14 DAY TRIAL // Most people out there who are not up to date with the ins and outs of the current music industry, the people who just pick up on new music on the radio while on their way to work, will tell you that Nicki Minaj came out of nowhere in the charts but that she's now an easily-recognizable figure.
The main reason for that is her ample posterior, though the word “ample” does not suffice anymore. We would use such a word to describe Jennifer Lopez's posterior (remember when JLo's body was all the rage?), but the same one can't apply to Nicki Minaj's posterior, because they're in a different class. For Minaj, a more suitable description would be “larger than life.”
Nicki Minaj centered her career on that ample posterior
The gritty and feisty singer has stirred passions and controversies with her presence and her songs that often border on the offensive due to their explicit lyrics and chosen themes. But no other controversy has been bigger in her case than the debate of whether or not she's got butt implants.
Up until now, Nicki has denied such an allegation and went on as far as to raise said body part to the rank of idol, giving it the central place in her new album, “Anaconda,” both in terms of songs and cover art.
There have been many who have expressed their doubt in regards to Nicki's posterior and exactly how much of it was given to her by Mother Nature and how much by a doctor who was handy with a scalpel.
One look at the photo and it's hard to believe that it's all real
The definitive proof came a few days ago in the form of a photo taken from one of Nicki Minaj's concerts, right in the middle of her routine. The photo was taken at the Fashion Rocks event that took place last weekend in New York.
In the photo, Nicki can be seen sitting on a chair, spreading her legs in the air, all the while resting on her generous derrière. So far, nothing suspicious. But wait! Upon closer inspection, Nicki's posterior looks a bit odd.
Since Nicki was wearing at the time a pair of very low-cut jeans shorts, her anatomy is highly visible and there is something very wrong with what is shown. To put it simply, Nicki looks like she's sitting on a small cushion rather than her own buttocks, or rather, on a small, round balloon, and this would only make sense if Nicki had implants down there.
Specialists were called in, including plastic surgeons, and they all agreed that the human bum does not retain its shape when its owner sits down on it. Not even if it was made of only lean, hard muscle, because it's not designed that way.
The photo also proves how far some are willing to go to pay the price of fame
The conclusion was then that not only does Nicki have implants, but they are so big that it makes her look like she has two small cushions back there, protruding out of her pants at all times.
“So what?” you might ask yourself, and you'd be right. People have the right to modify their bodies in whatever way they see fit. But, in Nicki's case, she's guilty of covering up the truth and creating a false standard.
Think about it this way: would you still have paid so much attention to Minaj and her music if her aggressive marketing team didn't focus so much on her body? Probably not. Nicki is thus guilty of pushing the envelope even further than humanly possible, but not in a good way, since she resorted to plastic surgery and then systematically lied about it, just to make it in the music industry.
The fact that she's now ruling the charts with her new album speaks volumes about our society and how the music industry manages to take advantage of certain human flaws. It's just sad that current entertainers have to resort to extreme body modifications, to the point that they look like clowns, in order to get ahead.
You might not agree with my point and kid yourself that you like her music simply because it's good, but when a singer has to go to extreme lengths and modify her body out of proportion just to get noticed, you have to realize that there's something wrong with how the music industry works.
Now imagine that your sister, mother, aunt or girlfriend takes a look at this and decides that this is the new norm and she has to get the same clownish dimensions of her posterior in order to be regarded as appealing to the opposite gender. Isn't that a scary image?