[atishvaze]

Originally posted by Haburo

wouldn't be surprised if vevo did a lil something something to make sure nicki's record would be broken tbh but well done to all 27432 people in her video xx

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[Opacho]

Queen of purity, clothes, and talent.
Congrats!

[B'Day]

Originally posted by slw84

I'm not sure people are shaming as they are pointing out the obvious reasons. The video was lead by a major viral controversy with the single cover and then a few days prior a snippet of the video...was it her working out with 2lb weights, no. It was her clapping her butt cheeks.
I think some are trying to shade it but not shame it. I think people are just shading the fact that Miley and Nicki used sex and Nicki used a body part that was enhanced to align it with the idea that it's cheap as opposed to Taylor who just had a great idea and smart marketing without having to go down the route that people call more tactic/stunt driven. Smart/savvy marketing is not hte same as stunts and tactics. People associate smart marketing with taylor's video and stunts and tactics with Nicki and Mileys...and for valid reasons.

Indicating that Nicki is used her 'ass' (funny how they said ass to relate to a sexual context) is somewhat negative. Fair enough Taylor had a 'great idea' and 'smart marketing' but one could say Nicki did it all by herself (excluding Drake ) rather than Taylor Swift who used celebrities with big fanbases such as Cara Delevinge however you spell it or Selena Gomez and obviously a new remix from Kendrick Lamar creating hype. It's really subjective here but they broke the record for a (positive) reason.

[Squall]

I KNEW IT, I SAID 20M

[Mariano]

People why are you playing new ? Omg the acting in this thread

It took VEVO days to update Nicki's views and announce that she broke the record, just like with Bad Blood...

Furthermore the fact that some of you are like "but it only showed 18M" like DON'T tell me that just now you are understanding how vevo/youtube views work ......

Anyway when people were saying "Nicki did it only because of the controversy / **** " y'all were like "the excuses" and now y'all do the same to Taylor "she did it with an army" well WHO ELSE could've gathered all these people in one video ? No one so still Taylor >>>>>>>>

[slw84]

Originally posted by Aatthew

Serving up stats that have no real purpose in this discussion considering I was discussing how and why Nicki was able to break the record like she did as well as how and why Taylor was able to break the record like she did.

Downplaying "Anaconda"'s success to just its music video is stupid and wrong. Nicki was in a situation at the time of releasing that video that allowed her to reach an audience that many of her other just as sexual music videos have failed to reach. That's the point I was trying to make, but it's whatever. I'm done trying. I'll allow y'all to be petty in peace.

LOL. I think the poster brought up that stat to show that the song was not what drove the views moreso than nicki clapping her butt cheeks and using sex...at least that's what i thought he was trying to bring up as a point. I'm not sure your point regarding reaching an audience when you claimed Miley wasn't in that category. They both released visuals prior to the video showing overt sexual imagery so that anyone that wants to gawk will do so...the difference was that Miley's song actually sold well and did well on radio as it was a great song to begin with. I know you are passionate but it's not about any sexual music video failed to reach that. Any sexual music video did not have an album cover with the artist exposing her perfectly delicious (yeah I said it) looking butt followed up with a snippet prior to the video release clappings her but cheeks and slapping someone else's butt cheeks.

Essentially both Nicki and Taylor had savvy marketing tools to promote their new video.
It's just one chose to use ideas that people align with stunts/gimmicks/tactics while the other use a platform that wasn't used like that before and was seemingly just utilizing an amazing opportunity...with her integrity tightly secured.

That's all.

[YR.]

Congrats queen of pop.

And yes, it takes days for them to announce the record because they have to properly count the views

[revel8]

Congrats to Taylor! I didn't even consider this was a realistic possibility.

I saw it on my twitter timeline last night but thought it was wrong!

From someone who attended Taylor's concert in Louisiana last night

autumn @autumn13_ · 8 hrs 8 hours ago

Taylor told us tonight, vevo called her right before the show and said bad blood the music video broke the record
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New Queen of Vevo!

Glad she got the record. The way that youtube views are increasing a lot in the last few years would indicate that this record will keep on being broken. Awesome that Taylor has it, at least for a whlie.

[Madonno]

QUEEN

[Crazy kid]

Congrats Taylor

[♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚]

****ing QUEEN OF POP YAS BITCH

[Price of Fame]

Good for her!

I wish it was Blank Space that broke this record though, dd.

[NEZ]

I think Taylor has finally made me a fan after fighting it for so long. Shake it off was a bop and blank space was amazing.(still is) but I completely ignored style until a couple weeks ago I changed the radio station at work and style kept playing over and over again and I just realized how amazing it is. and I didn't care for bad blood before either but now that it's a single I love it now too. Rihanna needs to hurry up before I become a swiftie. JK that could never happen! Rihanna is the queen of pop.

[♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚]

Her star power is just ****ing out of this world

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[slw84]

Originally posted by Haburo

wouldn't be surprised if vevo did a lil something something to make sure nicki's record would be broken tbh but well done to all 27432 people in her video xx

LOL, Tidal's impact.

Originally posted by B'Day

Indicating that Nicki is used her 'ass' (funny how they said ass to relate to a sexual context) is somewhat negative. Fair enough Taylor had a 'great idea' and 'smart marketing' but one could say Nicki did it all by herself (excluding Drake ) rather than Taylor Swift who used celebrities with big fanbases such as Cara Delevinge however you spell it or Selena Gomez and obviously a new remix from Kendrick Lamar creating hype. It's really subjective here but they broke the record for a (positive) reason.

Hmm...well, I think it is because outside of wigs and zany outfits (which Nicki doesn't do as much anymore) Nicki is known for her enhanced bottom which is another reason the song anaconda aligned with Nicki's brand
Discounting that she did a song called dance (@zz)

It really sums it up this way for me
Both had clever marketing...one is just aligned with stunts/tactics and comes off low brow and desperate to many but even people that believe this would still gawk just like they do in a car crash.

Whereas one utilized a platform in a way that either wasn't done before or is rarely done and won.
People are still using the celebrities excuse with taylor. Mess.
But discounting that Taylor's marketing pre-release had to do with the kill bill esque imagery of the characters while Nicki released a controversial and viral single cover exposing her butt cheeks to create a buzz and then followed it up with snippets to include her clapping her butt cheeks and smacking a random's bottom as if it were an instrument.

If we are using one using "celebrity" we could also point out the other's tactics.
Bottom line: both had clever marketing...one just seems smart and high brow. That's all.

Originally posted by Mariano

People why are you playing knew ? Omg the acting in this thread

It took VEVO days to update Nicki's views and announce that she broke the record, just like with Bad Blood...

I have to admit i was wary at first because i assumed the news from anaconda happened the following day but apparently it took 3 days as well.

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[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by NEZ

I think Taylor has finally made me a fan after fighting it for so long. Shake it off was a bop and blank space was amazing.(still is) but I completely ignored style until a couple weeks ago I changed the radio station at work and style kept playing over and over again and I just realized how amazing it is. and I didn't care for bad blood before either but now that it's a single I love it now too. Rihanna needs to hurry up before I become a swiftie. JK that could never happen! Rihanna is the queen of pop.

Join NewRihannastan, Cheers, Era etc in the Swifty Navy

[avi]

umm wasnt it 18.1 m yesterday? more like who pays the most to vevo for getting the record now smh

[avi]

why cant youtube just properly work on a kind of software that shows/update views quickly every 1 hr or so.. this shady shi* is annoying.. lets see who buys the record next