Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Album Dropped November 2010

Barbie's in Hip-Hop

     Pop culture originally known as popular culture, can be defined as attitudes, trends, morals, opinions, and social influences in modern day and sometimes past living, according to me. Pop culture is ever changing to commercial of businesses for the purpose of consumption. Products, brands, and advertisements are created and modified to fit the current demand of modern day living. Article Base stated,

"It is also a term used to describe current cultural trends, and cultural trends of the past that have achieved enduring status, (2008)."

What's new, what's hot, and what's popular, all shape the status of pop culture. It is most important for businesses to understand the nature of pop culture to specifically development efficicent services or goods for consumers.

Barbie has for years molded little girls understandings of what dolls should like, what your body figure is "supposed" to be, what kind of boyfriend (ken) to have, and even what kind of car you should have. As Nicki Minaj debuted her Barbie themed album Pink Friday, the image of Barbie had been reinvented. Barbie had gone Hip-Hop and now not only were young girls mocking this Barbie, but adult women were too. Nicki Minaj had created a phenomenom with her Barbie image. Everyone wanted to be like Nicki Minaj, and moreover have everything Barbie.

Business everywhere capitalized on the craze and had everything out from Barbie chains, paraphernalia, and the Barbie company mocked a doll after the Hip-Hop artist. Other artist hooked on to Hip-Hop Barbie faddism, trying to be the next new Barbie.