Why Did Nicki Minaj Abandon Her Original Style?

[Thomas P 18,479]

59 minutes ago, LoisLilMonster said:

It's called growing up As she matured, her preferences and what she wanted to do changed. Some people like to keep being like that until they die like Madonna (and I totally support that, I'm not dragging her) and other people don't

Then that's why Nicki changed

[Manul 7,377]

Pinkprint is an amazing album from start to finish...

[PARADISO 27]

I love Gaga but y'all can stop saying Nicki "stole" it from Gaga. Nicki started out being super eccentric, like Gaga, but then toned down her image, like Gaga. Both of them have evolved over time. 

[sipthistea 21,099]

3 hours ago, Thomas P said:

Wait you dissed The Pinkprint? That album is BY FAR her best album. The other ones have so,e absolute gems, but they're just so stupidly put together, and lack any originality, (bar like 6 songs from each) but Pinkprint both has bops, and then some real emotional and sentimental moments that nicki would have never done befrpe. 

Roman Reloaded is a gem, and is way better than the Boring Print 

[ANVEEROY 61,188]

for this 

[sipthistea 21,099]

15 minutes ago, Anveeroy said:

for this 

This is Nicki's best performance ever. I'd prefer IlluminatAJ all day over the boring version she's today. 

[britneyspears 497]

The change in style accompanied her change in musical style, too. She is delving more into hip-hop than pop.

[StrawberryBlond 14,820]

Because she realised that the flamboyant style that she stole off Gaga (she looked like a standard rap girl back in 2007, before Gaga had got famous) was no longer profiting her. Super Bass and Starships were her only big pop hits and seeing as Starships was the lead single from Roman Reloaded, everything after that was failing and she thought being a pop/rap crossover was the wrong way to go. Plus, urban was in the early stages of a comeback in 2012 and developed more in 2013, so she was definitely realising at this point that pop was on the way out and urban was cool again, so decided to go right back with a proper urban album (well, with one or two pop songs on it) in 2014. And she took her image with it because it clearly wasn't her. She never had any method behind the madness with her outfits. She just dressed like that because everyone was doing it back then and she wanted to be cool. She also lied about being bisexual when she started out because, once again, due to Gaga, female artists claiming this was all the rage. It's now the trend to look natural and sing about real stuff, particularly if you're a black female rapper. Wearing blonde weaves, blue contacts, bleaching your skin and singing pop songs would make people call you a coon nowadays. She realised that the black community and the rap community was about to turn her back on her if she kept trying to be white. Going natural is the way to go now. Nicki's always gone with what popular. She's fake, literally and figuratively.

[Thomas P 18,479]

1 hour ago, sipthistea said:

Roman Reloaded is a gem, and is way better than the Boring Print 

Ya okay 

[fede ARTPOP 6,737]

19 hours ago, MarlonBrando7 said:

Fixed and also answer your question 

[TheRoof 21,600]

1 minute ago, fede ARTPOP said:

Only facts and tea sis

[Fashion Baby 283]

19 hours ago, sipthistea said:

But Nicki invented the Harajuku Barbie style 

Actually the Barbie style comes from Lil Kim 

[C1trus 4,341]

19 hours ago, Anveeroy said:

for this 

You mean this?

 

[Ferrer Zorola 3,966]

21 hours ago, sipthistea said:

But Nicki invented the Harajuku Barbie style 

Gwen Stefani made it mainstream she didn't invent it either obviously 

[Ferrer Zorola 3,966]

She abandoned it bc it didn't come from an honest or integral place 

besides, she fired her original hairdresser