Made it halfway through... couldn't take anymore, thought I was going to scream from how awful the music was. Video, eh I can see why people are annoyed, I find it less offensive than the actual song.
I couldn't made it even past quarter... Meh, to the use of nazi imagery... The "music" was what put me off. I might try again later muted just to see the video.
I don't know, Omar the Former Arab Terrorist and I watched it late last night--while inebriated in a variety of ways--and we laughed our asses off.
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There's one young lady who's getting a first class ticket on the 8:08 to Spankerton!
I am very dissaprointed by you, Nicki.
(Watches 'Anaconda' again)
Ummm
I think I am getting old.... Did not enjoy that one bit...
No I'm pretty sure that just proves you're sane.
The music is terrible. While the nazi idea was not really in good taste it did not offend me.
Maybe she was trying to distract from her voice.
It clearly lacks the class and sophistication of anaconda.
I liked her before she became so commercial. Blah.
No I'm pretty sure that just proves you're sane.
All the way through the song all I could think was I should go listen to Salt &Pepper, they were a positive example of empowered female hip hop.
No I'm pretty sure that just proves you're sane.All the way through the song all I could think was I should go listen to Salt &Pepper, they were a positive example of empowered female hip hop.
Yup, I'd say they're the much better option.
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Salt and Pepa's here, and we're in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin' by day then at night working up a sweat
C'mon girls, let's go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Don't know whether it's empowering or not, but still pretty good.
Woah.
Hmm, not really my type of music...but trying to figure out why they were using that type of stuff in the video. It looks like they are making some sort of point with having only the "PURE" racial types, as per their song...
Which would go with the entire Black supremacy thing that's been going on for several decades.
The song itself...does it sound racist...yes...it does actually. However...without the imagery to go along with it, I don't think anyone would take it seriously as a racist type song.
Then again...what type of racism is it talking about...is it literal...or symbolic of something else.
Who knows...the lyrics were much more nasty than what I listen to. As I'm not really into that type of music, the above is my closest guess of the connection of the song and music...which could be completely off.
The irony here, is I don't think anyone would blink an eyelash at this song (as there have been other songs MUCH stronger on the point than this one) in regards to these without the imagery of the video...which is what most are talking about instead of the actual refrain of the song.
Nicki Minaj Video Director Admits Using Nazi-Inspired Imagery
Which is a pretty blah article title, but 's got some great lines such as,
"I didn't come up with the concept, but I'm very sorry and take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art."
Well, if Hollaback! can make racist anti-street harassment videos, I don't see why Nicki can't appropriate New Order's fascist schtick. I forgive you, Nicki.
Kreayshawn hollas at a young woman and then empowers the sisterhood to resist the capitalist fashion consortium.
It is a horribly racist song. After all, if you're not a) a rich n&$%%, b) a boss n#%%&, c) a fat b++#&... the prospects are pretty gloomy for you.
This has quickly become my favorite song/video of all time. Posted it twice to Facebook in 24 hours and will be looking for the cd as soon as I get a fat Xmas-time overtime check. I'm not sure if my favorite part is her sexy pout in the nail parlor or the reaction shots of the ladies at the hairdresser's.
[Shakes his ass]
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It's a smasher. I liked that bit too :)
Per the Nicki video, I didn't actually mind the music itself, though as Sissyl said, the lyrics are a bit er..., reading as they do like some sort of x-rated [insert qualification you take around the age of 16] English assignment.
"Pay attention, class! Now I want all you thick b**ches and bishops to write me 300 words on the subject, 'I never f***ed Nicki because...'"
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It's a smasher. I liked that bit too :)
Per the Nicki video, I didn't actually mind the music itself, though as Sissyl said, the lyrics are a bit er..., reading as they do like some sort of x-rated [insert qualification you take around the age of 16] English assignment.
"Pay attention, class! Now I want all you thick b**ches and bishops to write me 300 words on the subject, 'I never f***ed Nicki because...'"
"...my anaconda didn't want none of that. That b***h be cray-cray."
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She does spit some pretty simple rhymes...just like that Lil Wayne goofball. Rhyming 'only' with 'only' and 'f&%*ed up' with 'f&+&ed up' is both clever and thought-provoking...sigh. The imagery is the only thing she got...'imagery' being her using the only thing she knows how to use, the pout and the killer body.
You want to see a music video that makes you think about race, try M.I.A. - Born Free NSFW
the pout and the killer body
I forgive you, Nicki.
Attempts to redress the blatant gender imbalance of objectification in this thread
I think, from now on, it can be assumed that any link in this thread is not going to be SFW.
Yeah...Lil Wayne uses the only thing he can also...his tatted-up abs and that ridiculous grill. He knows hes not known for his intellect.
Both are reaching for low hanging fruit. Easy rhymes, sexy (or shocking) images, contagious beats (based on something familiar from the recent past). Its what pop music does...a person has to dig deeper to find something worth listening to. Most of the top10 of anything is like Nickelback, or Poison, or the Monkees, popmuzik has a time and place, it's just too easy to make.
Part of my rant is based on my jealousy, they both have money stacked to the roof. I wish I had half dat cash!
Looking through t3h Int4rw3bz, I found more stylish, classy examples of miss Minaj's work: Va va voom (which has a few utterly incomprehensible outfits), Pound the Alarm... She truly has an impressive... body of work.
It's obviously going well for her, and that's something to respect, I guess. Is it wrong of me to say she seems like a nice girl under all that makeup and all these poses and lyrics?
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Yeah...Lil Wayne uses the only thing he can also...his tatted-up abs and that ridiculous grill. He knows hes not known for his intellect.
Both are reaching for low hanging fruit. Easy rhymes, sexy (or shocking) images, contagious beats (based on something familiar from the recent past). Its what pop music does...a person has to dig deeper to find something worth listening to. Most of the top10 of anything is like Nickelback, or Poison, or the Monkees, popmuzik has a time and place, it's just too easy to make.
Part of my rant is based on my jealousy, they both have money stacked to the roof. I wish I had half dat cash!
Don't go dissing the Monkees - they had Carole King as one of their songwriters!
It's obviously going well for her, and that's something to respect, I guess. Is it wrong of me to say she seems like a nice girl under all that makeup and all these poses and lyrics?
Not at all.
Real country-ass [redacted], let me play with his rifle
[Redacted] put his ass to sleep, now he's calling me Nyquil
F$+*in' poetry, I tell ya.
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It's obviously going well for her, and that's something to respect, I guess. Is it wrong of me to say she seems like a nice girl under all that makeup and all these poses and lyrics?Not at all.
** spoiler omitted **
F*!+in' poetry, I tell ya.
I like the psychedelic gangsta sex Barbie image she has; most things Minaj related get a juicy big PiPu thumbs-up from me, although I prefer the last couple to the sort of mainstream-y dance stuff she's done (like Va Va Voom or Starships, etc). The videos are normally mental, which is v. good.
Do I spend a lot of time listening to this stuff? Nope, but let's face it, NM is a lot more appealing to watch on screen than, say, Robert Fripp, though YMMV, of course.
Where's that thumb been?!?
or Poison,
You know, I never thought in a million years that I would ever link a Poison song, but it was big when I was in [insert year of schooling that you would be attending the year your testicles begin to drop and you occasionally wake up in puddles of effluvia (again, sorry for the rampant gender imbalance; ladies and others are invited to testify to their own physiological experiences)] and I did grow up in f%!#ing New Hampshire:
EDIT: After watching the first 42 seconds, I decided to change my hat.
For the right to be lazy!
Socialism will get everybody laid!
Vive le Galt!!!
And now that I've got the hat on...
Comrade Zizek on Fascist Imagery and Rammstein
I have no idea whether the professor is on to something or not; I've never listened to Rammstein.
re: Poison. I still like the title track, "Look What the Cat Dragged In" ...I went to bed too late and got up too soon, poor heads still spinnin' from too much booze...
That's how I spent some of my late teens thru mid 20s.
"Let Me Go To the Show" is fun pop-rock with a cool guitar solo sound "You heard yr mother, turn that s+@& off!" lol.
And "Fallen Angel" by them too, tells a poignant story of youth gone wild...o wait thats Skid Row!
"Nothin But a Good Time" was fun too!
Just watched Va Va Voom...uh YES to the 'evil queen' black dress getup!
[Singing to himself]
Johnny used to work on the docks...
It may amuse some to learn that We're Not Gonna Take It has replaced Solidarity Forever as the song of choice for American picket lines and labor rallies, although at the last one I attended, I heard both.
...lolz version... "Johnny just threw up on the docks"
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Where's that thumb been?!?
The question is (or the question I'm usually asked is*), where do you want it to go?
Since no one apparently wants to continue discussing fascist imagery in popular music, nor the proletarian politics of cock-rock,
Legendary Fripp & Eno concert from 1975 will finally see official release