Stallion is about a decade younger (than both Lana and me) and her work is still fiery with recrimination and transformation. If she must suffer, then the suffering can be empowering, she can pry open the eyeballs of the world and force them to look, to see how she was wronged. And not to sound too much like I majored in English here, though I certainly did – it’s, you know, intriguing that she paired all this with killer snake imagery! Generally (but far from exclusively) this is a woman’s artistic domain. It’s Beyoncé’s Lemonade, it’s Fiona Apple’s Tidal, it’s Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors – these albums speak directly to women about their pain and humbling and about how fragile the life we construct really is. Whether you’re born in poverty or you’re the world’s foremost superstar, to exist is to hurt. Megan Thee Stallion is hurting, all her open wounds are documented on “Cobra,” but she’s also very in touch with her anger and that’s what makes this song epic. Beyond what she’s doing, the legacies she’s tapping into, “Cobra” is fantastic and compulsively listenable, winning over popheads, metalheads, and everyone in between. Megan Thee Stallion’s winking self-acceptance of her demons and Van Halen style guitar solo fade out sound like driving off a cliff and taking flight; may she fly free forever. 

DV:

Megan making a claim for control of her narrative and "shedding her past" by airing it out in song is a bold move on its own, as MG notes above. Structurally it's even bolder: Megan Thee Stallion would have every reason to turn these experiences into a "serious" track, Grammy bait, something confessional and ballad-esque. It would almost certainly work in that format! This is a dark story, bits of which I've run into on social media and bits of which were new, at least to me. It would require very little to make it into the kind of song that tugs at your heartstrings, and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with taking that path. But instead, stunningly, Megan chose to turn this harrowing story into an unconventional banger, a bop where the chorus hinges on a lyric that's unmistakably "This pussy depressed." There's no escaping either side of this song, no way to embrace the beat and ignore the lyrics or the other way around. "Cobra" has its cake and devours it too: it's unavoidably both things at once, capped off by my personal pick for most unexpected, and best, guitar solo of the year.

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