The song Anaconda, by Nicki Minaj has created a hurricane of controversy. Many people believe that this song can be taken two different ways, from the view of feminism or that of objectifying women. I believe that Nicki Minaj is showing what is thought of as the social norms for women in this day and age because within her lyrics she talks about how women are being objectified sexually, yet she uses this to her advantage to get what she wants. Since the beginning of the 1900’s the role of women has changed in a big way. For most of the 1900’s women were thought of as housewives whose main role was to please their husbands. The changes in modern technology, such as the building of household items like dishwashers; washing machines, etc. …show more content…
An anaconda is a symbol for a male’s penis. Within the first three lines it talks about how men do not like women unless that have a big butt when she writes, “My Anaconda don’t… My Anaconda don’t… My Anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hun” This song was number two on iTunes’ top ten list. This song made the most profit of any female singer until Taylor Swift came out with the song, Bad Blood. Nicki Minaj is the most well known female rapper and the most famous. People of all ages are able to hear this song, but it targets mainly teens and young adults. As the song continues she talks about how people glorify her body by saying, “Oh my gosh, look at her butt… Oh my gosh, look at her butt… Oh my gosh, look at her butt… Look at her butt (Look at her butt)” Women’s sexuality today is very different than from the past; many women are open with their bodies. Today you see women wearing very revealing clothing, whereas back in the day women were constricted as to what they could wear. Furthermore, she talks about how that …show more content…
She talks about how men are their sex toys and are able to manipulate them. That is why I believe this song is so different. Nicki is showing the power of influence that women have today. This relates to the interactionist perspective as to what society perceives women as. Gender identity is something that you act or perform, it is not who we are. Today women sometimes have to act sexual to get what they want in society. Nicki explains this when she says, “Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he call me Nyquil” Women are supposed to please their man she continues by saying, “And when we done, I make him buy me Balmain” This shows that after she pleasures him she is able to get whatever she wants. That she has to use her body to get whatever she wants. It is a role change between men and women. She is using him to get what she wants, but must give up her body to do it. In the music video there is a scene where she is toying with drake dancing around him not allowing him to touch her body, yet flaunting it in front of him. Additionally, she talks about how she has a Boy Toy named Troy. A Boy Toy is a man that a woman offers herself for pleasure and fun. She talks about how she uses this Boy Toy to buy her nice things like Alexander McQueen, which is a very high-end clothing company. Today it is very common to hear about Sugar Momma’s or Daddy’s who offer younger people money to keep them company and sometimes for sexual
In The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto, Imani Perry argues that the over-sexualized, unattainable bodies of black women in popular culture will lead to the breakdown of feminism and the positive body image of the everyday black women. As hip hop music continues to become more popular, the sexist messages presented in lyrics and music videos are becoming more common to the everyday public, including young black girls developing a self-image. Instead of these girls being exposed to healthy, positive role models who encourage individuality and that there is more to a woman than her body they are given hip hop video models whose only purpose is to look sensual on screen. The strong women that do exist in the hip hop genre are pushed to sexualize themselves or their lyrics to sell records or stay relatively unknown. Although Perry’s arguments are logical, I believe that she is creating a slippery slope of logic. A genre of music cannot destroy the self-image of black women that has existed for generations.
Onika Tanya Maraj, better known as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, songwriter and actress. She has always been praised by her fans for being such a fashion icon but during this course I have realized that a lot of her ideas come from previous art works of the past. Appropriation is a practice that involves re making styles or arts from different cultures of the past. Nikki Minaj has used appropriation in many of her works but has also been wrongfully accused of appropriation as well.
The message Minaj sends is one of redefining gender roles and gender stereotypes, and not one of submission. This video acknowledges that gender stereotypes do not allow for women to meet their own sexual needs, thus injecting a series of subversive messages that serve to empower women to redefine the balance of power within traditional gender roles between males and females. On the surface, this looks like every other modern music video; dig deeper and the message you will find is much more empowering to
In " Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharrell it talks about how a men humiliates a women.This song talks a about sexiest men and how he caresless about womens rigths or feelings, this song made alot of people angry becaause of how it talks about women.This song actually compares womens rigths and feelings to animals
In the article “ From Fly to Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan, she often speaks about the positive and negative ideas associated with hip-hop music. Black men display their manhood with full on violence, crime, hidden guilt, and secret escapes through drugs and alcohol. Joan Morgan’s article views the root causes of the advantage of misogyny in rap music lyrics. In the beginning of the incitement her desires shift to focus on from rap culture condemnation to a deeper analysis of the root causes. She shows the hidden causes of unpleasant sexism in rap music and argues that we need to look deeper into understanding misogyny. I agree with Joan Morgan with the stance that black men show their emotions in a different way that is seen a different perspective.
The song includes a female voice towards the end, inserting a female twist of the term “tip drill.” The woman continuously repeats: “it must be your money cause it ain’t your face” indicating that the male version of a “tip drill” is an unattractive yet wealthy man, willing to spend money to impress a woman. She states, “I got you paying my bills and buying automobiles.” This female voice is unfortunately the only feminine view of the entire song, generalizing the female population as predominantly gold diggers, or women willing to sleep with anyone for luxury items.
I really enjoyed this post because it allowed me to look further into the lyrics of the song and analyze it in a way many might not. Originally, the song portrays Trainor singing about loving and accepting yourself for who you are regardless of your body size. However, that wasn’t entirely what the song was about. Instead she proceeded to attack other women for their skinny body types. I mentioned that as a woman who had the power to make such a strong input on the lives of all young girls, she should have empowered all women. I would re-write my post by going into more detail about the culture cycle and how she broke through the social-responsi...
The most common theme in hip-hop music videos is the objectification of females. Women are portrayed as sexual objects throughout the videos. In some videos they are seen as a type of reward or trophy for the male. Other times they are seen holding money to gain the attention of men or are even portrayed as slaves willing to do anything to please the men in the videos. According to Catherine MacKinnon, “Objectification involves treating a person, someone with humanity, as an object of merely instrumental worth, and consequently reducing this person to the status of an object for use” (1989). Her point relates to the hip-hop music videos because the idea that they transmit is that women are only objects available at anytime for men’s use. When women are objectified men feel more “powerful” or “successful” by showing the have control over women.
This song represented the time in 1993 when women in the hip hop culture were not taken seriously as males, so Queen Latifah had to call the judgmental people out. U.N.I.T.Y has the significance impact of feminism, just like her first two albums as an artist. How every man, she states calls a women “ho” or “bitch” she defends by saying “Who you calling a bitch?”. Another song that has been recalled as an importance of women in hip hop is the song (9) “Give It To You” by Da Brat. “So let it go, Cause my shit is tight, Take it how I give it, And enjoy the night”, she is talking about the males, if they have something to say about the women in the rap industry they should let it go before things get out of hand. The importance of this song was that ladies in hip hop are able to fight back stronger. In the song (10) “Lost Ones” by Lauryn Hill is about her talking about a person she has a brutal honest message to. This song has an important impact on women who would want to be in the hip hop culture because it is the woman's choice to decide what she wants to do. In 1998, she releases this song to brings an influence to women, if feeling threatened by men, women should refuse to be treated in any type of way that is
While it is true that Minaj used a lot of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s words, it wouldn’t be entirely accurate* to automatically assume that she was expressing the exact same sentiment*. After all, Minaj does rap about sleeping with Troy and Michael * (cite), which seems to feed into the “Jezebel concept” * (cite, ad 948 – represented as a ho, characterized by sleeping around with men) and makes it appear that Minaj is willingly offering herself up for objectification. However, one must also consider the possibility that Minaj utilizes this objectification as an empowerment tool for women. While Sir Mix-A-Lot’s song* was projecting the message “I am a man and I am standing up for curvaceous women”, Minaj’s song declares “I’m a curvaceous woman and not only can I stand up for my body, but I can also do whatever I want with
Nicki’s apparent feminist agenda through her music and identity is being distributed to her wide audience, which covers a massive array of hip-hop and pop music fans. Her wide reach and continual influence has the potential to lastingly correct the anti-feminist, misogynistic tone of the male-dominated genre and culture. Despite her hyper sexualized image and defamatory lyrics, she is arguably a positive, albeit controversial, feminist role model, which is evident in her motivation for success, lyrical discourse, and use of and meanings behind her alter egos.
“Women’s roles were constantly changing and have not stopped still to this day.” In the early 1900s many people expected women to be stay at home moms and let the husbands support them. But this all changes in the 1920s, women got the right to vote and began working from the result of work they have done in the war. Altogether in the 1920s women's roles have changed drastically.
The song is basically singing about a girl that was a gold digger. Kanye West doesn’t know how to use language that is PG because in multiple lyrics, he uses the N word, the F word and other swear words. This song was originally to be sung by a female rapper, Shawnna, but she decided against it in her album. Kanye West decided that he could use it and he believed it would be a hit. Judging from the charts, it was. One of the lyrics says, “Now I ain't sayin she a gold digger, But she ain't messin with no broke n****s,” (Gold Digger, Kanye West) which is saying that she basically is a gold digger but Kanye isn’t just going out and saying it. Since this song was originally to be sung by a girl, we can infer that she was saying “I’m not a gold digger but I don’t date poor guys,” therefore she is avoiding the topic to some
The video displays variety of scenes, where the women are the basic need to the hunger of male dominance. The male gender are frequently labelled as “criminals” and Madriz describes “criminals as animalistic, as savages or monsters” (Madriz 346). This is clea in the video when Eminem sings“If she ever tries to fucking leave again Im'a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire” (verse 3). It shows, how violent a men can be to get what they want if things do not go their way. It
The oppressive picture displaying the sexual objectification of women that most hip-hop artists paint while rapping can only be described as appalling. Many artists imply that a woman?s sole purpose is to gratify a man?s every sexual desire. For instance, ?Nelly?s ?Tip Drill? goes as far to portray scantily clad women as sexual appliances? (Weisstuch). Though Nelly is relatively mild when contrasted to other hip-hop artists, his actualization of women cannot be ignored. By calling women ?sexual appliances,? Nelly essentially promotes the idea that it is customary to view all women solely as sexual objects. Moreover, the generic ?sex appe...