alright, finished now, this is the worst album of the year, peace
― r|t|c, Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
maybe i shouldn't be listening to this hungover
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
choruses are all hot garbage so far, even the jessie ware one, which sounds pleasant but is listless and unstructured
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
idk if i can survive through "only"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
odd side effect of this album has been to make me go back to la bella mafia (which is a lot better)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
hoping for at least 1 or 2 instances of the coked-out "stupid ho"/"come on a cone" insanity that hopefully surpasses the comparatively tame "anaconda"
― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
finally, "four door aventador" is not horrible and is in fact great
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
not only are the choruses garbage but all the guest vocalists and rappers make nicki sound like such a weirdly muted presence on her own record. which is ridiculous when she's built her reputation from owning songs with only a guest verse
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I've found there are two schools of Nicki Minaj fans: ones that worship her unconditionally and ones that demand she rap like Eminem on speed at all times
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Just FYI "Truffle Butter" used to be The K.I.D Heat and Mally Mall feat. Drake and Tyga "Whatcha Say" ... i believe a DJ Carisma joint ...was out back in september
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Now RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuO0K4XaMO0
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
although apparently tyga wasn't supposed to be on it https://twitter.com/thekidheat/status/539518867073032192
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
this album sounded like it had a couple ok songs on it, once again though popular rap in 2014 is trash
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
so far the bonus tracks are all good-to-great? wtf happened with this record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
"four door aventador" paired w/ "yonce" would break someone's lower back like seriously
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
bonus tracks being better than the standard edition tracks is sort of the story of 2014 pop albums
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
"shanghai" is better sinogrime than anything on that fatima al qadiri record
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah but usually there's at least idk the presence of life on the standard edition
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
I'm only on my second listen, but I think this is being underrated, at least in this thread. A few duds aside, this album is roughly on par with the other two
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
Wow this is the most uniformly remorseless ILM dismembering of any anticipated album since... I dunno the Aeroplane one?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
oh man, its not as bad as that
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
"four door aventador" is sick― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkit's the most lil kim song nicki has ever done― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 Bookmark
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's the most lil kim song nicki has ever done
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 Bookmark
nah this one gets nul points too in the grand scheme of things imo, nicki's whole career is about her waxing and waning on this axis but never previously had she gone dead-end leaden pastiche like this... like it's not a horrible track but as an index of cluelessness it ultimately sticks out more than any of the dr luke type cuts she's ever done
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
haha turns out it's produced by some pop brit dude from pinner
should have called himself d-dot cotton
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
i don't wanna be seeing any pleb thread bumps saying "hey, guys, guys, if u rearrange durdurdur this isnt so bad" for the next 6 months, let's just let this one burn cold forever
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
"if you rearrange durdurdur the piano garbage still ends the record proper"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah discussion about bloated 22-track albums that easily could have been 12 is pretty uninteresting and durdur.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
i'm gaping in astonishment at twitter falling at the feet of nicki's sad feelings. what hath drake wrought
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
idk if it's a drake thing so much as stans generally fetishising personal~ confessional~ albums from their favs
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
twitter has rules & regulations more strict than ilxes
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
Meanwhile elsewhere I see dudes who fetishized her hard ass no fucks given bonkers rapper side expressing disinterest when she goes somber, introspective and confessional. Funny that.
― Greer, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
prob cuz it's impossible to detect a personality beyond all the gauzy clouds of feels
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
it is a drake thing to an extent because he has set the (fetishized) rubric for what confessional passes for nowadays
nicki as a supposed student of the ny rap game ought to know more than most about how hard and emotional can go together in ways better than this
kinda funny that part of her persona has actually been that of a rare strictly business person not even particularly in thrall to the drake mystique, which they both then play on for slashfic romcom vibes
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
― Greer, Thursday, December 11, 2014 3:52 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as it turns out, EVERYONE is basic
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
you guys, I want to listen to this but I haven't figured out the proper taste calculus yet
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
this is otm. Even her supposedly confessional songs feel oddly impersonal, like she's just feigning vague emotions instead of actually revealing something about herself.
I know most of this board isn't a fan of Drake's feel-y material either, but at least that guy really opens up from time to time, getting into the specifics of why he's a shitty person (he's unfaithful; he's entitled; he trades money for affection; he burns bridges; he's not even talking to Nicki). Obviously he's still in control of his image when he confides all of these things, but it feels personal. When Nicki does it she feels a million miles away.
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:38 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― katherine, Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
xp good post Evan
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nothing supposed about it, she was a straight up NY street/punchline rapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w56UQK7QpBw
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
this is a transitional one, she's moving a little closer to what she would become
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMszqpAf9o
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
then this is even closer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZVWNlZr9k
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olJcsyYgJmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_V1LRIsEDQ
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 December 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agro8r4nyGQ
― some dude, Friday, 12 December 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXtsGAkyeIo
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
hate that duct tape like so much
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
not enough nazi imagery timo
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 12 December 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
video was on to something with the shot of nicki's bound and bleeding male captives and then the song started and then the rest of the video happened STORY OF HER CAREER
― lex pretend, Friday, 12 December 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
i'm starting to not hate this song, tbh, although i definitely understand why most people on this thread do
nicki abusing a dude who looks vaguely like khal drogo from game of thrones is never not entertaining
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Friday, 12 December 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Chris Brown looks like a Sith Lord.
― Greer, Friday, 12 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
so ppl are picking up the bonus edition version of this album in europe only to find that "anaconda" has been swapped out for... its instrumental.
just about sums up this whole album campaign
― prolego, Friday, 12 December 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
the cheese freestyle meme predicted vine
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 December 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link