Still don’t believe that Nicki is actually kind of cool? Google “Nicki Minaj bossing up” and see if her speech about double standards in the music industry doesn’t give you the warm fuzzies. She has ambition beyond being a pretty face to plaster on records, and she dares to define her own image (think all those crazy wigs and costumes she sported at the beginning of her career). Nicki is telling you that she is not there for you to ogle at. Drake reaches out to grab her and she smacks his hand away. We see her chop a banana in half with a knife and throw it over her shoulder. Nicki Minaj proves, time and time again, that she is having absolutely none of the male gaze. If the song itself is the greatest of the last few centuries, then its accompanying music video is undeniably the most magnificent work of art since the Sistine Chapel. We’re used to hearing about sex, but the explicit stuff tends to come from a male perspective, so just the fact that Nicki is going into so much gory detail about her sex life without inviting any kind of feedback or hinting at shame is really different from what we usually hear from female artists.”
In the lyrics of anaconda, nicki brags about her sexual conquests in a way that girls rarely do. im not joking this is the best song made in like hundreds of years “no really im serious nicki minaj repurposing a song about the male view of sexual climate into a destigmatized anthem of championing your own sexuality is the biggest thing to happen in the world of music in this century. As Tumblr user rotatingfloor () so eloquently put it: It doesn’t encourage women to take agency of their own sexuality as much as it says, “rest assured, some dude somewhere might think you’re worth ogling.”Įnter Nicki Minaj. Still, the song tells curvy women that they should embrace their beauty and their sexuality just because men like big butts. I am in no way trying to negate the important political undertones of “Baby Got Back.” Our culture’s Euro-centric (read: white) beauty standards can leave black women feeling unattractive and undesirable, and Sir Mix-A-Lot’s timeless ode to the prominent booty was his way of, in his own words, letting “the world know that we think these women are beautiful, not just objects.” If you’ve heard the self-proclaimed Queen of Rap’s latest bump, you’ve probably noticed that it borrows heavily from what might be everyone’s favorite song about the female derriere, Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” The concept of sampling in music is not a revolutionary one, but the way in which Nicki manages to take a classic anthem of objectification and turn it into a symbol of her own confidence and power is really something special. I want to talk specifically about her new song “Anaconda,” and how it just might be the most important piece of art produced by the modern world. My job today, and every day, is to convince you that Nicki Minaj is a huge power for good in this world. As a Nicki Minaj evangelist, it is my personal life mission to preach the gospel of Onika Tanya Maraj to every wayward soul I meet.
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