Ayo, this is how you go big for a music video. Chris Brown reteams with director Colin Tilley for a throwback to the Bad Boy heyday, focusing in on a larger-than-life competition with Tyga that starts with a Gold Toilet and ends with a fast and furious car race.
Is it the apex of female empowerment for Nicki Minaj to take a term Sir Mix-A-Lot used to refer to his manhood and coil it into a reference to her own powerful assets? Or, are we just looking at an excuse to watch booty shake like rattlesnake tails?
Welcome to the insane territory of no-holds-barred postmodern music video, where you don't need to just stop at putting em on the glass; Now you can shatter that glass with ferocious ass-rattling power. In a set-up similar to Katy Perry "Roar" — think of "Anaconda" as the Hard R version — MInaj unleashes the booty and likely renders you speechless (or in the case of lap dance recipient, Drake, painfully immobile).
Can Nicki Minaj co-opt Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Anaconda" and make it a powerfully threatening nickname for her derriere? The answer, of course, is yes — especially saying no to Ms. Minaj is not something I'd recommend.
A dark nasty pop video in that falls somewhere between "Rhythm Nation" and "Looks That Kill," but with some influence of The Golden Age of Cable TV (most prominent in a set-up that would make Michonne proud).
Jabbawockeez, prison yard gangstas and an old-fashioned family are just some of the eye-candy competing with Tyga, Lil Wayne and Nikki Minaj in this new Young Money collabo clip.
