We aren’t really sure what the age credentials are for landing a Teen Vogue cover, but Nicki Minaj seemed to be targeting just the demographic the magazine was looking for.
The 30-year-old American Idol judge glammed up in her Technicolor digs once again, after earlier ditching them for a more grown and sexy look. Laced up in a floral corset, Nicki posed for the lens of Sebastian Kim on the cover and corresponding shoot.
Aside from learning a bit about what the teens are into today, here are 4 things we learned from Nicki Minaj’s Teen Vogue feature, as she gave some pretty sound advice to the kids.
1. She thinks the music industry is a lot like high school:
“People treat this business like it’s high school. It can absolutely feel like one big popularity contest, and you know what? I can’t be bothered. I can’t allow myself to play ridiculous games with grown adults in the industry. I can’t be nice to someone just because they’re hot right now. I can’t do it.”
2. She doesn’t read the mean things people post about her:
“I used to read the bad things people said about me, then I asked myself, ‘Why am I reading that when I have millions of people saying great things?’ You cannot give negativity power.
3. She will not think twice about deleting that Twitter page again:
“I tell teens, if you’re having a problem, there’s nothing wrong with deleting your social media. If people keep taunting you and you keep reading it, it’s poison.”
4. She got her tough girl “don’t F with me” attitude from having to move a lot as a child:
“Every time my parents fought, my mother would have us move and I would have to go to a new school, which meant I’d have to face the task of making new friends. I dreaded it. I had butterflies in my stomach each time: Are people going to like or hate me? … Sometimes there’d be a fight, sometimes not. I let people know I wasn’t going to be pushed around.”
SOURCE: Fashion Bomb Daily
