"Lookin ass" got a decent amount of play in Philly
― 龜, Monday, 27 October 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
like, yeah, it's clear that women lately are generally struggling for mainstream urban play, and can rarely get a hit unless the songs have shamelessly zeitgeist-y production or features from men (or, more likely, both, sometimes even multiple men as in teyana taylor's current case). singles by women that deviate from that template are doomed to flop and have indeed been flopping left and right all year (hello jazmine sullivan [already migrating to urban ac, where solo women can actually get played], elle varner, tiara thomas, k michelle's new one most likely). but i thought bey and nicki were basically exceptions to that general pattern. maybe nicki isn't?
― dyl, Monday, 27 October 2014 21:15 Bookmark
cant believe how naive i was to think that nicki just put out a series of wack songs ty dyl
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 October 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
she's going to come under more fire for working with dr. luke than chris brown
― prolego, Monday, 27 October 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
smh nicki has also put out wack tracks in the past that still got tons of radio play. also the paragraph you are quoting is not an attempt to explain why nicki's recent songs didn't do well w/ a ridiculous conspiracy against women, just that i was surprised that she is not immune to the hurdles faced by other women in her genre as i previously thought she was.
especially glaring given the record-breaking run of female artists on the Hot 100 lately.
i find this interesting too and billboard has made quite a big deal of it. my thoughts on it rn are a bit hand-wavy and shouldn't be taken too seriously, but i wonder if the relative scarcity of crossover into pop radio from other formats lately has allowed women comfortably within the pop format to thrive toward the top of the charts? pop and adult contemporary formats are typically the only ones where women can be found at equal or greater numbers relative to men, while other formats tend to be heavily male-dominated, so i think the natural consequence of a more insular pop format (less crossover from other formats) would be that pop women have a better shot on the charts. the other side to that situation is that the non-pop men who could previously count on having crossover hits (see lil wayne, who just announced the delay of his album one day before it was supposed to come out lol) have to rely even more on their home format for exposure, possibly to the detriment of women at those non-pop formats who now have less space for themselves on playlists. (necessary disclaimer, i don't know objectively whether crossover is rarer these days -- tho my sense is that it is -- so this is all hypothesis.)
― dyl, Monday, 27 October 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
omg now her album got pushed back too ;_;
― dyl, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
http://hiphop-n-more.com/2014/10/nicki-minaj-only-feat-drake-lil-wayne-chris-brown/
― Greer, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
sucks
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 28 October 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
lol the Drake verse is peak simp
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
trash
i still have faith the album will be great but this song instils zero confidence as the lead-in single
― prolego, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
man in 2014 we're still calling out the contradictions between "hard" and "soft" drake oh wow
but anyway this song is not good
― blood on the peaves (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
hahaha "blow me...Lance Stephenson" is an incredibly dumb and instantly dated grocery bag line
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
i do agree that we should be done with the hashtag-punchline style by now but i'm also never not in favor of lance-a-make-em-dance references
speaking of which did anyone hear lance's freestyle over "hot n---a"? not half bad imo
― blood on the peaves (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1fHG_YCQAI795E.png
― Greer, Monday, 3 November 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
r.i.p. album cover design
― maura, Monday, 3 November 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
bad esp by donda's standards
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 November 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
what was the pitch for this? "the cover is gonna be a clump of make up sitting in a make up smear"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 November 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
i mean
it's better than her other album covers so far lol
― dyl, Monday, 3 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
her album cover game is britney levels of tragic
― prolego, Monday, 3 November 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
hdu insult queen britney like that, nicki
― you little affront to god (reddening), Monday, 3 November 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
...is merely heir pretender to the tragic cover throne
lol art school
― example (crüt), Monday, 3 November 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
i like this cover but then i also really like the britney s/t cover
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
you guys don't get it it's her fingerprint
― nose, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
i like all of nicki's album covers! the first two are very ugly to look at but that's sort of the point. distorto barbie doll for pink friday, everything thrown manically at the wall and making a mess for roman reloaded. for a zero-effort itunes-age cover, this one's better than usual - feels quite unusual for a major female artist not to have her face on the cover (er, albeit this is following in yoncé's footsteps). plus i assume the shape of the make-up, esp if a small icon viewed briefly, is intentional
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
britney's run of terrible covers is probably untouchable
― lex pretend, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
distorto barbie doll for pink friday, everything thrown manically at the wall and making a mess for roman reloaded.
this theory is doing a lot of work for someone who might just have really poor taste in album covers
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 November 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
the distorted barbie doll figure was really cool but the actual album cover itself was bad because... she has bad taste in design and fonts? same w/ roman
who needs album covers – we have mp3s
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 November 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
nothing uglier in the world than a phone playing an mp3 without the cover art
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 November 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
well nicki's aesthetic has been pretty consistent from the punchlines to the outfits to the album covers...they're all self consciously garish, and work on some occasions better than others, but singling out one of those elements for being especially glaring seems a little odd.
― some dude, Monday, 3 November 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
otm
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Monday, 3 November 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
i think simultaneously signifying artifice+femalesex+identity in a single glyph and having that much whitespace leftover is p decent design, but maybe she should have gone with herself as a kid
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah i like the fingerprint thing personally, don't understand what beef people have with it really
― some dude, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
i haven't seen people go nuts to anaconda, i feel like it's more a filler track in the build up to a song where the beat actually drops, good for building tension but not a release of its own
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:13 PM Bookmark
pro tip: "Push It"
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Friday, 7 November 2014 11:15 (nine years ago) link
Nicki Minaj answers the question, by the way, which one of them is Pink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU769XX_dIQ
Next album is called Nicki Minaj's Pink Floyd: The Wall. Calling it now.
Pink Floyd did it for aaaart, man. Interpol just did it for fashion. Nicki Minaj does it to flip Empire and White Supremacy, and out come the pearlclutchers on twitter already?
― frauhaus (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 9 November 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
It's kind of amazing to see the clusterfuck building on Tumblr over something that is, essentially, a send-up of The Wall (cult of personality pop stardom as fascism, surveillance culture) but with butts on parade instead of walking hammers.
― Nicki Minaj - The Pink Floyd (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 9 November 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
"lyric videos" are one of the worst things that ever happened to music, i can't watch one anymore
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
This is basically a KMFDM video
― 龜, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
she apologized anyway
https://33.media.tumblr.com/b8c2af1f7b2568bae78a197b510b8f6e/tumblr_nevl7apUQ81qm7x4so1_1280.jpg
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
The buried lede is "one of my best friends hired an artist with no knowledge of the 20th century"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
anyone actually know anything about this metalocalypse thing she cites
love nicki but that's the kind of non-apology we usually disdain
dunno why she didn't just go the (plausible) "trying to subvert white supremacy in the name of art" route though that would've possibly gone down better to a song with less basic lyrics
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
I was pretty offended by Drake and Wayne explaining why they hadn't yet fucked Nicki; I guess I'm a prude
― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
plus Chris Brown overseeing it allyuck
― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
metalocalypse is some late night cartoon network shit from a little less than a decade ago about a metal band that ruled the world or something, i'm sure they exploited some fascist iconography on it
kind of hilarious to see an artist describing the pernicious influences that made them think it was cool to make grey footage of stormtroopers wearing armbands
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
"i think this should be in black & white...y'know like it was filmed in sin city"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
"i'm gonna give drake one of those funny hats old powerful people wear"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
she said she takes full responsibility which already raises her several miles above the bar
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Metalocalpyse is a spoof of extreme/death metal/etc with a fictional band called Dethklok but they got popular enough to actually tour big clubs, they have a famous metal session guy as drummer
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 11:10 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha is there literally anything Nicki does that isn't subverting something? like does she wake up in the morning and subvert her bowl of cereal?
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
just got an image of an album cover where she's sitting down with a bowl of froot loops on her head
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link