The music itself youre going to get every side that Ive ever shown and then a little bit extra. Literally in the studio we were cracking up laughing, having fun, and enjoying ourselves. I had to be politically correct, but this album I am just creating music, and theres such a big difference. The standard artwork was released on Maand the deluxe artwork was revealed on March 8, 2012, both through Twitter. The album focuses on Roman Zolanski, one of Minajs alter egos that was first featured on Pink Friday. Its gonna be crazy, its gonna be important for hip-hop and pop culture.
Its singles The Boys, Freedom, and High School experienced moderate success on the Hot RBHip-Hip Songs component chart. It contained an additional disc with seven newly recorded tracks and an exclusive behind-the-scenes DVD to supplement the standard version of the original album. The album was additionally promoted through the Pink Friday Tour and the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour, which visited North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania throughout May and December 2012.
Pound the Alarm and Va Va Voom peaked at numbers fifteen and twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Its lead single Starships peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.įollow-up singles Right by My Side and Beez in the Trap experienced moderate success on the Hot RBHip-Hop Songs component chart. Internationally, the album peaked at number one in Canada and the United Kingdom, and reached the top five in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined album sales, track sales, on-demand audio and video streams equivalent of two million album-sale units. In doing so, it became Minajs second number-one album in the country, and was additionally her first to debut in the peak position. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 selling 253,000 copies in its first week. Stylistically, the album is divided by a first half of hip hop tracks and a second half of dance-pop songs. 'Va Va Voom' was included on Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded as a deluxe edition bonus track, but was included on the standard track listing of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded The Re-Up and released as a single from both. Looking to transition from her debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), Minaj wanted to make a follow-up record about just having fun. In addition to the songs from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, the album includes an additional seven new songs recorded by Minaj. It was released on April 2, 2012, by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Republic. Tom Ewing of said that it 'doesn't matter' that the album is inconsistent and 'makes no attempt to marry its rap and pop impulses.Roman Reloaded ) is the second studio album by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj. Jessica Hopper of praised Minaj's 'rap offerings' as 'nearly flawless' and wrote of the album's portion of pop tracks, 'Her artistic potency dissolves, and she's just another well-finessed quirky diva'. In a positive review for, journalist called it a '-free mega-pop album' and commented that 'the energy never flags'. 'Too many of its 19 tracks leave Minaj simply treading the territory of other radio divas', wrote Kyle Anderson in. 's Matthew Cole panned it as a 'mediocre rap album' and felt that 'Minaj conveys no personality' when she does not rap. John Calvert of described the album as 'pop postmodernity in an advanced state of hollow, banal meaninglessness' and felt that the pop songs have 'absolutely nothing to do with Minaj's art'. David Amidon of accused Minaj of 'doubling down on her cartoonish elements' and criticized its first half as 'very poorly thought out rap music masquerading as pop'.
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