Like their pink workout-themed VMA performance on Sunday, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's "Side to Side" music video is also set at the gym—and is either the fitness class of your dreams or nightmares. Grande is the Barbie version of your SoulCycle instructor, in a pink leotard and hat with a hole cut in it so her ponytail can hang free.
Minaj hangs in the sauna with stationary, chiseled Ken-doll men.
The wardrobe is pink, incredible, and impractical for any actual workout. Grande's stilettos in the locker room say that much alone.
Perhaps it's a deeper commentary on the ridiculous pressure women face to always. look. good. even when they're at a hellish spin class, trying to survive but also impress other women with their cute(r) gym clothes. Or maybe it's just oiled-up eye candy. You be the judge:
