Nicki Minaj:
Starships
Okay, I needed to write this review a long time ago, but
I never got around to it. But here it
goes. Nicki Minaj’s Starships
represents 60% of everything that is wrong with hip-hop and 90% of what is
wrong with North American pop music.
It is loud without much musical or lyrical
structure. Instead of making a fun
song, it is more interested in being a stupid song to be played in a rave or
dance club. The song isn’t very good
and certainly not in the same style as Beez in the Trap.
Sadly, Nicki has fully embraced this annoying bad trend
of making hip-hop into really bad Euro-dance/trance mixture. Nicki has proven that she can do pure
hip-hop songs without the bad Euro stuff.
However, these strange dance/rap hybrids are more popular across the
globe.
Probably the worst part about the song has to be when it
switches tones after the “Higher than a Motherf’er”. It sounds more like a Black Eye Peas song than anything
else. This section of the song is the
real reason I hate the song. The loud
techno stuff makes for a jarring and unpleasant sound.
If I had something positive to say about this song, I’d
say some of the music video is very colorful.
~That voice: Nicki’s voice is very annoying in the
opening of the song. I’ve always hated
her strange British voice.
~Ass Implants, Nicki?:
Man, it is a sad time when black women feel the need to get ass implants
too. This music video kind of shows her
bum shake in a strange fashion. Why did
you need an ass implant, Nicki?
~Is that the Dianetics volcano in the background? Isn’t the song and music video about
starships? Are we seeing a connection
to Scientology? Probably not…
~Portions of this video, when the guys are jumping
through the colorful water, feel like an ad for Ocean Spray or some other juice
company.
~What is up with the clear cube in the background? Is it one of those things from 2001? Is it the Transformer Cube?
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