ABSTRACT
This paper examines a recent trend in the work of female artists to appropriate and parody the hip-hop “booty video” and, in so doing, to address specific modes of female objectification that have their origins in the work of male artists. We interpret Lily Allen’s Hard out Here (2013), Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda (2014), and Beyoncé’s 7/11 (2014) as illustrative of this trend, and we connect each of these videos through intertextual references to the work of mainstream male artists. We suggest that these artists, relying upon an established intertext, adopt strategies of humor, hyperbole, and parody in order to enter and reclaim the discourse of the booty.
