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Originally posted by lonnie
They are supposed to base decisions on videos and not the lyrics, no?
Wrecking Ball wasn't a great video, it didn't deserve to win but it did. Anaconda in my opinion is a better video than WB.
7/11 getting a nom doesn't surprise me, it's a better video than most nominees in the category.
But what you're basically doing is pointing out noms for black artists in an effort to prove that there's no form of favourism which is basically wrong.
There is favourism and subtle discrimination.
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I made this post 2 pages ago but here
...Barbz and Katy Kats need to stop blindly stanning & stop pretending like the tweet wasn't about her just cause she didn't @ her. She RT'd tweets about Taylor getting Kanye'd again and the only possible people she could have been talking about with record braking videos showing skinny women were Taylor and Miley and this was probably directed at both of them.
Taylor didn't play around like Nicki, she straight up asked her why she's attacking her but Nicki backtracked. It's ridiculous to say that only skinny women get rewarded when Beyonce was nominated for VOTY and they have similar body types (except Bey is real).
I fail to see how showing yourself naked is meant to be empowering for anyone. If anything, it should be insulting because this makes women look like sex objects. No one is gonna look at Anaconda and think "wow, what a brave girl, making a bold statement with this artistic video". She's become a joke, a novelty act. No one takes her seriously and she deserves every bit of hate she receives.
Pulling the race card was ridiculous. The amount of black artists nominated this year (I'm not gonna name them all). She got 3 nominations but she's simply ungrateful. You can not compare this to actually iconic and remembered songs like Toxic, Wrecking Ball and Blurred Lines. Anaconda was an attempt to save the Pinkprint era after the lead single flopped. After a year, Anaconda is no longer in the Top 500 on iTunes (while other songs released at the same time like Shake It Off are at #65) and the video views fell flat. Just look at how front loaded they were
If the VMAs are all about popularity then Roar was 10 times bigger and ten times more iconic but it didn't get a single nomination. She needs to get over it because none of her arguments make sense. The only reason the media is on her side is because she called them out on being racist and always showing her as the 'angry black woman' (which in this case she is). If they favored Taylor then she'd prove them right and cry racism some more.
Her 'snub' has nothing to do with her race. The video is not artistic and it's nowhere near as good as Nicki makes it out to be. It just shows her touching girls' asses, twerking, eating bananas, putting whipped cream on her **** and giving lap dances.
