“As its title suggests, Nicki Minaj‘s fifth album is a sequel to her exuberant 2010 debut ‘Pink Friday’. At times, she makes the connection clear: ‘Pink Friday Girls’, a pop-rap banger that samples Cyndi Lauper‘s ’80s anthem ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, is so keen to recapture the giddy magic of ‘Super Bass’ that it name-checks the ‘Pink Friday’ hit. And when she raps “tried to play me but I shitte”
“Thirteen years after her landmark album Pink Friday, the pop-rap superstar aims to conjure and build on that moment with an ambitious 22-song statement that is a very mixed bag.”
“It's long, it's deep, and there's still more of it come”
