It is pleasant, even winsome: a midtempo love song with ’80s rock seasoning, built around a syncopated guitar line that’s been run through the EDM swooshing machine. 1s.Įven with Cardi’s special sauce, which was only added to the song last May, and all that radio play, “Girls Like You” is a pretty nondescript pop hit. The chart-topper makes Cardi B the first female rapper to score three Hot 100 No. 1: “Girls Like You” spent 16 weeks in the Top 5, and for the last 11 of those weeks it was stuck behind either “Nice” or Drake’s viral Song of the Summer winner “ In My Feelings.” Billboard reports that airplay was the key to Maroon 5’s eventual success, but the video did its part: Now just shy of a billion views, the “Girls” clip gave the song a so-called inspirational push in the year of #MeToo, even though until Cardi B shows up, the cameoing women function largely as backup dancers. 1 by showcasing famous ladies in a video, after Drake’s performatively woke you-go-girl chart-topper “ Nice for What.” Perhaps appropriately, Drake is the chart giant Maroon 5 had to get past to reach No. Oddly, that’s the second time this year a male pop act has boosted a track to No. But probably not, so prepare for several spoonfuls of cold oatmeal.The song was also boosted by its video, which features a Lazy Susan’s array of famous women from Gal Gadot to Sarah Silverman to Ellen DeGeneres, literally rotating in and out of the vicinity of Levine’s mic stand and lip-syncing a line or two of the song. Maybe they’ll take the stage at halftime, and instead of performing, they’ll all whip out Colin Kaepernick jerseys, take a knee and throw their middle fingers to the cameras. Maybe, just maybe Maroon 5 will surprise us all. Do they think that Girls Like You was their contribution to the current social justice movement, so it erases any future dickery caused by maybe, I don’t know, not supporting the boycott? Girls Like You may be the anthem for cold oatmeal, but social justice anthem it is not. Don’t worry Travis, Kylie’s got this.Īnd Maroon 5 have been keeping very quiet. Poor Travis is just trying to contribute to the monthly household allowance. Jordan and others were quick to “ hells nah“, roll up their sleeves and have a few words with Travis to hopeful talk him out of performing and join the boycott. But Jay Z, Reverend Al Sharpton, Michael B. It’s not surprising, since Travis already sold his soul to Kris Jenner’s Koven when he made Rosemary’s Baby with the youngest completely self made billionaire in the world, Kylie Jenner. This Cardi new comes as word is barely cold that Travis Scott did a bad thing by agreeing to take “ Super Bowl Halftime’s sloppy seconds” alongside Maroon 5. She is already confirmed to do a set with Bruno Mars that weekend.”Īnd straight from Cardi’s own mouth, last February she said that she wouldn’t show up until they “ hire Colin Kaepernick back“.
But again, there was never a solid offer for her to say yes or no to regarding the Super Bowl. There talks about it, but she was not particularly interested in participating because of how she feels about Colin Kaepernick and the whole movement. There was never a firm offer to begin with for a performance. “The rumor circulating that she wants a million dollars and she wants her own set is false. Ok, she’s somewhere amidst Gandhi, Amber Rose, and an elementary school cafeteria sit in demanding fish fingers Fridays, but not all heroes wear capes, and Cardi has thrown herself in the ring as the latest boycotter of Super Bowl LII.Ĭardi took a little jet skiing break over the weekend to let her reps know that she will have nothing to do with that Super Bowl mess, even though she recorded Girls Like You with the purported Halftime headliners Maroon 5.
Cardi B may not be the first person who comes to mind when you hear the words “ political activist“.