After performing her new single "Freedom" at the American Music Awards Sunday night, Nicki Minaj is feeding her hungry Barbz once again and opting for the glam over the wacky with a new video for her middle-of-the-road R&B tweets, which is the second single from the re-release of her sophomore album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: The Re-Up," where she talks about her road to success, her idea of fame and dives into how she isn't interested in having any big names collaborate with her on tracks. The rapstress is obviously trying to make a statement on her newest video.
Fame is a funny thing, especially when it comes to someone with such obvious talent as Minaj, whose stardom seemed assured from the start. It was only a few years ago that the superstar rapper earned her ubiquity with a string of explosive, immediately identifiable cameos. With a whip-smart wit, fantastic verbal skills and a fluid, inventive flow, Minaj was and remains a game-changing talent in a very competitive field. While she seems to not be a big fan of any artist right now, she is still showing plenty of love to her fans.
Written by Minaj herself, "Freedom," a shockingly mediocre humblebrag track finds Minaj recounting her ascent, her fame, her talent, her wealth and all that it affords. Musically, the song is a lowtempo alternative hip hop and ambient genre song also influenced by pop music. Lyrically, Minaj is still confrontational yet reflective, talking about her life and her being in the spotlight and fame. "Freedom" takes Minaj in a more reflective direction, as she looks back on her meteoric career in typically self-aggrandizing form and her rapping and positiveness towards the emotion behind the song.
Minaj braves the elements in the Colin Tilley-directed stylish clip which features the 29-year-old pop-rap superstar in a series of gorgeous high-fashion looks against various back drops from Noah's Arc to mansion banisters to modern sculpture donning a multi-colored gown out in the middle of the dreary English countryside before ascending the stairway to heaven, as smoke fills the space behind her while lip-syncing the song. The clip starts out in black and white, and transitions into the more lively and colorful world, which seems to be a way of interpreting the freedom aspect of the song.
Fame is a funny thing, especially when it comes to someone with such obvious talent as Minaj, whose stardom seemed assured from the start. It was only a few years ago that the superstar rapper earned her ubiquity with a string of explosive, immediately identifiable cameos. With a whip-smart wit, fantastic verbal skills and a fluid, inventive flow, Minaj was and remains a game-changing talent in a very competitive field. While she seems to not be a big fan of any artist right now, she is still showing plenty of love to her fans.
Written by Minaj herself, "Freedom," a shockingly mediocre humblebrag track finds Minaj recounting her ascent, her fame, her talent, her wealth and all that it affords. Musically, the song is a lowtempo alternative hip hop and ambient genre song also influenced by pop music. Lyrically, Minaj is still confrontational yet reflective, talking about her life and her being in the spotlight and fame. "Freedom" takes Minaj in a more reflective direction, as she looks back on her meteoric career in typically self-aggrandizing form and her rapping and positiveness towards the emotion behind the song.
Minaj braves the elements in the Colin Tilley-directed stylish clip which features the 29-year-old pop-rap superstar in a series of gorgeous high-fashion looks against various back drops from Noah's Arc to mansion banisters to modern sculpture donning a multi-colored gown out in the middle of the dreary English countryside before ascending the stairway to heaven, as smoke fills the space behind her while lip-syncing the song. The clip starts out in black and white, and transitions into the more lively and colorful world, which seems to be a way of interpreting the freedom aspect of the song.
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