Bottoms Up by Trey Songs & Nicki Minaj

Bottoms up  can refer to 2 things. There is the first meaning which is bottles up (have the drinks up, so when you finish the drink others can see the bottom of the bottle up in the air).

Another meaning is bottom as booty. The gluteus maximus is constantly being referred as the behind, the junk in the trunk, one can also see it as a bottom (opposite of top referring to the upper body). Adding 'up' at the end complicates the meaning.

Bottoms (butt)  up as in 'up in the air'. This only happens during sex, when the butt is elevated from the bed. This is most famously referred to as the doggy style position.

Bottoms up, the complete meaning is referring to girls giving it up, preferely in the doggy style position. Of all sex positions, one could argue this is the least intimate of all. The guy is having sex with a person but only visually seeing the butt area, which is highly arousing to some men. It is in this position the person is not visually seeing the face. It is very easily focus on the pleasure of the sex rather than sharing the moment with a person (very differently than missionary in which partners can look into each others eyes).

So that is the breakdown of both meanings. Which one is Nicki and Trey Songs referring to? Well let's see.

The song plays on the bottoms up as the first meaning. Bottles facing up therefore someone has  their drink up and closer to being drunk. However upon looking at the video and a closer look at the lyrics points more to the second meaning, girls 'giving it up'. It being their bodies, all towards the fulfillment of a male fantasy.

Let's take a look at the lyrics:

He is inviting every 'girl in the world' to give it up to him. And 'shake it in their jeans'. Shaking in the jeans is an invitation to the guy, beginning of arousal. He gets aroused by seeing the goods shaking in front of him. Like animals giving a mating call, the guy is drawn to the girl.

The reference to every girl in the world, just like the doggy style, is a separation from the connection of bodies through sex from the person who you are sharing the moment with. The act becomes more important than the person. Trey doesn't care who he sleeps with, it could be any girl from any part of the world. This part is also a nod to the summer hit "I want to Fuck every girl in the world" by Lil Wayne. This song is about fantasy and the desires of his flesh. It is the fantasy since one man can't sleep with every girl in the world. That is half the population!! But it hints at wanting something and it's never enough. It doesn't fill you so you have to come back for more, hoping the next conquest fills the emptiness the others left you.

Next part of the song: How does Trey plan to seduce the girls? While he instructs them to  shake their goodies, what does he have to offer?

"I'm a walking bank." He thinks by being a celebrity and getting paid more than most of the population assures him the right to have anyone he wants. Society has no problem with this. But you would have a problem dating someone who thinks that way. This is called a player, someone who cannot control their sexual desires.

 Trey knows money means security. Women like to be secure, safe and taken care of, so this can be appealing to them. However, only in marriage will you have legal access to the guy's money. Before that, any dinners and gifts he gives, it's out of choice.

 Let's think about this for a little. Any girl from 'anywhere in the world' has to have a hot body, shake their goodies to attracts the men. The guy flaunts himself as a 'walking bank.' Is this a strip club or a club??? Only in a strip club women are so hungry they will do anything (and let the guys do anything to their bodies) to get money. By offering money for the women's services (giving it up, having sex, sexual touch), this transanction is too close to prostitution. Although the song points to a regular club, the video points more to a strip club. The women are behind glass, to be watched and desired.

But this is not to say that the first meaning of 'Bottoms Up' has lost all revelancy.  There is also a lot of emphasis on drinking throughout the song. The idea is to have sex after getting drunk. Go to the club, drink until you can't walk. Shake butt in jeans (like jingling keys an invitation to come up).  The dancing seduces the guy, now he wants to have sex. If this doesn't do it, then grinding of the sexual parts against each other, only with a few strips of clothes between them, will do the trick. The girl can then end up at some baller's house ('the walking bank guy') getting ready to get it in.

'Bottoms Up.' Clever but dirty. Double pun like Shakespeare in his day.

Let's move on to the video.
The video is full of girls which we don't see their face (another nod to doggy style).  The video mostly focuses on thighs and butt area. They bend, they squeal, they are strippers; no matter how much Trey sets the song lyrics in a regular club. That scene is a physical representation of what the guys want to do to the girls. Don't see their face, enjoy their thighs and butt areas, get aroused, and get off.

Strippers mean fantasy, however in this song the guy expects to conquer. Not a stripper. But a regular girl at the club. The guy's fantasy could become reality. No matter the scene of the video, we all know this is a club song.

If you combine both meanings of bottoms up, what do you have??
"Bottoms up, bottoms up"speaks of a ritual. Party, drink, then have sex.

If you think me too prude, ask any college guy. They know a drunker a girl gets, the higher their chances of "hitting it." Guys pass this knowledge to other guys for generations. Yea sorry if it's first time you hear it. You have been warned.

This song has no morality. No question or thought for tomorrow. It doesn't flaunt any of the possible consequences for these actions. It's not a commercial for liver cancer (consequence of bringing too many bottoms up), addiction, rape, or oh yeah: kids. Like the movie 'Knocked up' warns: don't drink and bone.

No morals? You say? This is just a fun club song!!! You defend. You are being sold a lifestyle every time it comes on. Trey glamorizes being drunk with the phrase 'alcohol hero.' I never knew throwing up in toilets late at night was glamorous. Or babysitting your friend because they are too drunk to function. And you go ask a family of a drunkard if it's fun. Alcohol hero!!! Please.

But we know this is  going to be a shady song from the beginning. Trey calls himself 'Mr. Steal Your Girl.' With no respect to previously agreed upon sanctions, his plan is to get a girl so drunk she can't walk then seduce get to so something she will regret in the morning. This is your idea of a fun night?

Nicki Minaj  part.

Double meaning in Mary Mary.

Mary Mary is a Christian music gospel duo. It sounds like she is repeating Mary for sound effect but this is actually a double meaning pun, again a technique popularized by Shakespeare in his day.

She then adds another religious reference "Mary and Joseph," the earthly parents of Jesus Christ. Why is Nicki Minaj putting all this religious references in a song about "Bottoms up"" <--- unholy activity?

Because it's a technique. It makes things less shocking. By putting holy things in a unholy song it takes away the effect of the potency of religion. It makes it seem like the activity is 'ok'. Just like Kei$ha says 'I got Jesus on my necklace" in her song 'we are who we are.' This insensitivy to regilion is similar to the feeling of sin. The more you sin the less the effect becomes. At first you feel horrible or even guilty but then it becomes common, each time the hurt of falling into sin becomes less painful.

'Say hi to Anna Nicole Smith.'
A woman used so much by the industry. She was messed up, drugged up most of the time. Incredibly beautiful in her Guess model days.  She died a horrible death. Nicki Minaj suggesting she say hi to Mary and Joseph suggesting she thinks Anna Nicole Smith went to heaven. No comment on that one.

'Now bottoms up' (as in let me pay my respects to the dead by  drinking.) This reminds me of the hood videos where is someone died and the friends throw liquor on the grave. I never got that.
I guess liquor is a depressant and it helps people heal when they are hurting. By temporarily drinking away the pain, it's a moment of reflection of the person that previously passed. Maybe that's it.

Botttoms up? What does it mean? Drink all the way so I can see the bottom of your drink or bring your 'bottom' up to fuck? I think the song means both, a double pun. Clever, full of wit. Preferably  one following the other.

 You don't have to agree. This is just my analysis. Looking at it a little deep. This is, the critic.