{"id":22951,"date":"2014-11-05T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=22951"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:13:44","slug":"coffee-break-violinist-lara-st-john-takes-on-anaconda-by-nicki-minaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/11\/05\/coffee-break-violinist-lara-st-john-takes-on-anaconda-by-nicki-minaj\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | Violinist Lara St. John takes on &#8216;Anaconda&#8217; by Nicki Minaj (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWqMdNduPmI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#!\/blogs\/2014\/11\/Nicki-Minajs-Anaconda-reimagined-by-violinist-Lara-St-John\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>) Released just today, virtuoso violinist Lara St. John has taken up the challenge to rework\u00a0Nicki Minaj\u2019s latest hit \u201cAnaconda\u201d. Renaming it \u201cAnachorda&#8221;, St. John hired out a number of well-known Vancouver musicians to help her bridge the great style divide. Her approach was to focus on the rhythmic element,\u00a0 rather than the controversial\u00a0lyrics, which have received some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxmagazine.com\/2014\/09\/nicki-minaj-and-meghan-trainor-miss-feminist-mark\/\">criticism<\/a>. The original is inspired by Sir Mix-a-Lot\u2019s\u00a0Baby Got Back, which is all about celebrating a \u201cbig butts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To compare\u00a0the two,\u00a0see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (Warning: some readers may find this video and lyrics offensive, and is not appropriate for work).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via) Released just today, virtuoso violinist Lara St. John has taken up the challenge to rework Nicki Minaj\u2019s latest hit \u201cAnaconda\u201d. Renaming it \u201cAnachorda&#8221;, St. John hired out a number of well-known Vancouver musicians to help her bridge the great style divide. Her approach was to focus on the rhythmic element,  rather than the controversial lyrics, which have received some criticism. The original is inspired by Sir Mix-a-Lot\u2019s Baby Got Back, which is all about celebrating a \u201cbig butts\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,4932],"tags":[5088,5087,1910,5086],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-05-at-1.59.33-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5Yb","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22951"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22960,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22951\/revisions\/22960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22951"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}