Nicki Minaj - The Pink Print (2014)

...this year, anyway

when i listen to this i usually listen to this stretch: get on your knees, feeling myself, only, want some more, four door, buy a heart, trini, anaconda. and them maybe skip to truffle butter. all good songs imo

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/9012179/taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-twitter

is there a particular reason I should click that

there is no feud here, just cluelessness from swift

Yes, missing Nicki's point about race in the MTV Video nominations; and then when pushing female solidarity (ignoring her own jabs sometimes aimed at other females)

i mean some of Nicki's tweets were very clearly referencing Taylor ("When the 'other' girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination") so i dunno why it was so wrong for her to react, even if she didn't have the best possible reaction.

Taylor didn't have the sense to recognize that yes, even she might benefit from qualities other than her skills

http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/22/nicki-minaj-vma-race-problem

Of the 31 overall wins for VOTY, 8 have been wins by black performers

The Best Pop Video award has never been won by a black artist in the category’s 15 years of existence. (It is worth noting that dancehall artist Bounty Killer, was a featured artist on a winning No Doubt song in 2002.)

Of the 31 overall wins for VOTY, 8 have been wins by black performers

is this supposed to be a shocking, damning statistic?

The Best Pop Video award has never been won by a black artist in the category’s 15 years of existence.

This is super fucked up.

tbf half of those years there was an R&B award where most black singers would've been nominated instead (and a hip hop award all of those years), and in the other half of those years there were rarely any black singers big enough to be nominated besides Beyonce and Rihanna

And two piles of steaming N'Sync crap won over two of Destiny's Child's best songs.

i think nicki was referring to white girls in general rather than taylor specifically?

in the other half of those years there were rarely any black singers big enough to be nominated besides Beyonce and Rihanna

― teenage good-ass kinja turtles (some dude), Thursday, July 23, 2015 5:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah none of the thinkpieces saw fit to mention the industry-aided collapse of r&b as a pop force, which seems...crucial

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/22/taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-faux-feminist-tone-deaf

^^this was my favourite piece though especially as the author seems to snap halfway in and just goes "THE VMAS ARE TRASH AND SO IS TAYLOR'S VIDEO AND NICKI'S VIDEO AND ALL THE NOMINATED VIDEOS"

can anyone actually, offhand, remember any of the VMA winners in the past?

I think Justice vs. Simian won back in 2006 or 2007

^^mtv europe awards rather than vmas, which i only remember because of Kanye crashing the stage

Minaj calmly posted a few tweets and did not, as some media outlets would lead you to believe, let off an Angry Black Woman stereotype “rant”.

rant really is the worst word. ime some women reflexively self-apply it anytime something untrivial takes them more than ten consecutive seconds to say, which is :(

taylor's video is terrible and if i had known this was going to be the symbolic dichotomy i would never have been so critical of anaconda upthread.

also cracked up @ nicki's masses of faux-apologetic smileys

I can't believe Nicki Minaj is a Gruanaid reader now, I mean, wow.

Surely there are better outlets to read if you were Nicki Minaj, surely celebrities would have access to a secret website of news and hot takes.

xp haha yeah, a+ smileys

on another note, saw Nicki live a few weeks ago, show was so-so in places but her technique was flawless, I was impressed

she's tightened up her live show so much since the last tour

i listen to this album a lot btw, appreciate that the pop/rap schism is not as stark as reloaded. agree with what i recall to be the consensus that it starts extremely ploddingly even if she's being Intimate and shit, like the first two songs barely seem to qualify as rap, but i do actually rly love "the crying game": love the crawling lil guitar figure, love her inflection on "asian rug". also lol i bought this at target and it's the one where anaconda is mistakenly an "instrumental", i.e. a beat with occasional blurts of sir mix a lot. did not think nicki could top the time i bought the re-up and the readable side of the roman reloaded cd was inexplicably splattered with purple paint i had to scrape off at the not-too-dear expense of "whip it".

https://vine.co/v/e6T0UHqbOjl

^^this was my favourite piece though especially as the author seems to snap halfway in and just goes "THE VMAS ARE TRASH AND SO IS TAYLOR'S VIDEO AND NICKI'S VIDEO AND ALL THE NOMINATED VIDEOS"

I thought I was being called out. I missed the point, I misunderstood, then misspoke. I'm sorry, Nicki. @NICKIMINAJ

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 23, 2015

fuck you mean
fuck your lil memes

http://www.youtube.com/v/qqJeL66Zo8o&fs=1&hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TCcDE4fi4Y

surprised that no one is talking abt the new singles. chun li goes so hard in the 80s NYC sound & it's no. 10 in the country this week

Luv her x1000, but not particularly feeling either new single...

i kinda like "barbie tingz" even tho she has done the same kinda thing better in the past. "stupid hoe" ofc was amazing.

(btw i wouldn't read too much into its current chart position so early in the game. both singles are likely to nosedive down the charts next week now that the initial flurry of activity is cooling down, and it's worth remembering that "no frauds", which in retrospect basically bombed, did manage to frontload its way to #14.)

Luv her x1000, but not particularly feeling either new single...

^This. "Chun Li" is good I guess, but not particularly memorable while "Barbie Tingz" is just meh.

mostly sad that she felt she had to play into the beef-with-Cardi narrative, even though Cardi herself seems uninterested in the whole thing. kind of obviously rushed these singles out to coincide with Invasion of Privacy's release.

like barbie tingz too

Damn that snl performance was karaoke level terrible

"Truffle Butter" sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMYZI4lK9co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNeeh2Gxyvg

Really mellow/understated track. I like the beat. Bet it sounds good played really loud

(Nicki does not sound particularly engaged in this track, I'm sorry to say...)

her saturday night live performance was really weird and low energy too

I was considering buying a ticket for her tour w/Future -- I haven't been to a rap show since like 1991, but I really want to see the "queen" at least once -- but not so sure now this is the tour to see.

new alb out now

love "barbie dreams"

https://www.complex.com/music/2018/08/nicki-minaj-queen-first-week-projections

sales are rly bad

Reviews are pretty poor. Anyone here listened all the way thru?

It's better and more cohesive than Pinkprint. It's just difficult to get excited about Nicki doing the same thing she's been competently doing since then over a full album.

pinkprint had more awesome songs than this

not sure what she has left to say really... feels like she's mostly just making the same songs over and over

That’s kind of been my impression from the advance singles and other recent stuff...

lmao the "miss aretha i just passed her" lyric is unfortunate timing

There was a crazy crowd of screamers on 42nd near 6th on Wednesday who were apparently there to see her.

what is happening to nicki minaj right now is very sad. it may warrant a separate thread.

^ what’s going on Dyl