Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

WHEN I'M SITTIN WITH ANNA, I'M REALLY SITTIN WITH ANNA

http://style.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nicki-minaj-anna-wintour.jpg

AIN'T A METAPHOR PUNCHLINE, I'M REALLY SITTIN WITH ANNA

Another exceptionally lame interview by S Hattenstone for the Grauniad; warning, some of the most stupid questions ever asked in any interview are present here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/27/nicki-minaj-bigger-balls-than-the-boys

haha i yelled at my computer when i read that thing. so many interesting questions to ask! none of them asked! i learn not one single new thing about nicki.

might as well have got a random commenter to do it in the spirit of ~open journalism~

"i'm really sitting with anna"
who?

― billstevejim, Monday, April 30, 2012 4:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this line really bothers me, makes nicki sound like a try-hard. if you get to sit with anna, no need to brag about it!

the westwood interview wasn't much better

xpost i dunno who that is, but i guess she's a big deal since it's mentioned 3 times
either way it sounds cool in the song

anna wintour!!!

omg

shocked that billstevejim doesn't hear the name "anna" and instantly think "anna wintour," shocked.

BOTTLE / SIP / BOTTLE / GUZZLE / I'M A BAD BITCH NO MUZZLE

people who don't acknowledge the greatness of "pound the alarm" = fronting imo

LONDON

who is attending her show on sunday

I AM

FUCK WHO YOU WANT AND FUCK WHO YOU LIKE
THAT'S OUR LIFE THERE'S NO END IN SIGHT

i can't believe i ever hated "starships"!!!! i just blasted it out of my window and sang along to every word and enjoyed every moment.

it's kind of like the OPPOSITE of a memento mori club banger - we are immortal, we were born for this and there will never be a comedown~~~

I still have mixed feelings about the track despite having very clear feelings abt the rap half of the record vs the pop half.

song is pretty whatever... if it was jessie j or something i'd give it slightly more credit but nicki is capable of much better

My wife is obsessed with it and its starting to grow on me the more I hear it, but it certainly does gain something in being heard flying down the highway on a nice summer day.

hearing this song constantly on the radio while my wife is driving just makes me want to murder

the 'higher than a mf' dance part of the song is by far the best part of "Starships" imo, hearing Nicki spit so-so bars over "Raise Your Glass" is whatever

I really like "Starships". At the Nicki concert I went to, that song got by far the biggest response from the fans, even bigger than "Super Bass". I was surprised.

yeah the "higher than a motherfucker" followed by the shameless breakdown is amazing.

i'm glad i caved into it before seeing nicki live - it went OFF here as well

so pleased Lex has done a 180 on this song :)

Is the Ghetto Barbie compilation CD that suddenly appeared in Europe earlier this month worth the money?

lol there would be a nicki minaj album entitled "ghetto barbie" on sale in europe

Would usually disagree with stripping out elements deemed 'mainstream', but quite enjoying this mix of Minaj tracks re-edited with most choruses removed:

http://soundcloud.com/ryi2012/ryj-minajmix

her singing is definitely a bigger problem for me than dance beats or w/e

I really liked that - and had never heard her rap over grindin' before

Yeah, this is kinda cool, anti-poptimist implications aside. Lots of my favorite raps by her, plucked from songs that otherwise involve having to put up with some crappy guest artist or w/e.

http://thewire.co.uk/articles/9613

haha that was made by VLADISLAV DELAY and AGF???!!!! amazing

wow, "massive attack" kind of gets wrecked by this though, some kind of bad synchronization or something

Only just noticed this AGF mix -- brilliant stuff.

I wish it was downloadable. Streaming rap is useless

dl

sharships is a grower for sure. she's the rap equivalent of prince, and starships is her "i wanna be your lover" but if the label keeps her on through the slow-sales-critical-acclaim and lets her do her own thing eventually she's gonna come at us with something insanely unstoppable?

i tried this argument on with someone yesterday and they countered "or, maybe she's great for a guest verse but just doesn't have it in her to be a mega pop star" and i was thinking well maybe this could be true too, but then they said "also i don't really like prince" and i was like THEN UR ARGUEMTN IS CLEARLY INVALID!!! and quickly changed the subject

but if the label keeps her on through the slow-sales-critical-acclaim and lets her do her own thing eventually she's gonna come at us with something insanely unstoppable?

maybe i'm reading this wrong but isn't she already a mega pop star? isn't starships already insanely unstoppable? am i dreaming?

starships is dope cant believe ppl ever hated it

well the chorus is dope anyway

there's something ungainly about the HO HO HO HO post-chorus part, i just envision cliche old german men hoisting beer steins

points against starships:

- redone
- namechecking bud light and patron in the first verse
- the video
- ho ho ho post-chorus "rave" part

points for:

- Jump in my hoopty hoopty hoop / I own that
And I ain't paying my rent this month / I owe that
But f-ck who you want, and f-ck who you like
Dance all night, there's no end in sight
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
- impossible not to sing along to

the post-chorus rave bit of "starships" is amazing

i love the "pound the alarm" video, bit of a pleasing wrongfooter in how it blithely elides two hitherto separate nickis, mainstream pop nicki and island carnival nicki. kind of want to hear the full steel pan remix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrqA93sW-8

the post-chorus rave bit of "pound the alarm" is also amazing

yea i'm not sure why i like it more there but that is the way to do a good old pop-bosh-up imo

i was fuckin with starships from day one

still hate "Starships", feeling very lonely now but being right all the time is a difficult road

got your back, dude

I like all the EDM-pop songs on RR except "Starships" which is total bullshit.

I've also been f'in with starships for time, I'm glad consensus is swinging around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9rITLjKz8

YESSSSSSS this video

hahaha

colours are p garish imo but the rick ross part of that is great

I realize this is like a million and one videos, but for some reason in this one it really bothers me that Nicki is dressed like a stripper while the two dudes look normal. Really feel like there's been this creeping tendency in Nicki's stuff towards more and more sexualization of her body. And I realize that's been there for a long while but it was often cross-dosed with her being deliberately weird and OTT-looking. I'm thinking of the drag-queen vibe in "Massive Attack" or about half of "Stupid Hoe"...felt like between that, Gaga, and actually a goodly part of Ke$ha's career,* there was this nice trend of female pop stars who were willing to curdle the camera's hard-on, and now that's sort of dissipated (although it was probably just in my mind to begin with).

* Ke$ha obviously just as rife with exceptions as Minaj, but I'm thinking of things like the drag-queen look in "We R Who We R" or the expressly non-sexy glow paint sequence in "Your Love Is My Drug," and just generally the amount of clothing she always had on despite lyrical themes that would seem to veer close to "wild party time" stuff. And who was it that pointed that "Blow" went out of its way to never have anything to do with blowjobs (or cocaine for that matter) and was just about raving good times?