Saweetie saluted Grace Jones on the icon’s 76th birthday Sunday (Might 19), and thanked her for uplifting the duvet artwork of the rapper’s latest single “NANi.”
“Completely satisfied birthday to THE ICON, Grace Jones,” she wrote on X. “thanks for the large print you’ve made in vogue, tradition & cuntiness. The inspiration behind the NANi cowl.”
The pose Saweetie is placing on the “NANi” single paintings is instantly impressed by the paintings for Jones’ 1985 best hits album Island Life, which options the almost-nude singer stretching her proper arm ahead, with a microphone in hand, and stretching her left arm backward, touching her proper foot that’s prolonged upward whereas her left leg stands robust. However the unattainable arabesque pose, captured by Jean-Paul Goude, is definitely a montage of photos of Jones placing completely different poses that had been minimize and pasted collectively. It additionally made Billboard‘s 100 Greatest Album Covers of All Time record at No. 27 final yr.
The “Icy Woman” MC recreated the picture for her “NANi” cowl, however as an alternative of holding a mic, she’s holding a lime-green hair dryer that’s blowing her bubblegum pink locks away. “we gon’ fkkk up the Summer season,” she wrote final week whereas formally asserting “NANi.”
Earlier this month on the 2024 Gold Gala — the place Saweetie acquired the first-ever Billboard Gold Music Honor throughout the occasion devoted to recognizing the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific changemakers in tradition and society over the previous yr — she advised Billboard on the purple carpet, “‘NANi’ is that lady. ‘NANi’ is most important character vitality.”
