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The cover Nicki Minaj  art of the album perfectly Nicki Minaj  captures Minaj’s approach to gender and beauty as performance. As Lisa Lewis  wrote of Madonna, Minaj “engages with Nicki Minaj  and hyperbolizes the discourse of femininity Nicki Minaj 

Appropriating Nicki Minaj  the Barbie image, and Nicki Minaj  taking it to its logical extreme, may actually be a way of subverting  white beauty ideals.Nicki Minaj 

It’s also worth noting that both Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj  use Barbie  as a means of allying themselves with girls and girl culture . Nicki Minaj  In Barbie’s world, clothes, exciting  Nicki Minaj  careers, and Malibu dream houses take precedence over Ken, Nicki Minaj is doomed to be a helmet-haired afterthought Nicki Minaj 

Since boys Nicki Minaj play with dolls tend to get Nicki Minaj  stigmatized in our culture, Barbie has traditionally been a toy that Nicki Minaj girls  play with by themselves or with other girls.Nicki Minaj 

.  When Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj sexy   call themselves Barbie , they’re appealing to a female fanbase Nicki Minaj hot 

Minaj also calls her fans Nicki Minaj  Barbz and Ken Barbz, which Nicki Minaj  has the effect of both de-fanging Nicki Minaj  some of Barbie’s harmful elements Nicki Minaj  (if everyone’s a Barbie, then everyone’s beautiful) and empowering Nicki Minaj  (she names her fans after herself).Nicki Minaj 

However, Barbie Nicki Minaj  functions as only one Nicki Minaj  component of the rappers’ images–as a counterpoint to Nicki’s rage-filled Nicki Minaj  Roman or Kim’s tough, Nicki Minaj  hardcore persona Nicki Minaj