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Discussion: Why is media siding with Nicki?
Member Since: 11/20/2010
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Janet said it best: One minute they love you, the next they try to destroy you.
Taylor's been riding a good wave. They been waiting on her to slip. An artists fall from,grace is always a big headline. It won't last long though.
Also with all this race and -ism talking in general in America the news will eat it up too.
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because despite what white gay teenagers think she is right
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by SebaMonster
ATRL doesn't care about what Nicki said, they just want her to shut up like other celebrities. They hate it when celebrities act like regular people.
Those publications realize that there's some truth in her tweets.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Like others said, Nicki had a point. I do think that Nicki's first tweet wasn't explicit enough that she was talking about a race issue - it appeared to be an attack on Taylor, when it wasn't once Nicki explained the tweet in more depth. I can understand why Taylor had interpreted the tweet how she did though, I probably would have done the same as well.
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Member Since: 9/9/2011
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Originally posted by Obsession
Nicki started a discussion on a topic (black female sexuality being seen as vulgar and offensive in comparison to white female sexuality) that Taylor took offense to because the shoe fits.
Taylor's idea of feminism is that of one-track minded white feminism, and she's eager to pull out the females should support each other card despite being fresh off a hit single built on a feud with a fellow pop star.
People with COMMON SENSE and a sliver of intelligence will realize Taylor was 100% wrong to hijack a conversation about an issue that had nothing to do with her. NO, Nicki did NOT call her out - she did not mention Taylor's name; Taylor took offense because YES, she benefits from that privilege and as most privileged people do in the face of being called out, she tried to turn the conversation into one where Nicki was the wrong party.
Y'all will sit down here and defend Taylor to the pearly gates, because she's putting out good pop music and y'all are internally racist af.
But you know, y'all do y'all.
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Completely agree.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by alestevens
It's weird because most media outlets are siding with Nicki, and then you scroll through their comments section and most posters sing a different tune. I mean, i just saw an article on this from allhiphop.com and the comments were dragging Nicki through the mud
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Exactly.
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ATRL Contributor
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I thought this whole thing started because the media was on Taylor's side
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Member Since: 6/30/2012
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They don't Onika to use her 100th race card.
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Member Since: 9/9/2011
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Anyone who uses "race card" is ignorant.
And people need to stop mentioning Beyonce's name considering the fact that she is literally the ONLY black female artist that's praised in mainstream media to support the false idea of racial progress.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by X/O/X/O
Nicki: *doesn't get nominated for VOTY, despite plenty of other nominations"
Nicki: "It was successful! It deserves a VMA!"
Nicki: "Skinny white girls get nommed but I don't?"
Taylor, the only "skinny white girl" nominated: "I love you. Why?"
Nicki: "RACISM"
Nicki: "SEXISM"
Nicki: "STOP ATTACKING ME"
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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funny how white media is riding nicki's dick, but black media is more unbiased and telling the story as it is, oh and the comments......
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Originally posted by liferekindled
Anyone who uses "race card" is ignorant.
And people need to stop mentioning Beyonce's name considering the fact that she is literally the ONLY black female artist that's praised in mainstream media to support the false idea of racial progress.
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THIS! Beyonce is literally used an excuse just so media and music cannot be deemed as racist. But has anyone noticed in more recent time no women of color have had much success outside of Nicki, Bey or Rih? And even now Nicki is snubbed, asks why, and is basically told to shut up. It's like they're trying to smudge them out completely.
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Cause she pulled the race card. These liberal publications wouldn't go against that, SJW would be the first to scream "RACSIME!!!!" at them
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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Black privilege, who would have thought such a term become reality.
The western press in the internet age are the pits.
Four black successful artists getting a nomination and she thinks one slim artist is to blame for? The nerve.
That's I assume, please correct me if I'm wrong, more like black ignorance, because what should say all the Latin or Asian artists.
What has the black media to say about this?
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Nat A
Exactly.
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I mean:
http://allhiphop.com/2015/07/21/tayl...a-nominations/
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Originally posted by Top Voted comments on allhiphop.com
1. "Maybe race has nothing do with this and your videos are just plain *******? No that never crosses anyones mind."
2. "So, with so many people talking about the racial angle, I took a quick search about the VMAs history and came up with a list of blacks that have won MTV's top "Video of the Year" award, the same one Nicki is complaining about not being nominated for. What I discovered was that, not only have a lot of blacks won them, not only have a lot of rappers won them, not only have a lot of Black women won them...........But there have been multiple Black Female rappers that have won them
TLC - "Wateralls"
Lauren Hill - "Doo Wop"
Outkast - "Hey Ya"
Missy Elliot - "Work It"
Rihanna/Jay Z - "Umbrella"
Beyonce - "Single Ladies"
Rihanna "We Found Love"
So, what exactly is her complaint about again?? Maybe next time you want to get a nomination you should do like Lauren & Missy and make a video with some substance or creativity to it"
3. "Wait a ****in' minute. The Analconda video deserves praise? For what? spreading poison to little Black girls that Hoe play is okay? I mean I'm a Black man first but c'mob fan, I gotta go with White Power on this one. I would rather my Black daughter follow in Taylor Swift's shoes than Nicki Minaj. And much respect to Nicki, but nah her music ain't about **** but ********."
4. "WHY'S NICKI COMPLAINING ABOUT SLIM BODIES? TRICK, YOU HAD A SLIM BODY TOO BEFORE THE IMPLANTS."
5. "Lil Kim won 3 vmas
Missy Won 7
Aaliyah won 3
... the list goes on! nicki is just garbage. We can say the same about her winning BET awards, now that is a snub, she wins the same categories every year and there are younger and actual talent out there (Tink, Tiffany Foxx, DejLoaf, Siya, Nyemiah, Bia, Rapsody, Snow tha product) . She wants people kissing her ass and she's so above herself. Make quality music then you would win something other than a BET award dumb ass. For goodness sake, there is a michael jackson award on the vmas... She salty noone is kissing her ass and Lil' Kim did say this was going to happen, Nicki throwing shade, deny it, cause a bunch of drama."
6. "There's a lot about Race, don't get it twisted...BUT this wasn't one of them! It was a Sir-Mix-A-Lot song remixed for the ratchett chicks of today! Nothing special about that video at all! Taylor just makes and puts out more creative stuff. She put together females of all races together in that video as superheroes. Nicki's video is about Ass, D**ks, and Ass. She knows what she's doing."
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They had a field day with her
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ATRL Contributor
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Because Nicki is right and Taylor is wrong. Simple.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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More like "Why is ATRL sided with Taylor?" And the answer is ATRLers stan for people with success and abandon them as soon as they have no use.
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Member Since: 5/19/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by ejordanjr07
They are scared to be called racist.
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This.
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