Grammy Awards Audience With Cardi B’s Salacious Burlesque Show
By Bob DeMoss • bobdemoss.com • Lynchburg, Virginia
We cancel books by Dr. Seuss because his influence on kids might be harmful. I haven’t seen any empirical—or even anecdotal—data to support that overblown, politically correct concern. Nevertheless, the youngins must be protected from hidden messages in Horton Hears a Who! and Green Eggs and Ham.
If these woke-a-dopers were genuinely concerned about harming youth, why are they silent when the morally numb producers of the Grammy Awards throw a duo of crotch-stroking, stage-humping, stripper pole-fondling “artists” into our faces without a thought that maybe, just maybe, a few million kids might catch the act?
According to this report, “Households that watch the Grammy Awards are predominantly young families with children” who are “2.5 times as likely to have 2+ kids under the age of 6.”
There’s a host of scholarly analyses documenting the harmful impact of sexualized images upon youth, especially adolescent girls.
With that in mind, watch Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion perform“UP” and “WAP” while humping the stage and each other—then tell me that’s appropriate “entertainment” for 6-year-olds . . . or worthy of anyone possessing a scintilla of modesty or decency.
In addition to common sense, there’s a host of scholarly analysis documenting the harmful impact of sexualized images upon youth, especially adolescent girls.
And then there Jesus who said, “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6 NIV).
And yet, CBS proudly offered their airwaves as a platform for these scantily-clad women to romp and cavort in a bed larger than the largest California King on the market.
CBS is the same network which prohibited Lucy Ricardo from using the “offensive” word “pregnant” during the I Love Lucy show. They also debated whether or not to permit showing a toilet in the pilot episode of Leave It To Beaver. And yet they have no issue today with leg-spreading public exhibitions of decadence.
Clearly, CBS is in the toilet today—as are the ratings for the Grammy’s which have been on a decade-long slide. Statista reports the audience share has been more than halved since 2012. And this year’s numbers were down 53% off last year. Perhaps the best thing to come out of the cancel culture would be cancelling the Grammy’s—although they’re doing a pretty good job of losing the audience all on their own.
You do know that racism and expressing your own sexuality are two totally different things right. In the case of the Dr. Suess books, the estate decided to remove the 6 books from being printed because the language and depictions that were made decades ago where widely used at the time and have long since been explained to derogatory and racist. That’s progress and it’s a good thing.
What happened on the Grammys was 2 artist expressing their art. Was it my taste? No. Do I think it was honoring to God? No. But that’s not what the Grammys are about. And that performance was not that much more salacious than anything I’ve seen pretty much every year. And they did give a warning to parents. They gave a list of performers and what songs they would sing days in advance. As a parent myself, if I had wanted to watch it with my child and was concerned about the content I could have taken the time to look up the list and decide if it was appropriate. (My kid is 3 and was in bed already so I recorded it and just let him watch BTS the next day because we love dancing to their music.)
While I understand your outrage at a performance that wasn’t to your taste, please don’t compare it to a legitimate attempt to of an estate to do the correct thing and do the actual work of reversing our out of date racist stereotypes.
So what? Who is really backing you up in this at the grass roots? Do we boycott? Do we send letters? I know there are alternative entertainment venues, but are Christ followers pursuing these or mearly walking in a fog. Do we comprehend how far we have fallen into te debauchery that your article reveals? How many decades did it take to go fom not allowing the word “pregnancy” to be spoken to the Grammy’s “display”? Not very many. At this very moment, I feel like we have lost so much ground, and it will never be made up. I mourn the fact that we will not be going back to any better sense of morality in this nation.
All that being said, thank you for your article, and I pray many many parents read it and forward your message on.