Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

they're gonna feel pretty dumb when they learn how she flipped their gaze

i have come round to this as dj/mixshow tool (ie it sounded p fun when westwood gave it a v quick spin)

the breakdown got people pretty excited at the drake/lil wayne show in boston the other night

just drake just sit onstage with a boner while they play the end of the song?

hahhaha no this was before the BATTLE ROYALE occurred

papiconda vs weenus

papiconda vs. wheetus

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)

they're gonna feel pretty dumb when they learn how she flipped their gaze

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

a+

yeah i almost excelsiord that myself

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.

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?

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?

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

plus i would add don't forget fart remix subverts the subversion of the subverting subversiveness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv--npievoI

yeah, was really hoping that wouldn't show up here

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?

perfect storm: nicki, deathless sir mix track, catchy enough, papiconda, nicki's butt, teens, etc.

it's the video

or that

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

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"

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

wtf of course she's saying "i'm on some dumb shit"

yep my mistake

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

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

the first out-of-context thing that popped into my head after reading that sentence was "bronies in a nutshell"

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!

okay I'm finally listening to this and this is some lazy mid-90s-Puffy-throwback shit

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.

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

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

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

Personally, I prefered this's songs use of a "Baby Got Back" sample from earlier this year.

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

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.

I dunno, after a couple of minutes I got a bit bored and wanted to go and do something else.

So it's like aversion therapy?

forks' argument basically = "i don't like this so why are you analysing it"

i'm sure lex will be beyond delighted that he's being held accountable for my choice of words!

the hot 100 points are mostly because of the video

Following the release of its video on Aug. 19, "Anaconda" makes a 42-1 lunge on Streaming Songs with a 1,287 percent surge to 32.1 million streams; 95 percent of its total is from Vevo on YouTube. The overall sum is the highest since Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" drew 36.4 million streams (Sept. 28, 2013) following the first full week after its video premiered. The greatest streaming total since the chart launched on March 2, 2013, and the only other song (in addition to "Wrecking Ball") to tally more weekly streams than "Anaconda": Baauer's "Shake" peaked with 103 million (powered heavily by user-generated clips featuring the song's audio) the week that the survey debuted.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6229439/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-no-1-hot-100-nicki-minaj-anaconda

like it probably would have been top 10, but definitely not ahead of the other song about butts in the top 5, without the video

A song has to have a popular video to go #1 these days, right?

Meanwhile in Canada, it only got as high as 20 while "All About That Bass" took the number 2 spot.

How do the Canadian charts incorporate YouTube views?

it doesn't have to have a popular video necessarily, but being on youtube/vevo definitely helps, as they are the #1 streaming-music source in the us

crut, i wasn't holding lex responsible for your words, but without putting your our anybody else's words in his mouth, I'm gathering he thinks there's something redemptive/meaningful going on with this track... and i've heard the same from a few other cultural critics but not had it explained, sans video, in a way that i follow

this song is not interesting or fun or charming and if it's feminist, it's only in a negative sense of "flipping" tropes and doesn't model any kind of appealing view of gender dynamics. "fuck the skinny bitches in the club", seriously?