Not So “Spectacular”: Kiely Williams, Black Erotics, and Sexual Responsibility
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid
I hang—and I mean hang—out on Twitter, usually hearing from and conversing with the left-leaning, boho-y, news-and-views types. Through them I get the latest pop-culture stink, like a former Cheetah Girl making a song and video about a drunken one-night stand.
Beyond the usual calls for the singer and her creative team to be banished, I thought Kiely Williams went up to them personally and shat all over their teddy bears and baby blankets, the way some people tsk-tsked about this former child star shaking her behind:
…haven’t seen the video, but the fact that she’s a former Cheetah Girl makes it even worse IMO.
The more generous critiques tsk-tsked that Williams’ people need to come and get her, if they could.
Everyone needs EVERYONE. Balance. [L]ook at Kiely, [T]hat girl could use her daddy, may he rest.
With all this thumbs-downing, I had to experience it for myself.
In the video, you see her looking like she’s sashaying home from a drinking-and-sexing night (the handcuffs attached to her wrist adds a certain ooo-girl thrill to Williams’ morning-after walk). She (and a trail of other women doing the walk) get catcalled by a couple of Black men, whom she flips off. A white guy, strolling with his white female partner, turns and starts following Williams with his nose open. The woman smacks him when he rejoins her. All the while she’s singing about her, ahem, “wild night”:
Last night I was drunk
I don’t remember much
But what I do constant pictures
Thats how going I was
But he was tall and he was buying
So I gave him a trying
Said he was like a stallion
And the man wasn’t lying
Last I remember I was face down
Ass up, clothes off, broke off, dozed off
Even though I’m not sure of his name
He could get it again if he wanted
Cause the sex was spectacular
The sex was spectacular (yeaaah)
The sex was spectacular
The sex was spectacular
So it was the morning after
I couldn’t get home faster
Doing the walk of shame
In the same clothes from yesterday
I think he pulled a track out
When he was blowing my back out
What was I drinking
I cant believe I blacked out
Last I remember I was face down
Ass up, clothes off, broke off, dozed off
Even though I’m not sure of his name
He could get it again if he wanted
Cause the sex was spectacular
The sex was spectacular (yeaaah)
The sex was spectacular
The sex was spectacular
You can say what you want but
You can call me a slut but
What he did to me last night felt so good
I must have been on drugs
I hope he used a rubber
Or I’mma be in trouble
Promise I don’t remember
Except for
Give it to me, give it to me
Ooh baby what a ride ride
Oh ride ride
So smooth like it beats
I like the heat
Ooh baby what a night night
Right right
Cause the sex was spectacular
The sex was spectacular (yeaaah)
The sex was spectacular
The sex was spectacular
Where some folks go from finger-wagging to full-on outrage is the consensuality: was it there if Williams was already drunk and getting drunker by her one-night partner? Statistics say that 1) alcohol is usually involved in acquaintance sexual assault. And we’ve heard the stories of—or even know the people, usually cisgender young women–on college campuses attempting to cope with the anguish and shame of date rapes because they felt they shouldn’t have been “passed out, drunk” at a party. At the same time, I’ve heard from some friends who swear that “drunk sex” is some of the best sex they’ve ever had, even saying that, like Williams, they barely remember the evening but can vividly remember the act(s). (One friend said of the experience, “I wish I had a video camera.”) So, at best, Williams is celebrating some spectacularly unsafe fucking; at worst, Williams is salaciously singing about a sexual assault.
The singer must be feeling the public lip-pursing because :
“Williams insists she isn’t condoning casual sex and wants to highlight the problem of girls who fail to use protection during intercourse.
“’I am playing a character in the music video for the song ‘Spectacular,’ as I did in the ‘Cheetah Girl’ movies,” she said.
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