Oh, 73 Questions. Absurd, enlightening, surreal, infuriating. As a series, Vogue’s 73 Questions is many things, but it is not, apparently, profane. By any standard. In their visit to Cardi B’s grandmother’s house, Vogue asked all those questions while Cardi perched next to a napping Culture, talking about her pop idols (“The hood loves you, Lady Gaga!”) and thoughts on impeachment, as well as the music industry, fashion, her relationship with Offset, and many other things.
In the course of that conversation, she used the words ‘penis’ and ‘fart.’ Both were bleeped. They bleeped the word ‘fart.’ Bleeped it. It was bleeped. The word ‘fart’ was bleeped. Vogue bleeps farts, spread the word.
The fart question comes up at around 11:45, if that’s of interest.
It’s been a good couple days for 73 Questions-related material. Yesterday, writer and comedian Nicole Boyce posted this symphony of absurdity, a video that pairs some of the questions from Tony Hawk’s installment of 73 Questions with some of the answers from Lady Gaga’s:
“With all the achievements and the endorsements you’ve received over the years, what’s been the attitude toward you in the skate community?”
“Ah, that I’m from Yonkers and not Manhattan?”
And let us never forget Tahani Al-Jamil’s 582 Questions with International Sophisticate Magazine:
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*quietly adds “People who appeared on ‘73 Questions’” to list of who to put up against the wall when the revolution comes*
OMG A NEW CARDI B INTERVIEW!!!I LOVE THIS AMAZINGLY INTELLIGENT WOMAN!WOW, I LOVE HER INTERVIEWS AND ALWAYS LEARN SO SO MUCH WHEN I READ THEMITS NO WONDER SHE LIKES BERNIE SANDERS, SHE IS AMAZING!
Bleep the Fart is one of my favorite Star Wars characters.
Torture
Why are we supposed to give a shit what this person has to say again?
Good, I fucking hate the word fart.
Cardi is very posed and charming in this interview, but I still can’t balance it out with all of the accounts I have read about the shitty way she has treated some people who have worked for her. You don’t treat working people like that.But she gets points for hanging out in an environment that couldn’t be further from the Kartrashian lifestyle (although I know this isn’t Cardi’s own home).
At least with fart you can technically say “flatulence” or “gas” instead, even though you shouldn’t have to. “Penis” is literally the clinical term for it; you can’t get any more proper than a goddamn clinical term. Anybody who censors “penis” or “vagina” is a dumbass.
She normally kinda bleeps herself when she speaks.
Oh, you mean admitted date rapist/robber and current indicted person Cardi B?