You’re in the jungle. You’re surrounded by beautiful women. And Sir Mix-A-Lot’s great classic “Baby Got Back” is playing. No, this isn’t your last wet dream. It’s just the video for “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj.

Released on August 19, the video sees Minaj and lady company shaking what their mama/a higher power/whoever gave them in various places like the aforementioned jungle and the gym; she raps witty one-liners like “dick bigger than a tower / I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout Eiffel” as she winks at her audience.

Minaj has created something that so effortlessly encapsulates this generation, despite the video’s derisive backlash from its very members. How so? I thought you’d never ask.

First, it samples something from 1992. From stealing the fashion to posting Nirvana on #throwbackthursday, to paraphrase MTV, we love the 90s. (And, I cannot find confirmation of this anywhere, but I swear I hear a sound bite of a dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park before it kills Newman from Seinfeld. If this is true, it solidifies the 90s shtick. It also renders every other song irrelevant.)

Second, the satirization of tackiness and opulence is done better than Lana Del Rey or Lorde could ever. Minaj becomes a contemporary Gatsby: this decadence and excess is her party; to tell all the women of the world that they are perfect just the way they are, her American dream.

Third, we know the “era of the big booty” was ushered in long before Vogue said so — they’re late to most, if not all, good parties — and Minaj proves that Anna Wintour shouldn’t rush to put white skin on every trend. (Minaj teaching models of NYFW the dance should also tell you.)

Fourth, Minaj uses her sexual agency to be alluring, but never relinquishes any of the power she has over the viewer. She is using her visibility to empower the women who have been constantly told they do not fit the societal definition of what they should look like or be. If you sincerely believe she is just “shaking her ass and selling out,” you truly did not watch this video right.

Fifth, at the 3:20 mark, she eats a banana, breaks it in half, then cuts it into pieces. This is symbolism, people. (Don’t go forgetting everything your high school English teacher taught you.) I feel like this needs no explanation of what it stands for. But if you’re still not getting that Minaj holds all the fucking cards, watch Drake after he gets the lap dance of the century and she just drops the mic and walks away. It’s much more obvious then.

Pop culture today is all about reworking stuff from the past, through a modern lens and with modern actors. It doesn’t just have to be skinny white people setting trends anymore and women don’t need to be objects to be sexy. Minaj shows that power and confidence make her the sexiest woman in the room. If you’re going to call what she’s doing narcissistic while you’re taking selfies, that’s hypocritical. She’s echoing your culture back to you.

Just admit it and embrace it, y’all. “Anaconda” speaks to you in a way that highbrow culture never has, and this is the new intellectual media.

Or, more succinctly: MY ANACONDA DOES.