Oh Christ on crutches. Y’all know I love Taylor Swift(‘s music), but I’m embarrassed for the spectacle she’s making of herself on Twitter right now. Here’s the deal: the MTV Video Music Award nominations came out yesterday, and there weren’t a whole lot of surprises. Nicki Minaj got some nominations, but Taylor was nominated in, like, every category, even though, let’s be real, the “Blank Space” video was in no way spectacular or even special. I wasn’t necessarily a fan of Nicki’s “Anaconda” video (I don’t like the song, but love her), but the fact that it received fewer nominations than basically Taylor’s shit – not to mention the fact that the Bey/Nicki “Feelin’ Myself” video received zero – kinda grinded Nicki’s gears.
At no point did Nicki call Taylor by name, but rather she expressed her frustration with the system, in which pretty, thin white girls are rewarded while black girls in charge of their sexuality and killin’ it are marginalized into the rap categories or otherwise ignored. Her observation was important and true and worth listening to, but not to Taylor. She took it as a personal attack and immediately decided to pounce, get bratty, and miss the point in the process.
Here’s Nicki’s tweet and Taylor’s bitchy reply:
Yikes. That’s… incredibly cringe-worthy. Way to miss the fucking point AND be a total arrogant brat in the meantime! Well done, Taylor Swift! Nicki then replied in a MUCH nicer way than she should have done (and likely much nicer than she will have wanted to), and then Taylor attempted to simultaneously backpeddle while still being a massive you-know-what:
God, I’m cringing so hard. It’s time to step away from social media, Taylor. Possibly forever.
I’m with Taylor on this one. Nikki thinks that just because she gets her ass out that qualifies as “influencing culture”? I think culture would be better off without her influence….
I get that Nikki’s point is about how black women are under-appreciated but saying only “slim women” get nominated does take away from Taylor. It’s basically saying Taylor only got the nod for being slim- Taylor is right that Nikki could have made her point without bringing down other women and specifically her- as she was the slim woman who got the nod this year.
Who else would Nikki be talking about? Who is the most famous skinny white girl out there who is getting all the press?
Yeah…so dumb. Nicki sounds like she’s mad and blaming bc Taylor is white, but instead of, you know, sounding RACIST she makes it out like it’s skinny vs. fat and black artists are the victims. Sore loser Nicki. Yeah Taylor is bratty and has her head in the clouds but it doesn’t mean you gotta lose social class ones