Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

at this point nicki 2014 (inc the final days of 2013) kinda goes

1. lookin' ass
2. boss ass bitch (remix)
3. my n*gga (remix)
4. flawless (remix)
5. yasss bish!!
6. no flex zone (remix)
7. low
8. anaconda
9. chi-raq
10. she came to give it to you
11. touchin, lovin
12. danny glover (remix)
13. pills n potions

"Boss Ass Bitch" and "Danny Glover" are hot verses but most of the other stuff has just seemed to me like a lot of attitude, no real memorable moments or great lines

i did the math the other day and literally an entire third of "Pills N Potions" is the "I STILL LOVE I STILL LOVE I STILL LUH UH UH" part, which is just inexcusable.

1. lookin' ass
2. boss ass bitch (remix)
3. my n*gga (remix)
4. flawless (remix)
5. yasss bish!!
6. no flex zone (remix)
7. low
8. anaconda
9. chi-raq
10. she came to give it to you
11. touchin, lovin
12. danny glover (remix)
13. pills n potions

666. Bang Bang

"FUCK THEM SKINNY ASS BITCHES" screaming seems like tumblr essay bait.

lol i have a feeling someone is going to write a thinkpiece about this line and the similar one from the meghan trainor song if it hasn't happened already

the fake laughing in "Anaconda" is so fucking annoying

nah it's almost the best part

talk about damning w/faint praise

it's the most Female Weezy thing she's ever done

lol i have a feeling someone is going to write a thinkpiece about this line and the similar one from the meghan trainor song if it hasn't happened already

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/all-your-bass-are-belong-to-us

(robin james is good tho)

"boss ass bitch" remix is one of the craziest rap songs of the year and she spits on "lookin ass" and "chiraq" but i'm mostly with shiplo on this one

idk why but she cant release a good song to save her life rn

the trollingest thing i really believe that i've resisted trotting out in public over the last few months is that Iggy's album is really well produced and people would fall over themselves with praise if a Nicki album ever had those beats.

I don't think anyone's issue with Azalea is the beats.

I could believe that. Still not ever going to listen to an Iggy Azalia album tho.

sure, sure. i'm just saying, sonically it's almost precisely the rap/pop intersection i feel like people want out of a Nicki LP that she never seems to hit upon. obviously Nicki a big precursor to her sound too, but just interesting given how rudderless Nicki's taste in beats/songs has become.

I don't think anyone's issue with Azalea is the beats.

― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk I hate the "Fancy" beat, although yes the hook is worse (not her tho)

Disagree on both counts - beat could pass as dj mustard and Charli is easily the best thing about the song.

idk it's too girly for me, nohomophobic

i have mixed feelings about the "Fancy" beat, meant more the other tracks on the album (although not so much the other single with Rita Ora, that's pretty bland)

I do expect there to be a buzzaonthebeatho drop everytime I hear it although when you think about it there are differences

My chief beef with Azalea-as-artist has always been her terrible rapping, not bad beats. The fact that she has good beats being wasted only makes it worse. Black Widow being a prime example of this. Her bars on that are baffingly shit, like "how were you not asked to re-record this" levels of shit. Anyway, Anaconda video is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs&feature=youtu.be

drake huh

i really h8 this song

lol @ breaking the banana in half, lol @ leaving drake with his head in his hands

iggy definitely wastes a lot of good beats on her album but her problem is largely being boring rather than actively terrible - "fancy" works as a great pop song (aside from having an awesome beat, despite charli's chorus being awkwardly shoehorned in) because she constantly lights on catchy vocal hooks and tics, which she really fails to do elsewhere on the album. so little sticks out, and the sia-style blustery choruses don't help.

i toyed with liked 'new bitch' off iggy's alb but she is really too unpleasant

"fuck love" is the only non-"fancy"/"work" track i fuck with, maybe because it's so outright unpleasant

ya i wasnt against unplez content as such, more that she puts this nasty douchey vibe all over things

anyway 'anaconda' song + video is a human tragedy on every level

nicki shows her ass more in the song than in the video imo

idk it's too girly for me, nohomophobic

Lol at masculinity.

it's always funny when someone stumbles into actually explicitly saying "ew girly!" rather than cloaking it in objectivity

I still think "Anaconda" is really fun until it just turns into a shitty trap remix. Love the video, you boys can all go home.

^

"aside from having an awesome beat"

really dude. Having "Blurred Lines" flashbacks where everyone except me likes the beat (that one was the same BS post-peak Neptunes Pharrell has always got criticized for BTW but for some reason got a pass) and I feel like I'm trippin'. but shit is wack

it's always funny when someone stumbles into actually explicitly saying "ew girly!" rather than cloaking it in objectivity

― lex pretend, Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"objectivity" ? It is too girly for my tastes and I like certain girly shit

if that's a bad adjective I just think it's a lame song

It is a fun beat but I'm personally of the opinion that Iggy Australia's minstrel ass can go fuck herself.

first things first gday mate

hate on anything else about her but please no not the minstrel ass

That Drake bit is so awful, like a Mrs Brown's Boys bit or something

yeah totally

i would never have gone in on the 'massive attack' video for its pitifully clueless awkwardness had i known this was in store

oh well guess i'll have to settle for ogling

Could not make it through the song. Though at the ice skating rink with my kids yesterday I heard some weird chopped up remix of "Baby's Got Back" which was not this, afaict. Will be awesome if/when this Nicki things gets traction and they go to youtube, their preferred method of listening to music, though of course they like the pop stuff better so may just miss this mess entirely.

I love the song but the video... ugh. I don't know what I was hoping for but this isn't it.

im more into the song now tbh, i could see a DJ using it properly

idk it's too girly for me, nohomophobic

― nova, Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most valuable new posters, def

the girlyness of fancy is the only thing to like imo, it's got a certain old school sassiness, salt n pepa, l'trimm etc etc

whats funny is its the BEAT dude thinks is too girly lololol

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

hate this song ... so girly

that part where she gives drake a lapdance is so bad
the song and video are bad in general