Rogueish
Nicki Minaj - Roman Holiday
04/02/12
Can’t help thinking it was a bit of a mistake for Nicki Minaj to make this the first track on Roman Reloaded. I mean, there are plenty of other good tracks on the album (“Beez in the Trap,” the “dick in your face” bit in “Come on a Cone,” the beat on “Right By My Side”; I could have done without the Chris Brown guest verse), but nothing that can live up to the genius of “Roman Holiday.”
12/10/10
Not sure if this backless velour tracksuit thing Nicki Minaj is wearing is fashionable or not.
11/08/10
Except - what did he just say?
“A-a-a-all you lil faggots can suck it
No homo, but I’mma stick it to ’em like refrigerator magnets”
I mind these two lines a lot less than I mind Eminem’s spectacularly misogynistic first verse. It’s problematic when a straight man uses the word “faggot,” but this seems to be a pretty funny swipe at the incoherence of hip-hop homophobia: “hey, gay men suck my dick, and I mean that in a totally heterosexual way; and to prove how heterosexual I am, I’m now going to have sex with you gay men.”
Janelle Monáe walks the Tightrope between conceptual art weirdness and robo-pop stardom | Music | The Guardian→
07/10/10
Slightly odd that Hattie Collins chooses Lady Gaga and Rihanna to contrast Monáe with. Rihanna is probably the most interesting person in mainstream R&B right now, and Gaga is, like Monáe, straddling the line between popularity and artistic extravagance, and also like Monáe (and like Nicki Minaj, too), a lot queerer than most female pop stars.
