Nicki Minaj and the Harajuku Fiasco
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- From the self-proclaimed Harajuku Barbie to Shojono Tomo's darling, Nicki Minaj has had an interesting history with alternative Japanese Fashion. Join me today for a deep dive into her rocky rise to the Harajuku it-girl status!
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00:00 introduction
01:14 chapter 1
10:11 chapter 2
15:22 chapter 3
17:41 conclusion
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• 初来日！ ニッキー・ミナージュに直撃
• NICKI MINAJ EXPLAINS "...
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www.townnews.co.jp/0609/2012/...
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The “we’re in Japan” video always kills me😭🤣🤣🤣
Right? He was so dumb but funny😭
LMAOOO that man got on her nerves
Lmao 😂 that is my mom and her fiance lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@duavibes1203 I mean a continuous tap dance on her last one!! Lol
I can't stand people like that 😂 he has no self-awareness but historically we all know that about Safaree 😂😂😂
I hate how critics kept calling her ghetto
@@lala-nh6tvGaga...
Ikr, its racist, because there most likely only saying that because she’s black, and it’s really messed up.
If someone from another group wears it: So cute and unique! Very feminine!
Black girl wears it: Provocative and ghetto
@@lala-nh6tvwhen Katy Perry wore stuff like this it wasn’t ghetto, I wonder why?🤔✋🏻
They hate ALT black women
They really bullied the theater kid out of her. I hate people so much
Her husband is a 🍇ist 💀
I agree!! She was so expressive and FUN!!
Yep.
YES
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 good❤️
I miss Harajuku Nicki so much.
chinese water yes….we’re in japan
her roman reloaded era was everything 😭
EXACTLYYYY. IT WAS LIKE PEAK GIRLY
It was an amazing time to be alive 😢❤❤🎉🎉 Peak Nicki frfr
There is so much racism and misogynoir behind the hate that nicki experienced around that time. She used to get called "crazy, weird, schizophrenic" by huge american publication. She was pressured to change and tone herself down. The Nicki we have today is unfortunately a product of all that hate.
@@webdumpster
Help, stop crying in the comments. You are so focused on dragging Nicki w unrelated subjects envolving her (like her beef w megan and etc) that you are starting to sound dumb.
So one person can't be mad at people being assholes w they because another person went thru the same thing and moved on? Lady Gaga is lady gaga, Nicki Minaj is Nicki Minaj. You are literally saying a BLACK person giving up on something bcuz they were suffering w RACISM (and maybe misogyny) is their fault meanwhile a CIS women get stupid rumors from blogs that she was a TRANS women... is not the same. It won't hit the same.
And yes, Nicki used to wear those looks for attention, so what? She herself as stated this so you ain't saying nothing new, lol. True artist change and Nicki changed her aesthetic and still got the same amount of attention she had before and still getting.
Stop obssesing over this women for the love of God.
Ugh Roman reloaded Harajuku Barbie era was so iconic I remember it fondly 🥹💖 also I love your Keroppi earrings! Super cute ✨
Nicki Minaj fashion was so appealing back then. I miss the era when she actually dresses like this. Another fun fact of Nicki she's part Japanese because of her grandfather. It could've contribute on her being part of the culture like she is with her African and Indian side. Knowing Nicki she's definitely into learning cultures and languages like spanish and I think more languages as well.
Yeah but ppl said she’s cultural appropriating Japanese culture
@@Pluto._.222American people once again 💀
@mohamedlo9121 calm down babes. No need to generalize a whole entire country of people just because Pluto said something. 😘
I honestly think she swayed from this style because a) this was the era where more whimsical and unique fashion was in for celebs and b) because she wanted to disengage with the seemingly pop scene to focus more on rap/hip hop themed culture so she toned it down.
@@Momolo328 It's always the randoms who are offended on behalf of people who didn't ask. It's so condescending, self-righteous, and clearly ego-driven.
when they showed her on NHK, Japanese media even called her the next Lady Gaga.
love from Tokyo
Aww we love you too Tokyo
i used to say nicki gaga katy perry and kesha were all we|rd for dressing we|rd
The reason why Nicki isn’t culturally appropriating is because she was actively giving credit to the folks she was wearing and contributing to artists the community she was speaking of. She never tried to pass it off as her own. I think this is something a lot of folks missed back then when they criticized her.
@@webdumpsterbecause Iggy is literally the face of industry plant, could've sworn she was out here faking accents to?
@@webdumpster
When was Nicki mad at Iggy?? Stop trying to make this beef happen, it's never been there in the first place lmao
What do you mean? Giving credit? She did nothing different than anyone else. You just cool with it because she black and not white. 🤡
@@brianallison9437 There’s thousands of white girls still wearing Harajuku fashion. it is appreciation and not appropriation. No one is trying to look Japanese. Everyone is enjoying a fashion style. It’s really not that deep.
That's not it@@brianallison9437
That look with the neon fuzzy boots is my favorite look aesthetically that she has ever done! I have been following her career and fashion since like 2009 and I was nearly an adult then so I remember it all lol this was a fun walk down memory lane as a Barb
also THANK YOU for so perfectly addressing the antiblack racism Nicki has faced in her industry and most of all in fashion! It is actually quite underrated how much she normalized the fun and youthful exciting fashion we enjoy today! Other artists certainly wore wild looks much earlier, but it was very seperate like "celebs can wear that but normies could never" vibes where I feel like Nickis style translated to her fans irl more than any other celeb has and its been integrated into non celeb fashion more than what I feel that it used to be
Also came back to add after your mentioning an interviewer not realizing she wore wigs.. NO ONE DID GIRL we were so silly lol Wigs are like totally normal for everyday people to wear but not all that long ago it was unheard of outside of POC cultures in white american culture we did not have any clue what was up whatsoever! I also think Nicki has had a fair hand in normalizing the normalness of using wigs to accent a look rather than like a permanent style if that makes sense? Like I feel the goal used to be for no one to know it was a wig specifically bc folks would be weird about it whereas now its kind of a flex because everyone knows more how much skill goes into making/stying a wig perfectly as well as how expensive they are!
@@manicmermaidashPOC culture is not a thing. 💀
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 ??? There are lots of different not white cultures within American culture. Non white is just a cringe way to say that imo sorry if you don't like my wording ..but there is absolutely various POC subculture within American culture that even now.. but especially in that era of Nicki's career which MOST (not all) white folks were absolutely clueless about. There was this whole era of realization that people were wearing wigs and these ppl had not one single clue but it was already very much understood as a part of black American culture specifically but of course lots of others also hence why I said POC as a generalization rather than saying "nonwhite" which feels kinda weird dated way to say what I'm referring to ..as well as not limit or exclude other American ethnic subcultures who also have beauty or fashion trends that ur average white people are ( I thought) famously largely not privvy to lol
@manicmermaidash don't address the person above. They go on every page talking mess about Nicki and her family. She/he is just a negative person. You're entitled to your feeling and we absolutely have a culture as black Americans.
I hate that a certain demographic of ppl managed to get in her head and bully the theater kid out of her. Her fashion this era was CAMP in every sense of the word and I loved it
loved the video! this was Nicki's best era fashion wise for suree
Why did they call her a profiteur and amateur when she was working with Japanese stylists to achieve those looks? They’re insulting their own people. And also the anti black undertone to all of it is just disgusting. I never understood why she gave up the colorful aesthetic but now I do
The funny thing is Harajuku Barbie was just one of Nicki’s many alter egos. She plays with her alter egos back and forth throughout her eras for instance Roman was huge during her Pink Friday and PF:RR eras but we didn’t see much of that alter ego during The Pinkprint era. So even back then she didn’t always dress to play the part because sometimes she was just being Onika not Harajuku Barbie!
Nicki Minaj recently came out with a press on nail line called Pink Friday Nails. She has a set called "Kawaii Square" which seems to reminicent her Harajuku era with all the cute and colorful charms. Im happy she stills implent the Harajuku Barbie era in her projects dispite all the backlash. I wish I was old enough in this during this era. 🎀
I remember loving Nicki as a kid because of the colourful hair and clothes it just felt so fantasy and she really looked like a doll in every magazine I saw her. And I didn’t really think of it but I really believed Nicky lived in the colorful worlds of her music videos and I would think that it would be so nice if I could go there too
Harajuku nicki was an icon. I miss when celebs were different and all didn’t dress the same and make the same music.
I understand why you wouldn't say it but i'll add that she faced an insane amount of backlash and mockery from the black and hiphop community. She was literally mocked on stage in front of thousand of people during the 2012 sumerjam right before she was supposed to perform. This also heavily impacted her and influenced her to change.
I don’t think a lot of y’all know how hard research is, it is so time consuming, especially if it is anything below 2014 , so big props to you for doing your research
I feel like people were just mad at her because they were being racist. They keep calling her “ghetto fabulous “ on the comments you read and I don’t even think she was trying to be “ghetto”. She was going for a cute look.
Love this era, harajuku fashion suits her so well! She was so fun and crazy with her style and characters and just did her own thing without caring about fitting in
I respect her for going full force in to the style even if it meant that the american public would reject it so harshly. I remember that era, and people calling ghetto or even a ghetto lady gaga :/ I’m also really glad that you made this video!! simply because ppl don’t talk about Nicki’s fashion game that much, especially that era.
love this video! i love nicki’s harajuka style and hope she goes back to it eventually :)
this was such a cute video as a barb !! this is what i live for 😭🩷🩷
I want her to come back so much with it 😢
She’s on a world tour and her alter ego Harajuku barbie is incorporated into the tour I just hope she wears and brings out her harajuku fits! Thank you for the video you explained it so well 🦄🫶🏽🫶🏽🦄
i love this new era of video essays so much... i would love to see more harujuku / fashion content like this!! i'm secretly praying for a gwen stefani harujuku video next
That can’t happen because unlike Nicki Gwen never wore Japanese street fashion, nor worked with Japanese stylists, instead she appropriated the culture and then abandoned it when she moved on to appropriating other cultures like Jamaican, Latino and Mexican..
cant call it appropriation when her and her sis are literally half japanese and half chinese thru their trinidadian side if u not trini u wouldnt get the heritage
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday 2 tour 💓💗💖💕💘💞💝
ughhh miss nicki's harajuku era one of my fav era's! Thank you for making this video!
this video is so good idk why ur not more popular, the outfit cuts and the cute little notifications whenever something isn't mentioned in video.
tbf this is her 2nd video and she only started on Feb 14 (we're early investors)
early investors iktr
I was in middle school around those times. Nicki and Lady Gaga were inspiring to me with their flamboyant styles in fashion and music. It made me more in touch with the colorful and “weird” fashion side of me that’s still in me at 25 years old. I miss those days.
Love this deep dive!
i loved this video sm and i think it’s a topic that is so overlooked/forgotten so tysm for nailing this so perfectly.
but when u said caroline herrera i almost died
This video brought back sooooo much nostalgia 😍😍😍😍😍 the blissful ignorant part was a big part of it because I always knew she received so much hate but not from the fashion world. It’s still happening to this day.
She looked so happy in this era damn
this was a super cool recap! you clearly care about fashion and pop culture, an easy subscribe 👍
Lovely! Instant follow. This is a wonderfully insightful take on what I believe to be Nicki's iconic era. (I love love love your fits too! xoxo)
Oh my god girl you're gorgeous. I always loved harajuku fashion and many other j fashion styles but implementing them can be hard sometimes due to time + money. LOVE hearung about it tho! You got a follow
Gwen Stefani was the first American Celebrity to dive into Harajuku culture, and she was criticized by people calling it cultural appropriation. Nothing has changed.
Yeah but the way Gwen did it was kinda insulting tho
@@downdstairs2There are some that see it that way. She was pretty big in Japan at the time so it couldn't have been that insulting.
@@GhostlyEcheveriaShe used to keep a small group of Japanese girls with her on red carpets, who were only allowed to speak when spoken to…and only in Japanese. Not to mention she claims she’s Japanese, and not a white woman, because she likes the culture. She was, and still is, weird for that.
@@briasandifer210 Are there videos of this? That sounds like a lot of speculation. If I see proof I'm perfectly willing to change my opinion, but I've never seen any proof of this. I know she had an entourage of Harajuku girls, but I've never heard any allegations of abuse.
I loved this! Thanks! Nicki must see this! Good job Barb 😍❤
Wow you only have 2 videos and less than 1k subscribers and yet this video is well polished. Good work here.
this fashion era of nicki and the entire roman reloaded era was such a serve, i'll always defend it.
that one technicolor kaleidoscope look with neon leg warmers and the purple hair with white streaks in it will ALWAYS be famous. ❤️
Nicki literally said in the video that she used the name Harajuku because it represented certain things to her that matched her personality. Doing something because you were inspired by something else doesn't automatically mean you're coping it or doing something thats very similar. I could dye my eyebrows green because Doja Cat inspired me to do it; even though shes never done that, simply because her style is alternative and represents liberation/rebellion from strict women beauty standards to me. Listen to understand not respond even if the person is a black woman
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! im so glad this video exist and how perfect it is. subscribed ❤
We need more videos!!!!
these videos are super good!! sometimes i cant hear ur voice over the sound effects but i really like how you cover things and ur outfits super cute too! thanks for deep diving into this 💕
NOT TO MENTION THE EDITING love the editing visuals
thank u for letting me know amor i will make them quieter in the next one!!! 🤍🤍
And I love how she did not appropriate, but she appreciated. She didn’t get a bunch of American designers to copy Japanese fashion. She wore actual Japanese designers. I love it. That’s how you show appreciation for a culture, without appropriating from that culture.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video! ❤️🔥‼️
This was a well made cute video, reminds me of 00s smh I love it
Ughhhh I need more videos like these!!! Especially her harajuku pop era!!
7:23 was literally one of the most iconic outfits known to man
So glad i lived the harajuku era🫡
The amount of research you put to assemble this is amazing! Loved this fashion analysis.
Omgg i would love to see u do more dives into different fashion or icons love this vid❤
I remember every girl on Facebook was Harajuku Barbie in 2009 and 2010
that new look she debuted in at the movie premiere broke my heart as a kid i couldn’t believe she wasn’t in her harajuku era anymore
Ur an Og?
very thats another reason why i was so hopeful for this new album cause i was expectin the harajuku barbie aesthetic photoshoots back but we never got anythin like it. unfortunately our icon is long gone cause of bullyin
@@markroman8226 and we not even getting music videos, and I hate the fact that she is celebrating all of her alter ego’s in the pinkfriday 2 tour except Harajuku Barbie
@@Momolo328 no fr i think it comes from bein ridiculed by the media and hip hop in general which i get but damn a nod would’ve been nice or even an old school mv
@@markroman8226 hey team minaj 👋🏽right the nicki we knew is long gone because of the hate train hopefully she heals
Great video.
👸🏼👸🏻👸🏾👸🏿Gyaru style is for anyone, ignorant people don't realise that it's supposed to be a fun girly expression and they never think about the inspiration behind all subsections, western inspired, from victorian dolls in frills with big hair to to graffiti art and the confident women who hung out on such streets. Harajuku is one of its most popular subcatagories which became massively when Japan was at it's most trendy around the early 00s and unfortunately many who got into it were stuck up, generally middle class, westerns who used it as escapism from society and gatekept away those who's 'faces don't fit', they're no different from those who don't want 'certain people' to enjoy or have any part in middle earth fantasy, only difference is a lot of the harajuku fans grew out of it because it was a fad for them, a lot like the closely related goth.
That was very informative!! Thank you I enjoyed that video a lot! 🎀💖
Incredibly powerful video. Grateful for this.
Love thisss!💖 My PF2 concert look is harajuku Barbie inspired☺️
this was soo cute! love 💕
We love Nicki because she loved and respected us so much!
I love all the sound affects 🎉
Very well put together!
I love the Japanese school girl look she did for the lonely Island music video
i miss harajukunika so much.. she kinda came back in her pregnancy pics but :(
Nicki Minaj was not the first American to embrace the Japanese Harajuku style....Gwen Stefani was in 2003/2004....Respectfully. ❤
If you watched the video, she never said Nicki was the first. She mentioned Gwen Stefani. But for Gen Z and younger millennials, Nicki was our first introduction to it.
I love the aesthetic of your video with the transitions
Cute video! Really got me hoping for more Harajuku looks from Nicki.
Omg this vid is so cute, and brought me right back to my middle school days falling in love with Nicki for the first time
omg all your outfits are too cute 😻🎀
I loved it 😩
Loved this 💕
love this video and ur editing style!!! subbed
She mothered this whole era
❤❤❤ loved it!
You have no idea how obsessed I am with this video. Was doing my research for my Pink Friday Roman Reloaded video I’m going to put together, and stumbled across this. She has no idea how life changing and eye opening Pink Friday era and Pink Friday Roman Reloaded era was for some of us….and what that awakened in some of us. The whole movement the colorfulness the brightness….all of it all really was our escape from our reality into a world that we lived in that where some of our happiest moments growing up. This video is everything bby and I’m obsessed with you for loving what I grew up loving. 🩷💕 hope my bby sees this video >
awhh, this comment was so sweet, and it truly warms my heart to read. this year, i turn 21 in august, and been looking up to nicki minaj since i was a child. i adore the work nic's put in. but wowzers, i love reading comments like this because it makes me think like, 'dang if little kid me read this about nic, i'd be super exicited for her to read too.'. bless you!! xoxo
Beautiful video you did your thing!
loved this video, i think you really spoke for a lot of the barbz! 🎀
Loved this video ❤ I shared it with my fellow Barbs. Great job .
i love her outfits ughhh
i love that pretty much every american popstar has their own harajuku fiasco
loved this video!
I hope nicki watches this❤ from barb to barb❤
Yessss clock that tea
Ok but you ate every single look in this video 🤌💕
Loved this era of fashion her best I say 💖🦄
omg i loved this🥲💗💗💗🎀
I loved this video so much!! i've been a Barb since 2011 and I miss her Harajuku days!
Im no Nicki fan but a lot of those comments were so uncalled for and very rude. Looking back on those looks, they're actually really cute in hindsight. Like, theybeat actually, so camp. Very unfair for people to say that ahe doesn't DESERVE to participate in these subcultures, who are you to say that?? Who are you to be a gatekeeper of a style you dont own??
Even though I think she was absolutely gorgeous during her "mature" era, I think there's something to be said about how mainstream media reacts to black women conforming to the societal pressures of being "normal".
Yr women are always praised for having whimsy and being different but black women are either not recognized for their innovation or just expected to be normal and conform to the style that they think is best. We have to only be one way to be seen in the room.
This era of Nicki unironically got me into Jfashion way back when!! It'll be 12 years of me wearing it soon :,)
I’m glad the algorithm put you on my timeline this was girlie af I love it also a barb (I’m 30 now idk if I can still be a barb 🤭) but the harajuku era had my friends and I in a chokehold now I live in a lil pink world at home. Ty 🩷🌸✨
such a good video!
The editing 👍
This was soooooooo good
This was such a cute video u ate that
PLEASE make a video about lady gaga and her connections to Japanese fashion 🎉 new subscriber! This is such a great debut and your channel is going to blow up. Keep going!!!