Smart money bettin’ I be better off without you news now, and rap alien Iggy Azalea had a failed pop career before she found fame as ‘that person who sings on literally every song in the charts’. And guess what? Iggy Azalea’s pop career is embarrassingly bad.
Fans have unearthed a video of Iggy recorded between 2006 and 2010, when she first moved to America – the exact date of recording being vague, because Iggy Azalea is ageless, as most things made literally out of porcelain and horsehair are – and sees her gyrate in, between and around the bestocking’d legs of a bunch of dancers in a what is basically a very poor impression of Britney Spears during her Womanizer era.
The song has drawn comparisons with pre-Dirrty Christina Aguilera and the kind of hold music they might play when you’re on the phone to a strip club.
Iggy has attracted criticism recently for singing a rap verse on every song in the entire world not writing her own lyrics, after Nicki Minaj’s speech at last month’s BET Awards was thought to very heavily throw shade at fellow nominee Azalea. “What I want the world to know about Nicki Minaj is when you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it," Nicki Minaj’d, before throwing a number of poses and saying, "No shade". So: shade.
Anyway, today Iggy previewed the video for the meeting of minds that is her and Rita Ora’s new single, Black Widow. It’s 16 seconds of them clapping, basically: