GIRLS FALL LIKE...
Oh my god, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday is a mess. It fails for the exact reason (spoiler alert) Kanye's "All Of The Lights" works: super-pop overload. Unfortunately, the mock to all of us critics that she threw down on Yeezy's "Monster" when she was "all up in the bank with a funny face" is exactly the modus operandi she should've stuck to when making her debut record: more crazy, less, uh...less Alicia Keys.
The record as a whole has a few high points, but mostly it's like "really, 50k for a verse with no album out? Oh, man, say goodbye to that shit."
Then...and then...and then: this brilliantly confounding iTunes bonus track, "Girls Fall Like Dominos". YUP, it's a fucking BIG PINK sample.
Nicki Minaj: Girls Fall Like Dominos
This? This bonus track is better than the entirety of Pink Friday combined. It's fierce, witty and relentless, and Nicki is stealing Drake's girls, Wayne's girls, signing breasts and throwing the fuck down like she'd never written "Dear Old Nicki". THERE IS SO MUCH BRILLIANCE HERE IT HURTS ME...and it makes what's actually grouped as Pink Friday so much more tragic.
Nicki Minaj, the big pink 
Reader Comments (2)
do you think she googled "bands AND pink" and went from there? just sayin!
I wonder if this was a marketing decision: like WHOA nicki's a girl, we can't market her without sappy love songs, etc.
I would have thought she was enough of a bad ass to stand up to that kind of record label big wig bullshit.