![]() Schwedel: I just wanted to add that her gay male fans are called Ken Barbz. Plus, there’s another key quote from that NYT piece about the music journalist Nicki fought with: “Her fans mimic her behavior.” As Brian Feldman reported a couple years back, Lil Nas X comes from the Barb world, and he was able to leverage that fan base to reach his current level of success. Pahwa: I think we should be very careful about how we go about describing the Barbz, but: They are indeed named after one of Nicki’s alter egos ( the Harajuku Barbie), and they are extremely devoted and powerful. Who are they, what are their characteristics as a fan base, and why are they called that? We should also say that some Nicki fans went to protest at the CDC in Atlanta during all of this, if that shows you how active they are. Onion: Heather, be careful, the Barbz are real!Ĭraven: I think the Cardi-Nicki beef is pretty much done between the artists, even though online I see the hives clash at times. Schwedel: There’s definitely a narrative out there that she has been usurped by Cardi B, right? Although last year, she had a chart-topping single with Tekashi69, who had pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse in 2015. Pahwa: Yeah, besides rereleasing Beam Me Up Scotty with a few new songs, and appearing as a feature on some other remixes and albums, she hasn’t done too much new stuff since 2018’s Queen, which was nowhere near as well-received as some of her previous projects. Then she got mad at Joy Reid and Meghan McCain for scolding her publicly for not getting vaccinated then she retweeted Tucker Carlson approving of her recent tweets with the bull’s-eye emoji then she said the White House had asked her to come talk to them about the vaccine then it turned out that no, she was just getting to talk to a doctor about it or possibly have some kind of White House phone call then, she said she was suspended from Twitter for spreading misinformation ( even though she wasn’t). ![]() Then she asked her fans (?) which of the vaccines she should get (?). At some point, she said she would get vaccinated to go on tour. THEN in ANOTHER tweet, honestly an all-timer, she said her cousin’s friend in Trinidad got the vaccine and his testicles swelled up and his fiancée called off their wedding. ![]() Then in a separate tweet, she said that she wasn’t going to the Met ball because they required a vaccination and she wasn’t going to get vaccinated for that, but advised everyone to wear a good mask. ![]() So here’s my understanding of things as they are: Nicki, who uses (used?!) Twitter quite a bit, had been replying to fans who were upset about not seeing her out and about, explaining that she has a little baby and no child care because of the virus, and that she got COVID at one point and it was stressful because she couldn’t be around him. Below, four Slate staff writers attempt to make sense of the situation. A lot has been going on with Nicki Minaj, vaccines, swollen testicles, the White House, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, sexual assault, etc., this week. ![]()
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