How has Nicki Minjaj’s ‘Anaconda’ album cover been received by the audience?
Nicki Minaj’s recently released album named ‘Anaconda’ (℗ Cash Money Records Inc & Minaj, N.) features a picture of Nicki Minaj crouched in a provocative fashion wearing just a G-string, a sports bra and trainers as the cover art. The main focus of the image is her large, uncensored butt. This has created a lot of controversy among the audience due to its explicit nature, and the fact that her butt is so large has created a fascination within the audience.
I have decided to use virtual ethnography in order to gather evidence for this question because a lot of the audience’s opinions of the album cover are portrayed through parody images on the internet and there is some quite in-depth commentary about the images by the audience.…show more content… Parody images include using Nicki Minaj’s butt cheeks as the O’s in the Google logo and another is of the scene in Lion King where Simba is held up in the sky, except Nicki Minaj is being held instead. Other images include a spoof image created by Miley Cyrus, called ‘Hannah Conda’ which shows her character Hannah Montana as Nicki Minaj and another shows a picture of a sum of 3 ‘normal’ sized butts which equal Nicki Minaj’s when added together. All of these images display a fascination of Nnicki Minaj’s body, but also make fun of how she looks by the mocking tone of the