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
maybe there'll be a franken berry tie-in soon
― maura, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
When she said she'd let Drake and Lil' Wayne eat her ass like a cupcake, she really 'flipping' the digestive system.
― 3×5, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
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 Moviesvery weird way to shift blame there
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
she needs to apologize for releasing nothing but flops this year
although i like 'yasss bish'
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
so where did nicki get "metalocalypse" from
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Those who forget history are doomed to eat Nicki Minaj's b-hole
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
(and perhaps my use of symmetry?)
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
geometry teachers teaching isosceles triangles, please note
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
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, November 11, 2014 12:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkjust 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, November 11, 2014 12:38 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkmaybe there'll be a franken berry tie-in soon― maura, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:38 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― maura, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Usher beat her to it tho
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fjeQBVC.png
Well I guess this isn't really a subversion
Looking forward to Nicki's hot take
maybe "a. loucas" started blathering about sin city when nicki started yelling at him, both having been duped by this artist into reminding kids about atrocities
"ugh...is this song just wayne drake and nicki dry humping each other? that's it, i'm making nicki cobra commander and drake a celibate"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
And the one billionth internet rage to let's make fun of apology circlejerk continues. *Sigh* I just want the album.
― lilsoulbrother, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link