Ah Nicki Minaj, she never could have lived up to the massive amount of hype that was pushed upon Pink Friday. Alas, after her amazingly popular and fabulous mix tape ‘beam me up scotty’ and the greatness of tracks such as, “itty bitty piggy’ and ‘I get crazy.’ High hopes were put on Nicki Minaj and sadly she hasn’t delivered greatly.
The album is supposed to showcase Minaj’s brilliantly fresh rapping abilities and unique delivery of well thought out lyrics, yet the album consists of a lot of singing and the songs on the album which are heavily rap based are centered around the same subject matter. The main theme is her constantly proving to people that she is the baddest chick in the game. It gets old quickly and many of the songs seem to mesh into one.
Never the less there are some brilliant tracks on this album. The second track Roman’s Revenge is Nicki Minaj at her best as she growls, “Rah Rah like a dungeon dragon,’ and the back and forth battling with Eminem is pure greatness, which ends with Nicki screaming in her mock cockney accent. She also doesn’t hold back on tracks ‘Did it on em,” as she explains how she defecates on her components, but she doesn’t say it that nicely. ‘Fly’ is also another great song as Nicki Minaj’s and Rihanna’s voices intertwine perfectly and any song Rihanna features on there is guaranteed commercial success. This will definitely be a chart topper.
You can definitely see where her record label have influenced this album for chart topping tunes rather then showcasing Minaj’s greatest talents. This is evident with tracks like the especially horrific “Check it out,’ sampled with the one hit wonder ‘Video killed the radio star,” Will-I-ams annoying tendency to auto tune every syllable has gone to another level as both stars sound like dieing Furbie’s. “Last Chance,” featuring Natasha Bedingfield. No idea how this collaboration came about and it just doesn’t work.
Nicki Minaj will possibly look back on Pink Friday and see that there is great room for improvement. Thankfully the good tracks on this album show that Nicki Minaj is fresh in a genre that has long needed a wake up and she could and probably will be unstoppable.
love her!
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