Music / NewsNicki Minaj's Anaconda cover is your new favourite memeIf you looked like this, Botticelli would paint you into ‘The Birth of Venus’ tooShareLink copied ✔️July 29, 2014MusicNewsTextZing Tsjeng Nicki Minaj may have pushed back the release date for her new single "Anaconda", but the cover art for the track already has an online life of its own. Minaj debuted the song's artwork five days ago, where it quickly racked up over a quarter of a million likes (because seriously, dat a$$). Almost immediately, internet pranksters and Barbz everywhere started photoshopping Minaj into just about everything you can think of: the Google logo, Disney films, Seinfeld... There's even a sub-genre on Tumblr devoted to splicing Minaj into classic works of art: Nicki in Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"Nicki in Edouard Manet's "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" The "Pills N Potions" singer seems equal parts tickled and exasperated with the memes floating around the internet. She spent this weekend regramming several choice images before telling her Instagram fans that they might need to chill with the remixing a little bit. "The Statue of Liberty tho y'all?" she wrote next to one image that replaced Lady Liberty with Minaj in her drop-and-squat pose. "Praying y'all find y'all chill on this fine Sunday." Minaj must be pleased with the viral reaction to "Anaconda", especially seeing as its artwork initially attracted some controversy for being too raunchy. Let's just say, you know your image has some serious cultural currency when people start copying and pasting it over Jesus in "The Last Supper". "Anaconda", the second single off Minaj's forthcoming third album The Pink Print, drops on 4th August. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREA deep dive into the fan-led SOPHIE archive projectThe secret history of Black British music Nike Airmaxxing with singer-songwriter Simone RuthSilvana Estrada: ‘Bad Bunny is my hero, but Latin America is a continent’ The ultimate guide to music festivals in 2026Stop calling Justin Bieber’s Coachella set ‘lazy’Xaviersobased’s online obsessions: NBA 2K, skate videos and NickelodeonQueer nightlife is thriving in Bucharest’s abandoned backroomsThe rise of Rico Ace in 5 tracksSwedish House Mafia unpack their Miami Ultra festival mega-set2Slimey isn’t here to be a meme artist: ‘I want a fucking Grammy’ Nourished by Time: ‘Music should be fun – but it can’t be fun all the time’Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy