"My Chick Bad" / "Go Hard" / "Itty Bitty Piggy". 27. by Adam Bychawski April 17th, 2012 ... That is exactly what the first few tracks on Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded are. [5], At the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, Minaj announced the reissue of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, subtitled The Re-Up, commenting "I'm putting lots of new songs on there and I'm actually going to drop my new single like next week. "Where Them Girls At" (Video Interlude) Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (written on iTunes as Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded due to naming restrictions) is the sophomore studio album by Nicki Minaj. But, again, conservatism is not what you would come to Roman Reloaded. She said when the Barbz find out "why" she's starting the fall tour a bit later, they will be VERY happy. It’s an odd mix of sparse, radar blips (‘Beez In The Trap’), gunshots and snares (‘Roman Reloaded’), Euro pop (‘Starships’) and trashy electro (‘Pound The Alarm’). The album was released on April 2, 2012. 24. The Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour was the second concert tour and first arena tour by Nicki Minaj. [17] Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly panned the album and placed it at number two on his list of The Worst Albums Of The Year, writing that the album was "soul-less, lazy, and totally unnecessary. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on eight reviews. [23], "Freedom" was released as the second single digitally through iTunes on November 2, 2012. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is the second studio album by Trinidadian-American recording artist Nicki Minaj. 10. Price Match Guarantee. The new material incorporates hip hop and R&B styles. Not even she is taking the distinctions all that seriously: “Nicki, Pop! Today's playlist features the premiere of Stellie's "Colours", some top-class funk from the Brooks, Berne's eco-conscious electropop, clever indie-pop from Maude Latour, Jaguar Jonze rocking the mic, and Meresha's "alien pop". Release Date: 06/19/2012 . "Stupid Hoe", infamous for its number of dislikes on YouTube and BET's banning of the video, is dumped at the end of the tracklisting for reasons unknown. But even so, it seems like we’re stuck in a stalemate when it comes to Minaj, tirelessly rehearsing arguments about these schisms. Roman Reloaded is a headscratcher of infinite proportions. 2. Release date pushbacks certainly didn't help either. [25], The third single "High School" features Lil Wayne and was released on April 16, 2013. Best Buy only took limited [stock] because they wanted to play it safe. It's only seven minutes into this CD before Nicki Minaj operatically sings "put my dick in your face", a phrase she'll repeat many more times throughout the Hit-Boy helmed, very poorly titled "Come on a Cone". Eclectic instrumental trio numün combine a wealth of influences to create a vibe that's both spacey and earthy on voyage au soleil. "Fire Burns" 22. 7. It takes the opening track of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, ‘Roman Holiday’, and dramatizes it into a ridiculous, badly acted, rap-opera re-enactment of that Exorcist scene. It kinda sets you up to fail. British musician Ed Harcourt's instrumental music is full of turbulent swells and swirls that somehow maintain a dignified beauty on Monochrome to Colour. the Coens hammer home a fatalistic criticism about the ways that commerce, violence, and cosmetic Christianity prevail in American society . "Come on a Cone" With the array of producers on Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, the backing instrumentals have a multiple personal disorder of their own. You're here for an album where Nicki Minaj claims "only thing pop is my endorsements" 15 minutes before an entire section of boring, trite attempts at playing Katy Perry or Rihanna (particularly "Marilyn Monroe", which comes complete with Rihanna's islander vocal affectations). [4] The album's lead single "Starships" became Minaj's most successful and certified single to date, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time and making US Billboard history after debuting in the top ten and then spending a total of 21 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. 18. Its three singles "The Boys", "Freedom", and "High School" peaked at numbers 41, 31, and 20 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart respectively, and the latter peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. 11. "Super Bass", 14. A female version of outsized Busta Rhymsian magnificence had never been presented to us before, nor had anyone so charismatically gifted been so willing to distort Lauryn Hill into a vision of Madonna. 21. It was released on November 19, 2012, by Young Money, Cash Money, and Republic Records. To quote her Young Money compatriot Drake, Nicki, "I'm just sayin' you could do better. Even then, if the songs were any good, or the performance admirable on any level other than novelty, Roman Reloaded would stand a chance. Be the first to write a review. [3] It was met with a generally mixed response from music critics, receiving an average score of 60, based on 30 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "generally mixed or average reviews". Genre. If it's to remind us that Minaj is a rapper after 30 minutes of frilly, unessential pop music that only succeeds at being far less annoying than Minaj doing what she's marketed for, then I suppose it succeeds. Thanks to the past few months it's not a complete surprise that this isn't the only surreal, incomprehensible moment on Roman Reloaded, but it's especially jarring following "Roman Holiday", a song with a ridiculous, Millionaires-esque chorus and completely unhinged rendition of "Come All Ye Faithful" wedged awkwardly into the middle. Artist: Nicki Minaj . 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Even if the alter egos of the Zolanski family (the Limey mother, younger sister and prodigal son Roman) are becoming less and less characters and more an excuse for weird vocal inflections and an occasional change of pitch, they are still a joy to hear. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Reloaded UK Tour Teaser. Those songs that don’t succeed don’t really have Nicki Minaj in mind. It was released on April 2, 2012, by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Republic. Enjoy this excerpt of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire, wherein Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the 20th century. Radiohead's Kid A turns 20 today. Almost inevitably, there were a few first-night glitches to contend with. It really depends on the extra content and timing of the release ... Nicki's reissue was seemingly timed to profit from holiday shopping", also adding that the sales of The Re-Up were actually better than similar reissues by Minaj's contemporaries. Or more contemporaneously, the audio equivalent of Minaj and Katy Perry's annual attempts to outweird Lady Gaga on the red carpet of the Grammys: pointless and futile. 26. Label: Island Release Date: 02/04/2012. SKU: 20291625 . She references her much-publicized on-set tension with fellow American Idol judge Mariah Carey in the line "But I'm quick to check a bitch if she’s outta line" and references the series' personnel in the line "Shout out Mike Darnell and Nigel [Lythgoe] / Why these bums so mad that the queen on Idol". Sold Out. Abortion is under threat again, and there's a sex offender in the Oval Office. In April 2012, Minaj released her second studio album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. [9], Minaj commented on On Air with Ryan Seacrest that "I feel like the music is such a better representation of me where I am now as an artist in my career. [34] An associate from Billboard commented on the commercial performance of The Re-Up stating that "expanded reissues aren't always guaranteed big sellers. The new material incorporates hip hop and R&B styles. It incorporates both hip hop and electropop influences,[18] and has been described as a "girls' night anthem". Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded David Amidon. It is not enough to just like Nicki Minaj, you have to pick sides as well. Featured New Releases ... Release Date April 2, 2012. Save $2.40. Freed from all stage trickery, her dancers dispatched to the wings, the rapper returned to her hardcore hip hop roots, spitting out her rhymes with dazzling brilliance, and a fiery conviction that hadn't quite been there before. The band's thoughts on losing one's voice in an increasingly individualistic society suddenly takes on a much greater potency. [22] Its music video premiered through Vevo on October 18, 2012. Minaj has always been about dressing-up, much like the Barbie doll that she has adopted as her icon, and here she dons almost every musical style of contemporary pop that there is. You are gonna go crazy! [30] The Los Angeles Times' Gerrick D. Kennedy noted the variety of genres incorporated in the reissue, stating "Sure, she flirts with dance pop and R&B balladry, but you can forgive her for wanting to satisfy different tastes. For Don DeLillo, 'The Silence' Is Deafening, 'We're Not Here to Entertain' Is Not Here to Break the Cycle of Punk's Failures, Uncensored 'Native Son' (1951) Is True to Richard Wright's Work, Exploitation Shenanigans 'Test Tube Babies' and 'Guilty Parents' Contend with the Aftermath, 'Lost Girls and Love Hotels' and Finding Comfort in Sadness, Audrey Hepburn + Rome = Grace, Class, and Beauty, Sotto Voce's 'Your Husband, the Governor' Is Beautifully Twisted DIY Indie Folk-rock, Numün's 'voyage au soleil' Is a Trippy, Ambient Ride and Ambitious Debut, What 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Pop-Rap Pop Contemporary R&B. "[37] Walmart responded that they do not issue albums with the Parental Advisory label, while Target sold the record on their website anyway. Looking to transition from her debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), Minaj wanted to make a follow-up record about "just having fun". For an international chart-topping album to open with possessed carol singing (“Oh come oh ye faithful / joyful and triumphant / I am Roman Zolan-sk-i”) is quite something.