Nicki Minaj Already Won Something Bigger Than a Video Music Award
A Twitter exchange between Minaj and Taylor Swift has grabbed headlines—but Minaj's "Anaconda" video is historic with or without a nomination
Last August, the hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj’s video for her song “Anaconda”broke a record for VEVO, YouTube’s site dedicated to music videos. In its first 24 hours, the clip notched 19.6 million views, but it seemed to make more news for its content than for the records it broke, from Minaj’s willingness to show off her figure to her evident lack of concern with male praise in so doing (she famously brushes off Drake in the clip’s final moments). Between its massive audience, the conversations it engendered about body confidence and gender relations, and the memes it launched, it seemed like an obvious contender for the top prize at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. But, as announced Tuesday, “Anaconda” wasn’t nominated.
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