Two long awaited years after Normani gave us “Motivation” she has returned, recruiting Cardi B for the Aaliyah-sampling “Wild Side,” that has fans truly reeling.
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The percussion-heavy, Aaliyah-indebted R&B track has Normani go from smooth, sexy vocals in the hook singing, “This type s*** have you wylin’ / Last-minute trips to the islands,” to some vibey 2000s-era wordplay in the verse with, “Pull up inside me, baby (Boy) / F***in’ it up like oopsie-daisy.”
Along with the new track, the pair released a VERY NSFW jaw-dropping music video, but who cares, pretty much everyone works from home now anyway, so go ahead, hit that play button baybee! Well, when you’re done reading of course.
Directed by Tanu Muino, the gravity defying visual sees Normani cycle through what (and we’re exaggerating) seems to be hundreds of costume changes (okay fine, we exaggerated) and an array of gorgeous backdrops.
Cardi arrives on the latter side of the tracks midway point - glowing, baring her (at the time) barely there baby bump, and with a clothing budget of zero dollars, yeah that’s a not so subtle way of saying straight up naked. Holding on to hanging silver chains, standing on a literal pedestal, Cardi raps, “Boom, nothing but a robe in your house / I wanna put these pretty pink toes in your mouth / Send nudes to your phone while you workin’ / Boy, you gotta see this s*** in person, believe me.” Oh, we see you and we believe you Cardi.
Wearing less and less in each scene, Normani does what she does best, sing, dance, entertain, slay, basically just perform periodt. There’s show-stopping choreography, jaw dropping lewks, naked hugging, self-scissoring for a fun house mirror like duplicate dance break, oh and did we mention naked hugging?
Obviously the music videos’ arrival had the Twitter collective go off, and like the music video, they did not hold anything back. Once again, we scrolled and picked some winners, so you wouldn’t have to. We’d say you’re welcome, but we rather you direct your appreciation and gratitude towards Normani and Cardi, as they’re the ones who truly deserve it.
Among the noteworthy memes, a few of their famous friends had to send the duo some love, and even Cardi jumped in on the commotion, giving us a bit of back story to her verse. Okay, you may now proceed to the tweets.
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