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“Pink: Roman Reloaded” Just Another Commercial Product

Maybe if we weren’t too busy being blinded by the loud, obnoxious (and sometimes revealing) stunts put on by the explosive, pop sensation Nicki Minaj, perhaps we could open our eyes–and our ears–to the atrocity of her so-called “musical talent.”


These days on the radio, popular stations play song, upon song, upon song that are oozing with references very explicit in nature. This would include mentions to drug use, alcohol, partying, and lastly, references that are rather scandalously sexual in content. Even if this is done so through cleverly worded metaphors–the songs are indeed getting the point across quite clearly. Though this does not apply to all music out there (bless what can be salvaged of quality music), it’s certainly applicable in the case of Minaj’s.


Minaj’s newest album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is packed full of songs with meaningless lyrics and grammatical errors galore. You might as well forget about the album after the 11th track entitled “Pound The Alarm” before it hurts your brain too much.


While I will give props to Minaj for creating catchy beats that’ll (unfortunately) stay stuck in your head all day, “Pound The Alarm” lyrics prove to be no more than unintelligible babble. A line from the song reads,“Ok bottle, sip, bottle, guzzle, I’m a bad b**** no muzzle, hey?” What? If there’s any deeper meaning behind this song, I’m not picking up on it. It sounds to me that she may have been hitting that bottle a few times as the lyrics came to mind. Either way, I’m not so sure this song deserves time on the radio.


Sorry Minaj, we’ve got enough of the big hair and crazy dresses from Gaga. Think of something original to do (say, give us some substance and drop the auto tune) then maybe we’ll change our mind. In the meantime, maybe a lesson in grammar would do nicely.