Nicki Minaj music video “Anaconda” created pop culture waves as soon as it was posted online. Within its first day out in the world, was the set of 19, 6 million people. It was a new record.
The video was loved, criticized and parodied, including the talk show queen Ellen DeGeneres, and so far it has been seen 488 million times on Youtube.
Still it was not nominated for best music video on MTV’s annual awards Video Music Awards. Something Nicki Minaj believes it could have been, if she looked different.
Taylor Swift took Tweets Nicki Minaj personal, possibly because she was nominated in the same price range with the song and video “Bad Blood. “
Also read: What was that all bodies were trying to tell us?
Breaker with body ideal
– She is lady in a male dominated world. Women have always been objects in the music industry. Nicki Minaj does the opposite. She takes complete control both over sexuality and body. In this way she creates a larger room for girls, says Kadra Yusuf about Nicki Minaj.
social commentator Kadra Yusuf think Nicki Minaj is right that she is treated differently than any of his colleagues. She understands Minaj reaction.
– It is sad, and I realize that she gets angry. She has a point. Because she does not fulfill the classical ideal of beauty, nor is any “American Sweetheart” as Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift, so she did not receive the same recognition, says Yusuf.
Strictly speaking, does not Nicky Minaj anything else in Anaconda video than many other female artists have done before her, says Yusuf.
– The difference is that Nicki Minaj is “slutshamet” ( disdainful of women because some believe they behaving shamefully, journ.anm. and seen as vulgar, much because she has a completely different body type than the classical ideal of beauty, where one must be white, tall, blonde and thin.
– It is time that equates different type female bodies. Having curves can also be an ideal of beauty, said Yusuf, who earlier this summer has debated the white and thin beauty ideal in Norwegian woman leaves.
Blowout: Nicki Minaj tweet also about how “white media” trying to get the case to be about a quarrel between herself and Taylor Swift, not the case is actually about. Photo: Chris Pizzello / AP
– Deep historical orientation
US AND THEM: – Constructions of identity is largely dependent on distinguishing between “us” and “the others”, something Minaj also does in one of his tweets, says fellow Kai Arne Hansen at the University. Photo: University in Oslo
Kai Arne Hansen is a research fellow at the Institute for Musicology at University of Oslo. He believes there is clearly a link between sexuality and ethnicity, and that it affects how the public may perceive different artists.
– Ethnicity plays a major role both for how artists construct images of themselves and how the public looks at artists. Stereotypes about ethnicity has a deep historical roots in Western culture, and can not be separated from beliefs about sexuality, gender identity and body, says Hansen, who has previously written thesis Hardly That Kind of Girl? – On Female Representations in Mainstream Pop Music Videos.
– Precisely why ethnicity is an important factor in the construction of identity, both for artists and audiences. At the same time I would say that Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj are perceived in different ways because they use different stylistic codes, be it visual or musical, which is also about music genres, says Hansen, who emphasizes that skin color is only an isolated aspect of ethnicity, and that the concept can also accommodate religion, geographic location and language.
Nominated for best music video
These videos was nominated:
Beyoncé – “7/11″
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood”
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”
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