Nicki Minaj’s vaccination claim that caused an uproar Sept. 13 was publicly refuted by Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister.
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Nicki Minaj’s international anti-vaccine fiasco reveals the life-and-death stakes at the heart of normalizing a culture of fandom tribalism.
Amy Shark performing at the ARIA awards in November 2018.
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It was a year when both men and women bared their emotions through music.
Nicki Minaj in the music video for Chun-Li, from her latest album, Queen.
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Nicki Minaj is the preeminent female rapper. Her latest album Queen embraces a kind of girl power that has been criticised both within and outside the rap world.
Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do.
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MTV may not be the power house it used to be but the music video is flourishing online.
Nicki Minaj arrives at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. She has been largely considered a bad influence on young women.
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Musicians and performers have long been considered to influence young people in negative ways.