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It was the final debate question put to republican candidate Donald Trump and democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the third presidential debate. As the speaker questioned Senator Clinton on entitlement policies, Trump, for the umpteenth time, interrupted Clinton calling her a “nasty woman”. If his refusal to accept the election outcome (and essentially America’s democratic constitution) wasn’t already headline-worthy enough, this one ought to do it, we thought.

In one swift nasty call, Trump’s ridiculous argument that all the women who came forward to say he sexually assaulted them were simply “fame-hungry” was null and void. His argument that “no one respects women more than me” was null and void. And is anyone as infuriated as me that he only ever refers to Clinton as “she” and “her” while Clinton always addresses Trump as “Donald”? Proving a final time that “when they go low, we go high”, Clinton ignored the comment and calmly, yet defiantly, continued her point.

This Trump moment certainly didn’t go unnoticed, especially to the music-lovers of the world. While Etsy reported they had a “Nasty Woman” merchandise sales explosion, Twitter too erupted with memes and hashtags. Now, Spotify has announced streams of Janet Jackson’s 1986 track Nasty have increased by an insane 250% since the Trump comment.