Celeb News: Nicki is an icon for feminism.

Willy.

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Nicki Minaj called Miley Cyrus a bitch at the MTV VMAs last weekend after Cyrus had accused the rapper of being “not very polite”.

Meanwhile, a French artist and rising star called Camille Henrot has just released a series of evocative drawings inspired by the rapper that are, in fact, decidedly polite.

Minaj may seem a shocking muse for delicate drawings that resemble a cross between Matisse (in style) and Kandinsky (in their translation of music to lines on a page). But Henrot has reworked the video Anaconda – which notoriously missed out on a VMA nomination and started a Twitter battle with Taylor Swift – into a piece of social commentary that’s set to go on show at Yarat contemporary art centre.

Minaj’s video for Anaconda pretty much broke the internet in 2014. Echoes of “she’s taken it too far” met accusations of ****-shaming as millions watched her gyrate, greased up and scantily clad, while she decorated her bosom with whipped cream.

Henrot says: “I was struck by how radical and majestic it was. It didn’t seem particularly sexy to me. It seems more like a statement on forgetting stereotypes and embracing yourself. It is vulgar, but it is beautiful.”

In her new work, the elegant line drawings inspired by the sweatiest, most sexualised scenes from Minaj’s video play with the ghosts of colonialism and racial stereotyping in contemporary culture. Henrot explains: “I like to think she created Anaconda to evoke criticism. She has abused the typical ‘black music-video girl’ archetype to the very end, to catch attention and create hate – if only so we too can realise our aversion to the sexualisation of women.”

“I love the scene when she is working out in a gym in the jungle,” says Henrot, “and the ridiculousness of it all. I think she is deliberately likening herself to a Barbie, and [referencing] the fastidiousness of being plastic and fake. She’s making herself a caricature of what people want her to be.” So this is a feminist statement? “Yes, of course. Nicki Minaj is a feminist icon.”

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddes...nist-art#img-1

"My Anaconda Don't"

"He Keep Telling Me It’s Real", 2015.

careerfatality

atrl is messy today..

Willy.

Fixed.

Notorious MINAJ

WIlly now you know what

CandyBling

6 Apple St

I'm sorry but what the **** is that in the OP. Is that artpop?

lovecatt

yogosans14

I don't get it

Grown K

aloirt

Okay, that artwork needs to go. No one is here for labias.

AMENHOOKER

onna

Stevie

Miley: Nicki isn't too kind.

Nicki: Calls Miley a "bitch".

The feminist icon of our generation, ladies and gents.

Haburo

maybe at a reach... Missy made it to the top of hip hop without shaking her ass though

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Originally posted by Stevie

Miley: Nicki isn't too kind.

Nicki: Calls Miley a "bitch".

The feminist icon of our generation, ladies and gents.

rewatch the clip & you'll see her laughing before she finishes calling miley out

not only was it staged, but she corpsed too

Rogue

I don't agree at all.

Aciid

Ok next.

Atlas

Those pictures

Mariano

She literally just called Miley a bitch infront of 10M viewers and Miley's own family.

Bye

Grown K

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Originally posted by Stevie

Miley: Nicki isn't too kind.

Nicki: Calls Miley a "bitch".

The feminist icon of our generation, ladies and gents.

The fact that you believed that was real proves that she's a good actress.
She should be on the next season of American Horror Story.

Jay L

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Originally posted by Haburo

maybe at a reach... Missy made it to the top of hip hop without shaking her ass though