From engaging in X-rated conversation with Lil Nas In her recent series of tweets, she took shots at Nicki Minaj after disclosing an alleged exchange between her and Spice.
Spice’s alleged texts called Minaj ungrateful and deluded, claiming she invited Minaj to collaborate on the title song of Greta Gerwig’s film. barbie. But according to the producers of barbie album, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Nicki Minaj was the first artist Greta Gerwig approached
In the alleged exchange, the New York artist claimed that Nicki Minaj attempted to seize most of Spice’s publishing rights to the song. Furthermore, the texts affirmed that the barbie the producers initially wanted Princess Diana rapper alone to play Barbie Worldpointing out that it was Ice Spice who invited Minaj to collaborate on the title track.
But Kevin Weaver, one of the producers of barbie album, indicated otherwise. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver recalled that they wanted to incorporate Minaj from the start for their version of Barbie Girl. This prompted him and his collaborators on the album to urge Greta Gerwig to write a letter to the Bang Bang rapper, which led the filmmaker to write a nice note to Nicki.
He recalled:
“We went up to Greta and asked her if she wanted to write a letter to Nicki, and Greta wrote this beautiful note to Nicki and basically said, ‘You’re Queen Barb and when I decided to do this film, as I was thinking about artists, you were the first artist that really came to me as someone who I thought was going to be a significant collaborator and contributor to this,”
The next morning, after the letter reached the Trinidadian rapper, she responded to them stating: “she was 100 percent”, And Barbie World ended up debuting at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Barbie World It was a full circle moment for Nicki Minaj
Appearing at barbieAt the premiere of , Nicki Minaj expressed her gratitude for being part of the film, which became the biggest release of 2023. Moreover, considering the Pink Friday Girls The singer has channeled the doll throughout her career and refers to her fans as “Barbz” working on the film project directed by Gerwig was a “very full circle moment”.
She told Entertainment Tonight:
“I’ve been saying Barbie my whole career. The circle is therefore closed. »
But Barbie World was the film’s only success, as seen in both Billie Eilish films. Why was I made and the universally acclaimed Ryan Gosling I’m just Ken made headlines as soon as they were released.
barbie is available for streaming on Max.
