Songs can be poetry too. Why wouldn't they be? They both share verse, rhymes, some clever word play, and they make the ordinary, as a most beloved teacher once told me, into something extraordinary, funny and insightful.
Also, a song is just a poem accompanied by music.
Because there are so many topics people can discuss daily, its great when a poet/artist can approach a new idea or maybe something old, and make it unique and relatable to us. They end up putting their own creative spin on it, adding new insight and perspective. For example, there are many poems that talk about the beauty of tall, 'wise' trees. Wise is just another word for old when it comes to a tree, but it also means that the tree has been around so many years and seen so many things, that its historical and beautiful in its old and steady strength.
But I'm here to say that Nikki Minaj's song Anaconda, is a question mark to me.
It makes me scratch my head and shake it, because the song is another level of vanity.
It's a song literally dedicated to her butt.
Can anyone truly relate to this?
Or be inspired by this?
It could've been an empowering message for women to accept who they are and their bodies, if it weren't for this very exclusive line.....
'Yeah, he love this fat ass, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah! This one is for my b****es with a fat ass in the f**king club
I said, where my fat ass big b****es in the club?
F**k the skinny b****es! f**k the skinny b****es in the club!'
Also, I thought poetry and song was supposed to spiritually lift you. I don't see that happening with this one. If anything, I think it might make someone self-conscious, especially if they don't have big butts....
'My anaconda don't want none
Unless you got buns, hun'
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