Nicki Minaj: Starships

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?