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The Fuck?

moniquill:

samieguuuurl:

Nicki Minaj’s rendition of “I Feel Pretty” makes me want to gouge my eyes out and then tare my ears off.

And the fuck is she doing now? DUDE…just stick to singing…you can’t rap…

You wouldn’t know what I’m talking about unless you’re watching the Grammy’s this very second. If you wanna know I suggest you turn on your TV or google it…but then again I don’t exactly recommend it…

Dear God why does everyone love her music?

I don’t really listen to her music as it’s mostly outside of my genre interest, but let me tell you why I love Nicki as an artist and as a human being. Because of this:

“When I started making those weird voices, a lot of people told me how whack it was,” she says, naming a few label higher-ups who warned her against straying too far from tradition. “‘What the fuck are you doing?’ they’d say. ‘Why do you sound like that? That doesn’t sound sexy to me.’ And then I started saying, ‘Oh, that’s not sexy to you? Good. I’m going to do it more. Maybe I don’t want to be sexy to you today.” For the first time since entering the room, Minaj loses her cool. Her voice goes up an octave, words run together in breathless exasperation, her lips purse, and she ever-so-slightly rolls her neck to suggest the quiet storm often obscured beneath the placid face of a wide-eyed princess.”

Watch this and tell me that this is not a voice that we NEED in the top tier of social media aimed at young people.

“When I am assertive, I’m a bitch. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He bossed up. No negative connotation behind ‘bossed up.’ But lots of negative connotation behind being a bitch. Donald Trump can say, ‘You’re fired.’ Let Martha Stewart run her company the same way and be the same way. [People will say] ‘F—-ing old evil bitch!’ But Donald Trump, he gets to hang out with young bitches and have 50 different wives and just be cool. ‘Oh, Donald, we love you, Donald Trump!’”

“When you’re a girl, you have to be everything. You have to be dope at what you do but you have to be super sweet and you have to be sexy and you have to be this, you have to be that, and you have to be nice,” she says. “It’s like, ‘I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human being.’ “

Oh and also steampunk with transhumanist themes.

i didn’t watch the grammys, but i’ve already seen several tweets about how black history month is over now because of her and i just can’t get behind any line of thought that lays the onus of black folk at the feet of black women who don’t confirm to middle class notions of respectability properly.

and i also feel like ppl are less patient with artistic experimentation when black people, especially women, do it. there’s a reason why diana ross is remembered and lionized and Betty Davis and Millie Jackson aren’t, or at least not to the same institutional degree.

bolded fof realness and truth. i am personally a huge nicki fan. i’m going to go to sleep, wake up, and rewatch the performance. collect all my thoughts about it. i love it already on the basis of the pop culture references in abundance but i want to pick it apart.

one thing i already think…it was nick’s night to be the provocateur. she could have gone with a more toned down party track (super bass comes to mind) single off the last album but she decided to go a different route. i’m excited about what’s going to happen on the next album. i would love if she did an extremely dark horror influenced album. i’m personally really interested in the embracing of the abject/afro-futurist themes by mainstream rap/r&b artist (kanye, rihanna, wayne,) these days.

i think the comments about the ruining of Black history month are more telling about how uncomfortable our folks can be when we let our weird come out in public (i.e. in front of white people.)

lastly, the notion of a reparative/alternative read on the exorcist is really interesting to me. i think taking a part people’s anxieties about uncontrolled and uncontrollable girls/women (who are represented in horror as possessed by satan) is a dope dope move. and to me that’s what the performance was about.

i’ll probably do a paper on this. maybe submit it to a journal.

thanks mama nicki.

(via wickedetiquette)

Source: samieguuuurl