

Swift should not have bothered with that one. Nicki Minaj is FURIOUS with MTV's VMAs for snubbing #Anaconda & #FeelingMyself. *shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots* It’s not even on YouTube or Vevo) snubbed by MTV, took a turn for the “WTF” when Swift responded to Minaj’s tweet that if the rapper were a different “kind” of artist, she would’ve been in the category.

#AnotherEndOfAnEraįurthermore (drumroll: carry on). Regarding their “Twitter beef.” What went from Minaj voicing her disappointment in her videos “Anaconda” and “Feeling Myself” with Beyonce (which is exclusively held on TIDAL. I’ve been watching the televised event since 1997, and this is the first time I have no intentions of making sure I’ll be home to witness it. Is anyone even excited to watch the 2015 VMAs? I know I’m not. And it hasn’t been a cultural force for at least the last four years. It’s been a few years since MTV has replicated the glory days of even the mid-2000s. And to see videos on any MTV channel beyond an hour, you better be turned to MTV Jams or MTVu.īloomberg News reported on July 1 of this year that MTV, which is owned by Viacom and is its “ flagship network”, experienced “prime-time ratings down 21.7 percent from last season and 25 percent in the 18- to 34-year-old demographic the network targets.” (Though MTV.com is actually thriving). Who is honestly checking for who and what got nominated when the network proclaimed that “Music Television” would no longer be a part of its slogan and obtain less of a purpose since 2010? MTV clearly doesn’t want to matter in the realm of music anymore.

I felt that for starters, their whole exchange derived out of an event and show that has become so irrelevant. But I’ll proceed to explain why I am writing about it anyway. As I was informed by social media about the quarrel (I haven’t used that word in, how long?) between Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift over the MTV VMA nominations for Video of the Year, I really could have cared less.
