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Madonna / Give Me All Your Luvin’
The shame about Madonna’s new single is that it could have been really great. I love that ‘retro’ hippy-dippy guitar sound. Britney has a few old demos and album tracks in a similar vein, and they’re among my favorites by her (even over some of her proper singles and such). M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj are entirely unnecessary, but we all know that, so it’s not even worth bringing up. I’m more perturbed by the whole cheerleader chant, which granted, is great in the context of the Superbowl, but is a bit shit otherwise. It falls into that old pop rule that almost any song that mentions the artist’s name in the lyrics is automatically awful (though some times breaking the rules is fun).
Thankfully everything else about this campaign is relatively on point. The promo is obviously airtight and I love the album title and artwork. This is a misfire but at least it seems to indicate a more laid-back, fun approach which was sorely missing from her last album.
Nicki Minaj / Stupid Hoe
Everything that’s needed to be said about this has already been said, but seriously, is it too soon to declare the worst song and video of 2012? Woeful. It will be interesting to see how she recovers from this. She’s still struggling with her identity, musically, which might actually be a really interesting topic to cover / place to come from, but she hasn’t embraced that yet, or even recognized it.
At least she’s still in her prime. There’s hope yet. Hype Williams, however, needed to have had the camera pried from his dead, derivative hands years ago the minute he started having seizures in the editing room.
- Roman In Moscow
Artist: Nicki Minaj | ♬ : 70 Plays
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Nicki Minaj / Roman In Moscow
“I told you bitches last year I’m a rap bitch nightmare”
I feel like I should like this song a lot less than I actually do, but I don’t, so there you go. Nicki’s ‘Roman’ alter takes a trip to Moscow on the first cut off her upcoming sophomore LP Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Sounds like the title to a re-release, but no, Nicki has confirmed it’ll be an entirely new album.
I’m still not sure how much I buy into the whole ‘alter ego’ thing just in general, be it ‘Sasha Fierce’ or Lady GaGa trying to impersonate a man at the VMA’s, as long as the music itself is good everything else is less than important. Just another unnecessary element that rarely if ever adds anything to the actual music.
Be that as it may, Nicki - or Roman, or whoever - shreds this. She’s not saying anything new, but the end result is just so dizzying that it’s hard not to get caught up in it. A promising start to the new album. Now we just need Nicki to remain this focused and deliver something truly up to par. She undeniably has the talent, but her solo material is about as consistent as her wig game, and I’m definitely not here for any of that rubbish rap-ballad garbaj that filled up the majority of her first album.
Take a listen to ‘Roman In Moscow’ up top, the single is now available for download over on iTunes.
Big Sean × Nicki Minaj — Dance (A$$) Remix
ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS.
Oh lord. So this is just starting to blow up everywhere. Nicki knows she’s wrong as HAYL for that “ass eater” line, though I can’t even front, this is one of her strongest verses in quite a while. Big Sean can sit all the way down. Nicki just made him look redundant on his own song! She has a habit of doing that doesn’t she? Her verse here is on some “Monster” levels of spotlight snatching.
Meanwhile this is a pretty stupid song, but stupid catchy. I’m sure opinions are divided on this one but I think the ‘Hammer Time’ beat is incorporated rather effectively. Or as effectively as you can incorporate a cheesy 90’s hit, anyway.
Watch all them A$$ets (hurr hurr) go wobbledy wobble in the just-released MV, and download the song for free over on Nicki’s official website.
2011 MTV VMA RECAP THINGY
Last night some of the ‘biggest stars’ in music turned out for the MTV Video Music Awards, and now here are some assorted and unimportant thoughts on yesterday’s ceremonies from yours truly, half-a-day late edition!
Lady GaGa
You’re not funny. You can’t act. Stop.
You also opened the show! And the world continued to rotate exactly as it did before the performance.
Britney ‘tribute’
Was little more than an overstuffed introduction to Beyoncé’s performance. We all sat there, expecting something potentially grand, only to get a kiddie circus show with a bunch of 12 year olds playing dress up. Granted, those 12 year olds were busting their asses harder than Britney at any time during the past 5 years, and I’m sure Britney was sitting there thinking “damn, remember when I used to be able to do that?”, but still, Britney deserved more than what she got.
GaGa was really trying hard (but then, when isn’t she?), and what she needed to do was get that man-mug up out of Britney’s grill while she was trying to accept her award. The almost kiss/2003 re-creation was cute for a moment, but the second ManGa started with all that creepy breathing ish two inches away from her face, Britney should have pulled a Brenda on that ass and shut the situation all the way down. But Britters is too sweet to do anything like that, so she ended up getting awkwardly steamrolled under the moving bus that was Beyoncé. Now she knows how Kelly, Michelle, and half of Houston Texas feel.
But what can you do? She looked really darn good, so there was that at least.
Beyoncé
CAN KELLY ROWLAND CATCH A GOD DAMN BREAK OR WHAT?! Were the first thoughts that ran through my mind as Bey and her belly rolled onto the VMA red carpet. Okay not really, but damn, barely a month after Kelly releases her album, and starts her X-Factor stint, and Beyoncé’s gotta get the shine back on her somehow (because that 1+1 video was NOT going to cut it). The plotting probably started some time back in May, when Bey saw Motivation’s chart position above her own. She had sabotaged Kelly before, but this time it was different, Kelly was actually beating her at her own game! So she knew it was time to pull out the ultimate trump card. I imagine Bey stayed up long nights, reading Rihanna’s illuminati handbooks, secretly cutting snippets of Solange’s hair for sacrifice, and probably even had Jay’s semen flown on private jet cross country just ensure her plan wouldn’t backfire. The result…
All jokes aside though, I couldn’t be happier for her. This is exactly what she always wanted, and it was cute to watch Jay jump up and down like a little jelly bean with joy during his wify’s performance.
She did “Love On Top”. Not exactly my favorite song off the album, and her performance, which amounted to little more than four minutes caterwauling, did little to change my mind. The ending was reeeeeal cute though, I have to say. And you know that her baby, if it’s a girl, will be watching this footage from the time it’s in diapers, with Mama Bey and her father Dark Lord Matthew Knowles teaching her how to pussy pop and weave thrash by the age of 5.
Adele
Stood there. Repeated her BRIT Awards performance. Still blew everyone out the water. Not necessarily because she blew ME away personally, but just looking at the rest of the night, I mean, who else? WHO? I’ll wait.
Katy Perry
Was there.
Rihanna
Was not there.
Madonna
Was also not there and was reportedly heard chuckling from her New York penthouse.
Nicki Minaj
Looked cute (in her own way), picked up an award, and was generally less offensive than she was during that god-awful pre-show performance at last year’s bash. She also *FIN-UH-LLY* dropped that “Fly” music video which has been in production since 2000-forever-ago. It’s quite boring actually (you can watch the full here), but Rih was looking pretty, so it wasn’t a complete loss.
Chris Brown
Was auditioning for America’s Best Dance Crew, apparently, so I guess a proper performance was out of the question. In all seriousness though, there’s no denying his dancing ability, and in a way I think it was a good idea for him to shut the hell up and just focus on that one aspect.
Jay-Z and Adele STAYED sitting down during his performance though. I was basking in that shade you guys. BASKING IN IT.
Amy Winehouse ‘tribute’
MTV please stop doing tributes. Just. STOP. MTV actually used to be able to put together a half-decent tribute, but this year’s Amy memorial made even the most rachet BET Award tribute seem thoughtful.
Bottom damn line, Bruno Mars has no business being up there. Even if he sounded good, it was about Amy, and it felt like she was an afterthought in her own tribute. And furthermore, you mean to tell me they couldn’t have gotten someone a little closer to Amy to pay her tribute? And then to do it with a cover song? There are no words.
Rick Ross
Just needs to continue to be Rick Ross every fucking day.
Tyler, The Creator
’s mom stole the whole enchilada.
Lil’ Wayne show closer
“Lil Mama”
Yeah, I don’t know either you guys.
Conclusions
Some people made themselves look like buffoons, others managed to crawl out of it with a few shreds of their dignity (and weave) left intact, and a whole bunch of people walked away with awards they had no damn business being nominated for in the first place. And so the world goes on, and by next week no one will remember any of it. But at least, for a night, we could all escape our boring lives to watch the car crash that was the 2011 MTV VMA’s.
