Lol yeah
― The Reverend, Sunday, 24 August 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
From a gay male FB friend:
<i>Just watched Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' video. It's like a nuke dropped on the women's 'don't objectify me' movement. Nicky should just change her name to Dat Ass, as her transformation is now complete.<i/>
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 25 August 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
this did NOT blow up the crowd when played at afropunk; i saw several subgroups break out to TED talk it to death
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 August 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
lol at trying to picture that
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Monday, 25 August 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
i haven't seen people go nuts to anaconda, i feel like it's more a filler track in the build up to a song where the beat actually drops, good for building tension but not a release of its own
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 25 August 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
that is explicit
― nova, Monday, 25 August 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
flies up to #2 on the hot 100 this week due to streaming - her highest charting hit ever
thank u teenage boys
― prolego, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
they were streaming alright.
― how's life, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
they're gonna feel pretty dumb when they learn how she flipped their gaze
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
i have come round to this as dj/mixshow tool (ie it sounded p fun when westwood gave it a v quick spin)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
the breakdown got people pretty excited at the drake/lil wayne show in boston the other night
― maura, Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
just drake just sit onstage with a boner while they play the end of the song?
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
hahhaha no this was before the BATTLE ROYALE occurred
― maura, Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
papiconda vs weenus
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
papiconda vs. wheetus
― ra's al goole (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Prolego dude so far the only ppl into this (vid anyway)'re teenage girls and gay men ("sample" limited to here/aatwitter, so just maybe not accurate)
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
a+
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah i almost excelsiord that myself
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
you guys know that playing up to the male gaze and rejecting the male gaze are not mutually exclusive, right. the position of power that nicki does both those things from is the point. i for one love how she flips from "oh my god, look at her butt" to "stop looking at my ass" like they're both compatible! cuz she can and cuz they are.
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 August 2014 08:25 (nine years ago) link
you know that I get that you can make that argument in theory but that in practice a performer screaming "FUCK THE SKINNY BITCHES IN THE CLUB" over a cover song doesn't necessarily merit a vigorous debate of intention vs action, right?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 08:38 (nine years ago) link
and that arguing that nicki's objective is subverting power dynamics in a song where she is repeatedly stating that she's "on some dumb shit" is... well, maybe not disingenuous but at the least indicative of a very selective way of appreciating the work?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 08:42 (nine years ago) link
i mean bully to you for getting something positive out of tanaconda lex but this sounds DOA to me and it's primarily cause nicki's verses are not so good, the production is outstandingly lazy and the various young money tics throughout are maddening it's not so much that you're wrong so much as why bother in support of something this pedestrian
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 08:47 (nine years ago) link
plus i would add don't forget fart remix subverts the subversion of the subverting subversiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv--npievoI
― davey, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah, was really hoping that wouldn't show up here
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
Whatever your opinion of this tune this song does actually. seem to be a success. Why is that? Is it just the video or does the actual song have anything to do with it?
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
perfect storm: nicki, deathless sir mix track, catchy enough, papiconda, nicki's butt, teens, etc.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
it's the video
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
or that
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
actually "nicki's butt" is a more complete analysis since the song popped off the itunes downloads which in turn popped because of the single cover
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
the song is pretty weak, imo, those who say it's a build-up to nothing are otm, it doesn't actually go anywhere
also i think she's saying "i'm not some dumb shit" rather than "i'm on some dumb shit"
― marcos, Friday, 29 August 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
song sounded like a hit the first time i heard it over dodgy wifi in a remote town square in romania. it's a bit of a mess structurally but since when has that mattered
forks' argument basically = "i don't like this so why are you analysing it" - i'm not usually one to really conflate success with importance but i think in the current pop climate it's certainly pushing back against a few things in a healthy way, and the fact that men are wanking over it doesn't really change that
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 August 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
wtf of course she's saying "i'm on some dumb shit"
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
yep my mistake
― marcos, Friday, 29 August 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I like this song more every time I hear it but I like ice-t's "the girl tried to kill me" and other dumb shit like that
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
in the current pop climate it's certainly pushing back against a few things in a healthy way, and the fact that men are wanking over it doesn't really change that
new board description
this song is really bad
― ra's al goole (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
the first out-of-context thing that popped into my head after reading that sentence was "bronies in a nutshell"
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
it's not really good but it's not really bad either. lots of it really, really works. it's the kind of thing that only improves with ubiquity, too - an embarrassment if it flops, the kind of thing you cave to when you hear it in the wild a lot. a bit like "starships" in that regard!
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
okay I'm finally listening to this and this is some lazy mid-90s-Puffy-throwback shit
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
the video and the pre-release hype from the single cover both contributed to its success. it started climbing rhythmic and urban radio charts rather quickly basically from the get-go, so it's not *just* the video making this song a success.
― dyl, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
i'm generally skeezed out by overt sexuality/pornographic imagery in music (obviously this is my problem, not the artist's) & i can't really comment on whether this song is actually profound or subversive, but i like nicki's rapping on it
― example (crüt), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
xp think it's also the sir mix-a-lot sample. i mean fuckin EVERYBODY knows this tune. my uncle got married at age 50-something and his bride danced to that tune
― marcos, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
and my white brother-in-law who went to dartmouth knew every single word
i for one love how she flips from "oh my god, look at her butt" to "stop looking at my ass"
nothing about this song or video says "stop looking at my ass" at all. jesus this is some next level apologetics even for you lex
― een, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Personally, I prefered this's songs use of a "Baby Got Back" sample from earlier this year.
― MarkoP, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I like it, but I was kind of bummed when I heard it that it's just that tiny sample over and over and over and over. I was hoping for something a little more, idk, imaginative. Maybe that's the wrong word but anyway it was kind of boring
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
If anything the song could do with being filthier + more banging + less obviously cobbled together in 10mins.
nothing about this song or video says "stop looking at my ass" at all
I dunno, after a couple of minutes I got a bit bored and wanted to go and do something else.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 August 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
So it's like aversion therapy?
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
forks' argument basically = "i don't like this so why are you analysing it"
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure lex will be beyond delighted that he's being held accountable for my choice of words!
― example (crüt), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link