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I think 2015 - 2017 had the best integrity of pop cultural resets, starting from Adele, Beyonce up to Taylor.

In those 3 years, we had Bad Blood's music video, Adele with 25, Rihanna with ANTi, Gaga's 2 Oscar performances, Beyoncé releasing her magnum opus Lemonade, Gaga's SuperBowl, and Look What You Made Me Do. Those were pop events. 

Add more cultural resets here in this thread.

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Like her or not Nicki Minaj’s debut which open more doors for female rappers.

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Just now, SLAG said:

Like her or not Nicki Minaj’s debut which open more doors for female rappers.

Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliot, Lil Kim all existed before Nicki, just because she tried to negate their influence on her doesn’t make her special :awkney:

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Red Velvet

I'd also like to argue that Sour Candy -> How You Like That was also a cultural reset. :pray:

But ya'll ain't ready for that conversation.

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5 minutes ago, Runway said:

Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliot, Lil Kim all existed before Nicki, just because she tried to negate their influence on her doesn’t make her special :awkney:

They obviously paved the way but by the time Nicki was debuting they had already seen the peak of their careers and weren’t putting out music. I didn’t say she invented female rap, but she did open doors for female rappers.

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Just now, SLAG said:

They obviously paved the way but by the time Nicki was debuting they had already seen the peak of their careers and weren’t putting out music. I didn’t say she invented female rap. But she did open doors for female rappers.

But how did she open any doors when they were already open since the late 90’s :bear:  Also she got popular off RedOne, David Guetta and Dr Luke POP songs, there’s a reason why they called her gaga 2.0

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in terms of the impact, I guess I would lean into the visuals Gaga served during her debut/TFM era. She brought camp to the forefront, theatrics to everything she did, and while she wasn't the first bring these elements, I think her influence was really powerful and really fun

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SeIena Gomez

Unpopular opinion but Cheek To Cheek

the album kicked off an absolute 360 career change for one of the pop stars with the biggest downfalls ever 

queen ****! 

love ya tony 

lady gaga the grammys GIF by Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

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6 minutes ago, SLAG said:

Like her or not Nicki Minaj’s debut which open more doors for female rappers.

THIS.

None of the female rappers before Nicki reached her impact, her success, you name it... 

At her peak, she was literally everywhere.

The "Anaconda/Bang Bang" era was cultural reset :pray: I still remember it :bradley:

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5 minutes ago, Runway said:

But how did she open any doors when they were already open since the late 90’s :bear:  Also she got popular off RedOne, David Guetta and Dr Luke POP songs, there’s a reason why they called her gaga 2.0

She was known as Gaga 2.0 because of her outfits, not her music. Nicki's impact in female rap has been way bigger than the ones you listed below, which obviously paved the way the same way Madonna paved the way for all popstars today, but Nicki is the greatest female rapper, critics and numbers don't lie. She made female hip hop hot and mainstream again. 

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