I'm trying really hard to purge some old mentalities wrt music/ians that were formed when I was fresh out of the cult

For example, this video was my introduction to Nikki Minaj's aesthetic and dancing

Bad Lip Reading Dirty Spaceman - video Dailymotion

Not her singing, as this is a Bad Lip Reading video

Her motions and facial expressions are really exaggerated in this particular video

I kind of decided at the time that i really disliked her

This is the actual video that this was made from

will.i.am, Nicki Minaj - Check It Out (Official Musi...

Of course, this is what she became a household name for

Nicki Minaj - MONSTER (Verse - Lyrics)

I listened to this when i still disliked her and thought that it was really bad

But like...what i disliked is more the aesthetic of the song itself?

The lyrics themselves

Anyway this just auto-sorted into one of youtube's playlists (which was based on Paparazzi by Lady Gaga) and I really like it

Starships

You were in a cult??

Lucy : Yes...it just happened to come up yesterday when the AMA meme was going around, actually

But yeah, there was a lot of "women in the media are Jezebels" kind of stuff in that movement so I had some bad internalized misogyny to unlean

Lucy :

Oh man, I empathize with you here. I was never a cult but I remember hating Courtney love a lot when I was a teenager into nirvana and now I'm like... live through this is the shit and sure she isn't a Great person but NEITHER WAS KURT

Point is unlearning musical misogyny is hard

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