Did ‘WAP’ Just Open Up A Huge Pandora’s Box?

‘WAP’ & Tigers: A Complex Relationship

Now, this issue erupted when Carol Baskin criticized the use of big cats in the music video. Carol has become quite a household name after the release of Netflix’s ‘Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness’ docuseries. According to her, the two primary issues with ‘WAP’ was the way in which the big cats had to be trained in order to be filmed and the constant association of owning an animal like this when one is swimming in wealth.

While she was glad that none of the cats were actually brought into the rooms with the singers. Her main issues where with the events that might’ve transpired in front of a green screen. As she articulated,

“You have to pose a wildcat in front of a green screen to get that image, and that doesn’t happen in the wild. It can’t happen in sanctuaries like ours where cats have plenty of room to avoid a green screen. That tells me they probably dealt with one of the big-cat pimps, who makes a living from beating, shocking, and starving cats to make them stand on cue in front of a green screen in a studio. That’s never good for the cat.”

Coming to the second part of her argument, she had this to say, “The worst part is that it glamorizes the idea of rich people having tigers as pets. While I think most are destroyed behind closed gates at that point, some end up being given away to people who want to have a tiger to show off. That never works out, and the cats either die or end up dumped in sanctuaries or, worse yet, breeding mills. Either way, it’s always abusive to the cat.”