Late Tuesday afternoon, acclaimed pop star Taylor Swift sent an emotionally wounded retort to fellow acclaimed pop star Nicki Minaj. Swift was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Video, while Minaj was not. Swift thought Minaj was unfairly directing blame for the snub at her, when Minaj should really be blaming one of the men nominated for said award.
She wrote: "Dear Barbz,
It must be exhausting always rooting for the Anti-hero."
It was just the latest development in a long, unfolding saga that ended up involving people with very, very carefully sculpted images behaving like, well, human beings on social media, and learning a lesson all parents should tell their children when tucking them in at night: No matter what it is, never tweet.
The MTV Video Music Awards are now primarily known in the public consciousness as a platform for unusually bananas musical performances. (It's where, for instance, Miley Cyrus twerked and launched a million think pieces.) But like music's other big awards — the Grammys — those performances are just there so you'll watch while awards are handed out, and even if the audience doesn't particularly care who wins, the artists very much do.
As both Barbz and Swifties know all to well, Nicki and Taylor hit the stage at that year's awards ceremony together as a way to show that they had settled their beef following some drama involving the Video of the Year nominations. The joint collaboration, which saw "The Night Is Still Young" lead into "Bad Blood," came after Taylor publicly apologized to Nicki for suggesting that "maybe one of the men took your slot" when her "Anaconda" music video was snubbed.
After Nicki clarified that she wasn't criticizing Taylor, who was nominated in the category, and was instead calling out "white media and their tactics" in a tweet, the pop star replied, "I thought I was being called out. I missed the point, I misunderstood, then misspoke. I'm sorry, Nicki."
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