Dhy Minaj Research Paper
Nicky Minaj has seen success and beyond the mainstream exploding into international pop stardom since signing a record label with Lil Wayne, Young Money entertainment in 2009. Nicky Minaj has appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, forty-four times and she’s received seven BET awards and she’s also received four American awards. To date she’s sold five million albums worldwide. As stated in ‘The Guardian’ newspaper online Nicky Minaj’s music is appealing at young boys and girls. With the genre of hip-hop, pop, rap and R&B Nicky have made a connection with different fans appealing and matching their genre. Also we can see she has succeeded in her career as she has more than 18 million followers on twitter and instagram, she’s been portrayed
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Also, how is misogyny used in hip hop videos today. Looking through social networks to magazines to find more about the star image of Nicky Minaj I’ve found that she’s being symbolised and advertised as a cheap object. This has been created through the scandalized make up, the lack of clothing and using objects such as lollipops to create the image of being a sexual object and her trying to please it. When we study representation we look at what representations are constructed and how the audience receive and consume them. In this case we get the first impression of someone through the representation the media is giving to us and we interpret it in the way we see …show more content…
Linking this to Nicky Minaj we can see that she always wears pink costumes such as thongs and bikinis in most of her videos such as in Anaconda where she wears a pink thong and a pink bra. This represents the star image as ‘Black Barbie, with the perfect body and the perfect life. In one scene she’ working out in the gym with a crew of other females also following her steps while she works out for the shape of her body. This makes an impact on the rest of the young girls watching, as they’re under enormous pressure to fit with a continuous beauty competition to judge and criticise their own bodies from the outside as men see them and deny how their bodies feel with it . This is giving the audience the message that young women should look after themselves to be able to find and please a
Also, how is misogyny used in hip hop videos today. Looking through social networks to magazines to find more about the star image of Nicky Minaj I’ve found that she’s being symbolised and advertised as a cheap object. This has been created through the scandalized make up, the lack of clothing and using objects such as lollipops to create the image of being a sexual object and her trying to please it. When we study representation we look at what representations are constructed and how the audience receive and consume them. In this case we get the first impression of someone through the representation the media is giving to us and we interpret it in the way we see …show more content…
Linking this to Nicky Minaj we can see that she always wears pink costumes such as thongs and bikinis in most of her videos such as in Anaconda where she wears a pink thong and a pink bra. This represents the star image as ‘Black Barbie, with the perfect body and the perfect life. In one scene she’ working out in the gym with a crew of other females also following her steps while she works out for the shape of her body. This makes an impact on the rest of the young girls watching, as they’re under enormous pressure to fit with a continuous beauty competition to judge and criticise their own bodies from the outside as men see them and deny how their bodies feel with it . This is giving the audience the message that young women should look after themselves to be able to find and please a