base megathread Pink Friday 2 | Review Thread | MC: 70 | AOTY: 67 | Stabilizing at 70s...

[Maxxxine]

What a disaster

 

[punisher]

how did she actually sit there and believe she made the best album of all time 

[suburbannature]

3 hours ago, justin. said:

Yikes! And this hasn’t even been added to MC yet 

Oh no  

[Mr. Mendes]

3 hours ago, Stankonia said:

2.5/5 isn't as bad as y'all making it seem

Open the schools 

Edited December 12, 2023 by Mr. Mendes

[Aethereal]

I gave up on reviews when they slandered Born To Die. Even when Norman ******* Rockwell was rated as the most acclaimed album of the year, I did not care that much.

 

As for Nicki, the album is filled with mid fillers but it's not atrocious just sleepy. 

[PrettyHurts]

she thnk it's one of the greatest albums of all time and that's all that matters 

[Apolonio ₃₄]

3 hours ago, Bimbo said:

[Sombre]

Oh no, it's definitely dropping to the 60s range now. 

[truthteller]

the needledrop 3/10 (count on AOTY)

 

[Superbitch]

2 hours ago, orange22 said:

Some of the girls don’t have a new album to review 

 

Some girls have acclaimed and Grammy winning albums and songs. Not everyone has that. This is about panned albums
 

2 hours ago, Pink Whitney said:

you’re right it’s HORRIBLE for the self proclaimed “queen” of a genre 

 

 

 

 

you know they love to twist anything to make the “queen” look good lmao. But this is not Twitter they can’t do their maga mental gymnastics here 

Edited December 12, 2023 by Superbitch

[Vixen Eyes]

6 hours ago, Pink Whitney said:

The barbs are literally the only people enjoying this album

 

 

 

Does this count for metacritic though? 

Not really lol

Look at Ajay's reaction

 

[FOCK]

4 hours ago, Kimi said:

New York Times said it best

 

“But what’s most striking is that Minaj, more or less, is as she always has been: a star navigating hip-hop on sometimes untested terms.”

 

This is a well put summation. I agree, Nicki’s approach to hip hop has always been criticised because it dares to go outside the boxes and conventions they desperately want to categorise her in, it’s nothing new. She’s copped tons of criticism for her approach to the genre throughout her career, and yet, she’s always done it her way, has everybody else listing her as an inspiration & trying to do it & remains sitting pretty as the illest ever to. 

 

 

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

6 hours ago, Bimbo said:

[beyonceparkwood]

5 minutes ago, FOCK said:

This is a well put summation. I agree, Nicki’s approach to hip hop has always been criticised because it dares to go outside the boxes and conventions they desperately want to categorise her in, it’s nothing new. She’s copped tons of criticism for her approach to the genre throughout her career, and yet, she’s always done it her way, has everybody else listing her as an inspiration & trying to do it & remains sitting pretty as the illest ever to. 

 

 

Trying to frame horrible music, that is also received horribly, as “out-of-the-box” will always remain so funny 😭 

[Archetype]

30 minutes ago, FOCK said:

This is a well put summation. I agree, Nicki’s approach to hip hop has always been criticised because it dares to go outside the boxes and conventions they desperately want to categorise her in, it’s nothing new. She’s copped tons of criticism for her approach to the genre throughout her career, and yet, she’s always done it her way, has everybody else listing her as an inspiration & trying to do it & remains sitting pretty as the illest ever to. 

 

 

But Nicki’s way on PF2 is inside the (panned) box, so what is the truth 

[supaspaz]

6 hours ago, madonnas said:

Which is funny bc pink friday is her worst album and this is an improvement… but she’s just older and less “in her prime” and you know it’s not good enough to really defend passionately   

I don’t know. This has all the same flaws as PF (way too reliant on treacly ballads) and is way longer, without anything as undeniable as “Roman’s Revenge” or “Did It On ‘Em.” I would say it’s substantially worse.

[ohwow]

the mistake was opening her album with a song that sounded like a subpar youtube fanmade mash-up

[theweekend]

[suburbannature]

Another 60

 

https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-2/amp

 

 

AOTY down to 67. Yet to be added to MC

[justin.]

“Stabilizing at 70’s” is sending me 

[truthteller]

8 hours ago, suburbannature said:

Another 60

 

https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-2/amp

 

 

AOTY down to 67. Yet to be added to MC

added, and staying at 71 on MC w/ 11 reviews now

[naval23]

AOTY: 67

 

"Stabilizing at 70s"

 

[suburbannature]

Another 60 from AllMusic

 

https://www.allmusic.com/album/pink-friday-2-mw0004128257
 

Quote

On her debut studio album, 2010's Pink Friday, Nicki Minaj made it clear she could do it all. The bloodthirsty rap powers she'd displayed on her earlier mixtapes were so abundant she had to organize them as separate characters, but she also had no problem singing sugary hooks or following scandalous diss tracks with bouncy pop tunes designed for the charts. Thirteen years later, Minaj is still striking out in all directions on Pink Friday 2, a sequel to her breakthrough that sees her continuing to stretch her range, but it feels a little different coming from an established superstar than Pink Fridayfelt coming from a relative newcomer. First there's the pop; several tracks reiterate a formula that's resulted in multiple hits for Minaj, that of building out on ubiquitous songs from the past. Her hypersexual rhymes on "Super Freaky Girl" are a tailored fit for the familiar groove of Rick James' "Super Freak" that the song is based on, while "Pink Friday Girls" leans heavily on Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "My Life" samples Blondie's biggest song, "Heart of Glass." The seething rap tracks happen mostly in the album's first act, with concise burners like "Barbie Dangerous" and "FTCU" leading to more nuanced production on the moody J.Cole-aided "Let Me Calm Down" and the infectious meanness of "Big Difference." Minaj imprints herself onto bumpy, island-tinged R&B on "Needle" (featuring Drake, naturally), boisterous club on "Everybody," deep trap on the Futureduet "Nicki Hendrix," and banging dancehall on "Forward from Trini," with help from Jamaican artists Skillibeng and Skeng. The swings between genres are less jarring than when Minaj lets her guard down emotionally. The album begins on a surprisingly mournful note with "Are You Gone Already," a song that reframes Billie Eilish's vaporous "when the party's over" as a place for Minaj to open up about the death of her child's father with a shocking vulnerability. The album's closing moments are similarly glum, with the slogging devotional track "Blessings" giving way to melancholic pop on the indie-flavored "Last Time I Saw You" and ending with the yearning sadness of "Just the Memories." The way Minaj moves between disparate genres and polar extremes of puffed-up flexing and grief makes Pink Friday 2 a disjointed ride. In one way, it harkens back to the scattershot energy of her mixtapes, trying on new styles and sounds like different outfits. For a star of Nicki Minaj's caliber, however, the roller-coaster approach makes the album feel inconsistent and sometimes even randomized, like some stretches of the 70-minute, 22-track playlist are just experiments being presented in the order in which they were conducted. While Minaj is still a masterful rapper, charismatic pop presence, and stunningly talented artist, Pink Friday 2 lacks the cohesion and self-editing that would make it a rightful follow-up to her 2010 mainstream arrival. As it stands, Pink Friday 2 is another collection of Nicki Minaj songs, most of them exhilarating and fun, but some forgettable or awkwardly placed.

 

[justin.]

Down to 70 on Metacritic.

 

I think these might be the final scores. Doesn't seem like anyone else is going to review it.