If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year
When the 'other' girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination. If I was a different 'kind' of artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as well. Following the snub, Minaj set off an Internet firestorm once again with a simple series of tweets: Nearly a year later, MTVs Video Music Awards snubbed the video in its nominations for Video of the Year, with Beyoncé representing the only woman of color in the category for her '7/11' video. Reactions to the video were mixed, to be sure, but what Nicki accomplished was undeniably big, bold and uncompromisingly black. When the video for Nicki Minaj’s “ Anaconda” dropped in August of last year, she set the Internet ablaze with her ode to curvaceous black women, racking up 19.6 million views on YouTube in its first 24 hours, smashing the record at the time.
