What if I told you guys the person I admire is Nicki Minaj? Sounds pretty unusual, maybe even a bit spontaneous, doesn't it? I know what you might be thinking right now, “You mean the singer from the Anaconda video?” “Why her?”. Yes, as you may all know, she’s a singer and rapper, most commonly known for her song “Anaconda” and music video. Many people only recognize her as a pretty face with a nice voice, but I can assure you she is much more than that.
Let's start from the very beginning...
Onika Tanya Maraj, also known as Nicki Minaj, was born December 8, 1982 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. At about age 5 her parents went to the U.S.A. for a better life, leaving her with her grandmother. Eventually, her parents came back for her, and then moved to Queens, New York. Soon after, her father became a crack addict, endangering her family.
This might not seem like it has to do with anything, but it does. To sum it up, Onika Maraj was born into poverty in a troubled family with a crack addicted father. Despite all this, Maraj still managed to become successful in a male dominated music genre as a woman and also as a woman of color. This is something I mainly
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She is constantly urging her younger fans to stay in school and work hard. "My fans send me pictures of their diplomas; the younger ones send me pictures of their report card. Whether I had this platform or not, I would be telling little girls and little boys, stay in school. Always depend on yourself. Make a name for yourself. That's how I treat my nieces and my little brother. They're 15, 13, and about eight, and I never want them to get to a place where they have to depend on anyone else. That has always been the motivating factor in my life. There were times when my mom said, 'I can't leave, because where would we go?' Those things would stick in my brain, and I would say, 'I'm never going to be in that
never go to school. All of this was taken away from her at such a young age, when she
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.
Overt sexual and gender stereotyped messages have become commonplace in the American music video scene. Nicki Minaj 's video for her hit single “Anaconda” is no exception, with its graphic images of scantily clad women with vibrating and shaking bodies dancing around in an exotic jungle setting with plenty of phallic imagery. Not all of the messages conveyed by this video are immediately apparent; upon scratching the surface, viewers will see gender messages that are far more covert. And while there may be a temptation to assume the worst about the video 's representation of power, gender, sexuality, and stereotype, the video is also strangely empowering. On the surface, Minaj portrays the female gender as highly sexualized and disempowered and yet some of the deeper messages in this video also reflect a sense of female empowerment, confidence, and an embracing of sexuality and sexual assertiveness.
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she will forever be loved and inspirational by many keeping her popularity and fame for another
Generations of women after Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, especially since 1970s onwards, have focused on female sexuality as one of the dominant themes in popular culture. We can recognize similar images that appear in “Prove it on me blues” in many pop songs sung by female artists today. With the same confidence that the blues female singers used to reflect the working-class black feminism, one of the most prominent genres, which continue that same spirit, is hip-hop/rap and its icon – Nicki Minaj. In the 21st century, Nicki Minaj is a model of women empowerment as she constructs her own image of black feminism and black womanhood. Though her public image is controversial, she still remains her own notion of femininity, an her music often challenges the social norms. Specifically, in “Anaconda”, she proves the stereotypes of black female sexuality as destructive. The MV features a female-dominated world where Minaj enjoys being with other women. She also subverts the norm of domesticity in the scene where a male dancer appears powerless to her sexuality. In addition, her impact in a male-dominated field is undeniable as she is one of the most famous rappers in the world, and maybe the most well-known female rapper in the hip-hop/rap
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