- "One Margarita" is the sex-positive song of the summer.
- But it all started with an anti-sex rant by Sister Cindy, an evangelist who has over 400,000 followers on TikTok.
A brown Camaro Z28 pulls up outside a restaurant and Cindy Crawford steps out of the passenger seat. She makes her way inside and is served a salt-rimmed margarita at the bar. Millennial men watch with dropped jaws as she takes a seductive sip. The only thing more striking than how amazing Crawford looks at 57 is the video — and the song — that follows.
The song in question is "One Margarita," which is all about the way the narrator's sexual behavior progresses with each margarita she consumes. And it's got a very unlikely origin story.
Where does the song 'One Margarita' come from?
Cynthia Smock, better known as Sister Cindy, is an evangelist with over 400,000 followers on TikTok. The 64-year-old has spent the past four decades touring college campuses to preach against what she considers sexual sins.
She spoke several times at Free Speech Alley at Louisiana State University, or LSU, which took place between March 21 and 23. Ironically, it was a line from one of her speeches that inspired the 2023 sex-positive summer jam "One Margarita."
"If you buy her one margarita she will spread her legs!" Smock emphatically told students at LSU, before going on to explain what happens when you buy her two margaritas, and three, and four.
It's not the first time she's brought up margaritas. In April 2021, Smock told students at Indiana State University something similar.
"If you buy her two margaritas, she will jump right on your penis," she can be heard saying in a video recorded at the time. To date, a video of Smock's speech has been watched 8.7 million times on TikTok.
But that was just the beginning.
Enter: That Chick Angel
Angel Laketa Moore is an influencer and actress better known as That Chick Angel on YouTube and TikTok.
In late May, she was watching a video of Sister Cindy's speech at LSU right before starting an episode of "Here's the Thing," a podcast she co-hosts with comedian KevOnStage, according to Wired.
"She was just talking about the dangers of alcohol and how women just become out of their mind with sexual acts... and when I heard it, right before we started the show, in my head I was like 'Hmm, this feels more like the inspiration of a rap song,'" Moore told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday.
And so Moore did exactly that, taking Sister Cindy's words and remixing them into a rap song about what happens after she drinks one, two, three, four, and yes, even five margaritas.
She posted a video to YouTube on May 25 in which she's freestyling the lyrics. That clip led to the release of an official video on June 1. The song has now been streamed more than 9 million times on Spotify alone, and it's become the TikTok song of the summer.
Enter Cindy Crawford
Now it's August, and I just discovered "One Margarita." How, you might ask? Well, that's where Cindy Crawford comes in.
A remix video featuring Saucy Santana — a rapper best known for his "Material Girl" video — was released on July 28. The video plays on a legendary Superbowl Pepsi ad from 1992.
In the original commercial, Cindy Crawford stepped out of her sports car in a tight white tank top and cut-off jean shorts, as teenage boys gawked from a distance. They watched in awe as she took a swig from a Pepsi bottle.
The new remix features a similar scene. Crawford is even sporting the same outfit from the '90s, but now she's substituted the soft drink with a — you guessed it — margarita.
Moore told Entertainment Tonight that Giant Music, the label behind the video, already had a relationship with Casamigos, the tequila brand featured in the video. Crawford's husband, Rande Gerber, is a cofounder of the brand.
Moore said Crawford's children, who are in their 20s, played a part in persuading their supermodel mom to take on the part.
"Cindy Crawford is one of the premiere definitions of beauty, of just elegance. She is just the supermodel... I still can't believe it. When she walked onto that set I was like, 'This is not real! Is this real life right now?'" Moore told ET.
And that's how you go from college-campus rant to mega-hit that has captured the attention of millennials, including me — and probably even some baby boomers — in less than five months.