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Celeb News: Taylor's ego isn't bigger than the Nicki Minaj debate.
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Taylor's ego isn't bigger than the Nicki Minaj debate.
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“If I was a different ‘kind’ of artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year”. And there, in a single tweet on Tuesday, rapper Nicki Minaj kicked off a conversation about race, feminism, and the music industry that might have been ignored had it not been derailed by the planet’s biggest pop star, Taylor Swift.
“When the ‘other’ girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination,” wrote Minaj. Her point is one about the unspoken bias and sometimes out-and-out racism of an industry that has profited from the talent of black artists without giving them their dues. Or, at the very least, a trophy of an astronaut from MTV.
Swift, possibly unable to imagine a debate bigger than her or her ego, took instant personal offence and tweeted, in po-faced hurt: “@NICKIMINAJ I’ve done nothing but love & support you. It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot.”
Yet, instead of listening to Minaj, her supposed friend and collaborator, Swift responded: “@NICKIMINAJ If I win, please come up with me!! You’re invited to any stage I’m ever on.” A tweet that, at best, could be read as patronising and ignorant; at worst, vacuous and self-absorbed.
The broader point Minaj is making is clear: throughout music history, black women aren’t recognised in the popular music canon in the same way their white counterparts are. As Minaj tweeted: “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year … I’m not always confident. Just tired. Black women influence pop culture so much but are rarely rewarded for it.”
Yet without Swift making the story about her, Minaj’s tweets would likely have been talked about by sections of Twitter, music journalists and fans, before everyone shrugged and moved on. The wider reporting of the story has since twisted what is a valid conversation – about what makes a white artist outstanding, and why a black artist isn’t allowed to compete on the same terms. The coverage has reduced the debate to a catfight between two massive female stars, where Swift is the winner, taking down another woman who needs to know her place. It is insidious and crass.
In this retelling, Minaj is archetyped as the angry black woman, while Swift is bizarrely cast as the feminist hero. Pictures – deliberately selected, remember – to illustrate the story online by Glamour magazine, the Daily Mail, and Entertainment Weekly (some of them since deleted) show Minaj pulling faces or looking daft, or simply focus on her bum. The underlying message is that she’s wacky, unhinged and clearly the hyper-sensitive loser here. Ones of Swift, by comparison, show her looking soft, delicate and “unthreatening” – the victim under attack.
It didn’t stop at picture editing. Consider the bias on show when Glamour tweeted its take: “@taylorswift13 shut down @NICKIMINAJ on Twitter and it was WONDERFUL.” A sentence that embodies everything wrong with white feminism’s refusal to acknowledge, let alone understand, that unless “the struggle” in 2015 is intersectional (you know, taking in priorities that aren’t just about white women in the west serving white women in the west), it is irrelevant. To no credit, Glamour later retweeted the story as: “@taylorswift13 and @NICKIMINAJ embroiled in Twitter row.”
As blogger oneofthosefaces put it: “Miley spent the whole of 2013 building an adult career on the back of strapping on a fake booty and twerking her way to stratospheric success. If you rundown Nicki’s tweets and retweets, she was drawing parallels, not suggesting any of this year’s nominees had taken her spot. Her argument was specifically about the difference in the way white bodies and black bodies are portrayed. It’s an argument she’s made before, when she compared ‘acceptable’ white girls in bikinis to her ‘unacceptable’ Anaconda cover art.”
To put it another way: Minaj’s arse is considered too sexual, too crude, too shockingly unpalatable when she deliberately and provocatively, puts it on show, whereas the same pose struck by white models is taken as sexy, friendly and OK.
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Full: http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...lor-swifts-ego
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Fix the img zoom
Lemme read this article hmm
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Fix the img zoom
Lemme read this article hmm
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Fixed.
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As blogger oneofthosefaces put it: “Miley spent the whole of 2013 building an adult career on the back of strapping on a fake booty
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we all know that never happened, how am i supposed to trust the rest of this article? 
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Excuse me? the one who has THE BIG EGO it's obviously Nicki who thinks that just because she shakes her ass in Anaconda and eat some hamburgers in a video EXCLUSIVE on Tidal she deserves to be nominated 
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we all know that never happened, how am i supposed to trust the rest of this article? |
That did happen wth?
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Exactly. I still don't understand why anyone is sympathizing with taylor.  In all her feuds, she is portrayed the exact same way, which is annoying when she's the one who usually starts things.
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That did happen wth?
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oh it actually did 
regarless she most definitely didn't "make a career" of of it so he still lied
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Taylor is getting dragged right and left, interesting.
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“@NICKIMINAJ If I win, please come up with me!! You’re invited to any stage I’m ever on.” A tweet that, at best, could be read as patronising and ignorant; at worst, vacuous and self-absorbed.
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No lie spotted.
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This entire ordeal is being blown out of proportion
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Both have big egos, Onika's is just way bigger.
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Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds
oh it actually did
regarless she most definitely didn't "make a career" of of it so he still lied |
True.
Anyways I'm over this feud. Both of them are kinda petty, Taylor less so. Nicki did too much she's just salty af her video wasn't nominated for VOTY and Taylor came for Nicki (though to be fair the tweet was ambiguous) and she shouldn't have. Where she really messed up was accusing Nicki of women on women violence like not from you honey. This feud is already old
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Exactly. I still don't understand why anyone is sympathizing with taylor. In all her feuds, she is portrayed the exact same way, which is annoying when she's the one who usually starts things. |
So by your logic she was the one who body shamed a VOTY nominee because she didn't get one and was butthurt about that to pull up the race card and then sexism ******** etc? 
I don't care about any other feud but about yesterday's one she was on the right.
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