worst Nicki Minaj song on the radio right now

yeah her verse on the Mariah song is especially gruesome, i think in part because she's in a lower register than usual and almost sounds like some kind of parody of 90s Lil Kim

actually now i look at it i could say similar for the usher, thicke, luda - minaj in her own lane i can handle and even kinda enjoy in some ways, but her inadvertant distortion of the people hiring her swag is what really grates.

lol that ladypoptimist talk reminded me - forks is it time to compare notes yet?

Teyana Taylor's 'Google Me'

yeah --- i thought about not including "I Get Crazy" here both because it peaked a while ago and because it's a lot less annoying to me than the others in part because it's more her doing her than established stars just jumping on the next big post-Drake bandwagon

weirdly the video actually made me come round slightly to the mariah verse - i think the problem there is more that any guest verse would rupture "up out my face" unnecessarily

i wonder if she consciously goes into OTT mode for bigger artists who are going to get a lot more attention, b/c her guest spots on lloyd's "take it off", cassie's "fuck u silly", mya's "ponytail" and obv the unofficial "sweet dreams" one are all completely amazing and don't have the slight grating quality that rtc pinpoints for her mariah/usher ones.

not too sure about that - i couldve imagined being mildly entertained by maybe a lowkey fabolous verse on 'up out my face' for instance but no way would it have been a panicking misguided conceptual reboot the way the minaj version is.

"google me" was a jam imo

haven't really felt any of these computernerd-themed joints since masta ace 'sittin on chrome' came out tbh.

there are things i like about "lil freak" but i'm leaning towards voting for it for the way she says "everybody loves rrrrrraaaayyyymond"

just realized that the closest antecedent to nicki's style is the blizzard man: http://www.hulu.com/watch/18879/saturday-night-live-blizzard-man

― OMG Thanx Jeezy (some dude), Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha today Big Tigger was talking about the Usher song and thought she was saying "everybody loves reindeer"

i can't tell if that's less funny because she names the all reindeer or more funny -- i'm inclined to say the latter

yeah totally more -- was basically losing my shit when he got a deluge of calls from kids correcting him

um... only song I don't like here is "up oUt my face" remix... "bedrock" is awful too but I love the chorus and nicki's verse so that gets a pass... and "Lil Freak" is my single of the year so far and I'm really confused as to why no one here seems to like it.......... anyway Nicki is the best part of all of these songs besides "Up Out My Face"

one of Nicki's better guest verses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMvdsMLzpaE

I'm Nicki Minaj, Nicki Lewinsky, Nicki the Ninja, Nicki the Boss, Nicki the Harajuku Barbie

Voted "Bedrock" btw but I haven't heard a couple of the others. In twenty years when TV shows make fun of 2010s "Minajamania," that's the song that'll get played so whatev.

I kinda like bits of what she does when I hear them but GOD is she unbearable on video. Her bits on "Up Out My Face" for example are kinda okay - it's like seeing her make the goofy faces and camp it up really calls attention to how affected the goofy voices and campy rapping is. Which OK, is about what you'd expect somebody to do but I wish it was delivered more po-facedly. Just reminds me of high-school sketch comedy or local improv night, trying too damn hard.

a lot of ny rap/pop writers are stanning for this woman like she's something significantly more than a court jester, or that she posses any talent beyond parlaying ho-rap photoshoots into a fake lady gaga schtik that is noteworthy because rap and pop music is totally devoid of personality, even annoying manufactured ones like this. she can spit a hot verse or two but most of the time she just sounds like a 6 year old who hasn't been diagnosed with ADD. she's an alright radio presence cuz it's genuinely funny to listen to her rap now, and there is a slight chance that she'll say something dope, but acting like there's anything beyond that is really fishing for angles where there aren't any. mainstream rap writers missed out on gucci mane & propping nicki up ain't gonna cut it.

her turn from good but spotty female rapper to robin williams on coke jabbermouth mirrors lil wayne's sudden style switch up/drop in quality minus give or take four classic albums/mixtapes

― Yo cassidy is so hot. He blowin up really big. His freestyles are si (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 08:19 (2 days ago)

i pretty much don't know anything about rap, but i love nicki, and her rapping makes me very happy

it's like seeing her make the goofy faces and camp it up really calls attention to how affected the goofy voices and campy rapping is.

yeah, this is otm

yeah her first big video appearance in "5 Star" was horrifying/hilarious to me, like just suddenly realizing how far she was gonna take the weird posture and bug eyes and fembot mannerisms at the exact moment it was clear she was about to be pretty ubiquitous for a while

I rationalize all these bad rappers by saying "at least he ain't Petey Pablo"

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i really miss the times when i would hear songs on the radio

do you just no longer own a car or did you used to have a radio and got rid of it or what

I rationalize all these bad rappers by saying "at least he ain't Nelly"

got rid of car in 2001
stopped watching MTV around 2005

like the only way i know popular songs exist is via what people say and link on the internet and that makes me feel so disconnected and kills me inside

i dunno i like the idea of having more control over what to listen to. the local stations here tended to do stuff in 2001 like play Ginuwine's "My Whole Life has Changed" and Usher's "U Got It Bad" every hour on the hour, and I liked both songs but it was like how many times did I need to hear it in a day?

and like even though i "listened to more records than christgau" (or whatever that article said) in 2009, that was still 100% via promo CDs and pirated zips and rars from leak blogs. i heard 1,000 ALBUMS, not singles.

i literally have no way of hearing a "hot single" unless i turn off what i'm listening to and click a YouTube link.

And that makes me feel awful

like the only way i know popular songs exist is via what people say and link on the internet and that makes me feel so disconnected and kills me inside

― zsockster (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 27, 2010 9:46 AM Bookmark

feel u dude, I haven't had a car or tv since september. it's a weird feeling.

yeah same to an extent, when i'm at school i mostly hear radio songs via friends' cars or checking what the hits are on billboard's site & youtubing them - during breaks and shit it's such a great feeling to be able to drive around and listen to the radio, regardless of how bad the songs are

Eh, I'm on the fence about her shtick. This song is pretty good, though...
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^ sorry, I'm no good at embedding vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaFqr3vzvdk

really think "saxon" is fucking incredible

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like the only way i know popular songs exist is via what people say and link on the internet and that makes me feel so disconnected and kills me inside

― zsockster (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 27, 2010 9:46 AM Bookmark

feel u dude, I haven't had a car or tv since september. it's a weird feeling.

― The Reverend, Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:48 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not being glib or anything, but u guys should get like a little walkman or clock radio or one of those waterproof dealies that can go in the shower, imo a few minutes a day of radio listening is nice. tbh i don't know why FM radios aren't part of the package with iPods, i know why include a dead technology with the hot new thing etc. but it seems like a no-brainer to me.

Not really a "no-brainer" since Apple wants you to fill your iPod with songs you pay them money for, not listen to for free. But I totally agree w/ your premise. Kicking back with the FM radio now and then can be a good thing.

yeah especially living in new york, good god

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"my chick bad" = sorely underrated in this poll

yeah that song is all kinds of ugh

iPod Nanos come with radio now...

oh, huh my ipod does have radio. didn't notice that before.

the Mariah single is a snooze.

so weird that so many of my favourite joints right now are nicki or nicki-featuring tracks, but apart from "shakin' it 4 daddy" i'd consider these crossover radio hits pretty inessential

cover of The Fader

"People come up to me wherever I am, girls—sexy girls—like, 'Can you sign my boob?'." -Nicki Minaj

yeah especially living in new york, good god

― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:08 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I MISS THE RADIO IN CAR

i feel u -- but yall need to get one (1) clock radio if you have access to pop/hip-hop & r&b radio in a major market

i have one actually. i can't believe i haven't though of this before. 6pm pop radio hour? this is like a new ritual, i can feel it.

duh!

if anyone has doubted her lady gaga complex, nicki has supposedly hired gaga's management

tbh minaj has never worn, said or done anything that struck me as obviously gaga-esque or gaga inspired

like "moment 4 life" -> "aston martin music" should not be allowed (even tho M4L has my favorite drake verse)

the worst is when i'm flipping between the 3 balt/d.c. rap stations and sometimes i'll hear Young Money on all 3 (or just Nicki on all 3, or all Drake, or all Trey Songz, or all Chris Brown). that kind of thing happens frighteningly often.

How is the stepson line a grocerybag line lex?

oh it's not! i was quoting it separately to my comment about grocery bagging.

Haha I was trying to work out what "You ain't my son you my muhhfucking #stepson" might mean.

so which tracks are actually the official singles atm? j0rdan says "roman's revenge" and "did it on em" are getting airplay, i heard "super bass" was gonna be a single, she's done a video for "fly" and i just got a promo single of "girls fall like dominoes".

I thought "Super Bass" was a bonus track? Or did she wise up?

yeah idk what's an official single or not -- i have a feeling that "roman's revenge" & "did it on em" are not official singles bcuz neither is edited for radio beyond straight silencing of the curses but that isn't exactly scientific of course

oh yeah i've heard the drake/nicki song off 'thank me later' ("what bitch you know made a million off a mixtape?") on the radio twice in the past two days

yeah, as is "girls fall like dominoes" - i guess she wised up! plus she's been taking lots of twitter feedback, which i assume is mostly along the consensus lines. also "super bass" got a ton of attention when taylor and selena covered it. also it's such a fucking obvious pop smash!

i assume "girls fall like dominoes" will just be the UK single given the big pink sample (i assume they're british)

you're also assuming that they're dead right?

well dude doesn't exactly sound in peak health to me

"Did It On Em" is definitely an official single -- i mean it's already in the top 10 of the R&B chart. basically it's been "Your Love," "Right Thru Me," "Moment 4 Life," then that, but since it's a huge hit album obv other songs are gonna get videos or pockets of airplay. it's rare these days any rap album keeps getting promoted w/ singles once it's been out 6 months, though, so no idea if anything will get a big push after "Did It On Em" runs its course.

i haven't played this album in full a second time since I bought it. some good songs but mostly only the bonus tracks.

'bedrock' is like a fun summer version of 'black and yellow' ―dayo, Saturday, April 2, 2011 7:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Wow. Just.....

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http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/Chancecdr/gudda.jpg

were they on The Real World or something

well the video had a "7 strangers picked to live in a house and dismantle the art of punchline rap together" theme

i somehow only heard up out my face remix the other day for the first time, had forgotten how much i loved the original but: best minaj verse imo love her in a softer 90's pop rn'b setting

good lord her new single is awful, even by her latter-day standards

heinous song