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For that matter, we could ask where Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money nomination went, unless she missed the deadline by a day. Or Shamir’s playful, puppet-filled video for Call it Off. Or we’d have seen a nomination for Azealia Banks’ webcam-interactive Wallace video. If this category were about anything other than trolling everyone, Björk’s 360-degree video for Stonemilker would be up. Only Kendrick Lamar’s politically inclined Alright, budget CGI included, and the colourful, joyful silliness of Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk featuring Bruno Mars deserve their nods. She’s beautiful and having fun, but there isn’t much happening in the way of concept. Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud video feels like a stylised So You Think You Can Dance audition and Beyoncé’s 7/11 was shot on a phone, in a hotel.

Minaj earns a few extra points for promoting a variety of body types, having a sense of humour and subverting a saucy “whipped cream on breasts” sequence into one where she slices a banana into pieces (yes, men, that moment is meant to make you worry about your penises).Įven among the other nominees, this category is dry. But this doesn’t feel like the place to have a nuanced conversation about race in music.Īnaconda is marginally better, and centres on the celebration of big butts in various, incongruous locations. One part of the issue Minaj raised confronts the industry’s collusion with the structures of white supremacy that would rather sanitise black art for a white audience than celebrate it in its original form. Newsflash: parts of the US music industry have been built on exploitative terms for musicians, and for years white artists covered and repackaged black music to make it palatable for mainstream, segregated radio. They made Swift’s tweet sound like a tone-deaf reaction to a black artist trying to speak about the hypocrisy of an industry that profits from the commercialisation of parts of African American culture without rewarding the creators of those trends (see Azealia Banks’ impassioned Hot 97 interview from last year for a recent example). Maybe one of the men took your slot.- Taylor Swift July 21, 2015 It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Of course, its butt-focused cover art also stirred up a fair amount of online controversy, and became the subject of a slew of Photoshopped I've done nothing but love & support you.

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Anaconda, whether or not it’s to your tastes, was featured in an Ellen Show sketch, broke YouTube music vertical Vevo’s record for the most streams in 24 hours – previously held by Miley Cyrus’s 2014 VMA video of the year, Wrecking Ball – and had its choreography attempted by struggling models in a Vogue series of Vine videos during New York fashion week. “If I was a different ‘kind’ of artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as well,” she wrote before posting further tweets about how the song and video had impacted on pop culture over the past 11 months. The VMAs have gone from provocative and shambolic in the 80s and 90s to a cloyingly sweet, backslapping circle jerk, so Minaj’s sore-loser honesty felt refreshing. Rather, she shared her thoughts about the suckerpunch feeling we’ve all experienced when we’ve lost out on something that we worked for and wanted. Minaj calmly posted a few tweets and did not, as some media outlets would lead you to believe, let off an Angry Black Woman stereotype “rant”.

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