Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus | 41

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The 2015 VMAs sparked a feud for the ages when Nicki Minaj coined an instantly iconic phrase for Miley Cyrus on stage: "Miley, what's good?" Miley's defensive response about manipulated interviews opened the floodgates, sending us all the way back to the wild west of early 2010s pop culture. In this episode, we'll unravel Nicki and Miley's thorny history leading up to that heated confrontation - from subtweets and shady interviews to photoshopped avatars and a bizarre reference to "purdue chicken."

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to diss and tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:09.0	A listener note, this episode contains strong language.
0:17.0	Matt, what comes to mind when I say the VMAs?
0:21.0	Honestly, VMAs are just mess.
0:23.5	That's all I can think of.
0:24.9	I mean, okay, Britney with the snake, iconic VMA's performance.
0:29.5	Yes.
0:30.0	Lady Gaga with the blood dripping down her.
0:32.7	I believe that was the VMAs.
0:34.6	And then just everybody is so messy at the VMAs, the very messy awards.
0:41.0	I think if you made like a word cloud for this podcast, you know, one of those where the
0:46.7	words used the most show up really big, mess would just be in the middle.
0:51.1	Yeah.
0:51.5	Because I think that's been our favorite word, though not without just cause.
0:55.4	Mm-hmm.
0:56.1	So in that same vein of messiness and the VMAs just being the ideal place for it,
1:04.1	we're in 2015 and Miley Cyrus is hosting the VMAs.
1:09.8	Okay.
1:10.5	And to flesh out that context a little bit more,
1:13.7	this is two years after she was running around with Robin Thick
1:17.5	and a foam finger.
	...

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