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
that whole freestyle is dope tho, one of the times disney movie nicki really worked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khnpjNnXydw
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 December 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
the "only" video is somehow more hilariously bad than the song
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 December 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
"the night is still young" is pretty go as far as dr. luke/nicki collabos go... the songwriting unfortunately isn't that great but the production is a nifty kinda john hughes soundtrack thing
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
pretty good
I can't believe anyone let OJ Da Juiceman happen
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
my favorite part of that is how he only raps 12 bars but 3 of them start with "young jewman"
― some dude, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
he also drops "10 rings on like i'm playin' b-ball"!!! was this the rough draft for his legendary xxl freshman verse???
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
This video reminded me Lil B's flow is OJ's
― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
nicki cracking up at the into to OJ's verse is amusing
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 December 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
OJ Da Juiceman is my hero.
― longneck, Saturday, 13 December 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
truffle butter is def a jam, wayne sounds better than he has in like min 4 yrs, also on 'after that' from the future tape
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 December 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
― prolego, Friday, December 12, 2014 12:26 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol @ this
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 December 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
deeply regret i couldnt have experienced that mysteriously genius anticlimax first hand, mightve drawn me into some ineffable genius of the pinkprint fugue
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 December 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
incredible messiness
― lex pretend, Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Hahahaha the instrumental for Anaconda is just 4 bars of Baby Got Back right?
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
like a vine
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 14 December 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
looped for the very first time
― johnny crunch, Friday, December 12, 2014 8:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the original kid heat record >>>
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 14 December 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, December 12, 2014 2:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
true
obviously "wamables" is decent
the further away any given nicki minaj track is from the main album in 2014 the better it is
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
The best stuff save Truffle Butter and Shanghai is on the "proper" album.* The run from Get On Your Knees to Anaconda is great and easily the best on any of her albums.
*does this idea of the standard edition being the proper album and the deluxe being regarded as optional bonuses even have any value in 2014 when major label artists push deluxe editions over the standard, the standards routinely sell less than the deluxe edition and deluxes routinely contain great tracks anyway?
― Greer, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
you'd seriously take
get on your knees/feeling myself/only/want some more/four door aventador/favorite/buy a heart/trini dem girls/anaconda
over
roman holiday/come on a cone/i am your leader/beez in the trap/hov lane/roman reloaded
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link