Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

trash

i still have faith the album will be great but this song instils zero confidence as the lead-in single

man in 2014 we're still calling out the contradictions between "hard" and "soft" drake oh wow

but anyway this song is not good

hahaha "blow me...Lance Stephenson" is an incredibly dumb and instantly dated grocery bag line

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1fHG_YCQAI795E.png

r.i.p. album cover design

bad esp by donda's standards

what was the pitch for this? "the cover is gonna be a clump of make up sitting in a make up smear"

i mean

it's better than her other album covers so far lol

her album cover game is britney levels of tragic

hdu insult queen britney like that, nicki

...is merely heir pretender to the tragic cover throne

lol art school

i like this cover but then i also really like the britney s/t cover

you guys don't get it it's her fingerprint

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

britney's run of terrible covers is probably untouchable

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

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

nothing uglier in the world than a phone playing an mp3 without the cover art

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.

otm

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

yeah i like the fingerprint thing personally, don't understand what beef people have with it really

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"

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?

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.

"lyric videos" are one of the worst things that ever happened to music, i can't watch one anymore

This is basically a KMFDM video

she apologized anyway

https://33.media.tumblr.com/b8c2af1f7b2568bae78a197b510b8f6e/tumblr_nevl7apUQ81qm7x4so1_1280.jpg

The buried lede is "one of my best friends hired an artist with no knowledge of the 20th century"

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

I was pretty offended by Drake and Wayne explaining why they hadn't yet fucked Nicki; I guess I'm a prude

plus Chris Brown overseeing it all
yuck

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

"i think this should be in black & white...y'know like it was filmed in sin city"

"i'm gonna give drake one of those funny hats old powerful people wear"

love nicki but that's the kind of non-apology we usually disdain

she said she takes full responsibility which already raises her several miles above the bar

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

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, 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?

just got an image of an album cover where she's sitting down with a bowl of froot loops on her head

maybe there'll be a franken berry tie-in soon

When she said she'd let Drake and Lil' Wayne eat her ass like a cupcake, she really 'flipping' the digestive system.

metalocalypse was pretty great and absolutely had all kinds of weird illuminati vs fascism subplots; it's worth noting it's by the same guy who did Home Movies
very weird way to shift blame there

she needs to apologize for releasing nothing but flops this year

although i like 'yasss bish'

lol the artist has spoken, and clearly wants us to know his knowledge of art and culture extends beyond the last ten years

Before I start, be clear that these are my personal views and not the views of Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, or Young Money.
First, I’m not apologizing for my work, nor will I dodge the immediate question. The flags, armbands, and gas mask (and perhaps my use of symmetry?) are all representative of Nazism.

But a majority of the recognizable models/symbols are American: MQ9 Reaper Drone, F22 Raptor, Sidewinder missile, security cameras, M60, SWAT uniform, General’s uniform, the Supreme court, and the Lincoln Memorial. What’s also American is the 1st Amendment, which I’ve unexpectedly succeeded in showing how we willfully squeeze ourselves out of that right every day.

Despite the fact heavy religious and economic themes were glossed over, there’s also Russian T-90 tanks, Belgian FN FAL, German mp5 (not manufactured until 1966), an Italian Ferrari, and a Vatican Pope.

As far as an explanation, I think its actually important to remind younger generations of atrocities that occurred in the past as a way to prevent them from happening in the future. And the most effective way of connecting with people today is through social media and pop culture. So if my work is misinterpreted because it’s not a sappy tearjerker, sorry I’m not sorry. What else is trending?

lol "why did i dress up pop stars in the iconography of a genocidal regime? to prevent such atrocities from happening again." this fucking guy

so where did nicki get "metalocalypse" from

Those who forget history are doomed to eat Nicki Minaj's b-hole

What’s also American is the 1st Amendment, which I’ve unexpectedly succeeded in showing how we willfully squeeze ourselves out of that right every day.

What’s also American is the 1st Amendment, which I’ve unexpectedly succeeded in showing how we willfully squeeze ourselves out of that right every day.

What’s also American is the 1st Amendment, which I’ve unexpectedly succeeded in showing how we willfully squeeze ourselves out of that right every day.