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Aug 2, 2011Pink Friday is full of boring....the most confounding thing about Pink Friday is that it lacks style, lacks weirdness, whatever your opinions of how deeply that weirdness goes.
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Dec 21, 2010Pink Friday lives or dies on Minaj's ability to fully embody all of the various personas she toys with, the singer, the rapper, the lover, the fighter, the tomboy, the girly girl, the big sister, the bitch. But she isn't always engaging, and she doesn't always sound at home with this material.
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Dec 15, 2010Living up to expectations is tough, especially ones as high as those that have been hovering over Minaj throughout 2010. But it's hard to see who actually wanted to hear a record like this, stripped of curiosities and bombast, that leaves the biggest talent in hip hop with more to prove than ever.
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Dec 9, 2010It's this seeming lack of confidence, contradictory to the poise she shows elsewhere, which identifies the problems with Pink Friday, an often wobbly first effort that shows enormous promise.
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Dec 9, 2010You're left with an album that's nearly fantastic, the frustrating sound of an artist who can't work out whether she should go her own way or try and fit in with the crowd, even when the right answer is staring her in the face.
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Dec 9, 2010Pink Friday wins merely on points, rather than the knockout punch it should have been.
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UncutSep 19, 2012Her split personality makes for an oddly polarised debut. [Feb 2011, p.84]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 395 out of 561
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Mixed: 59 out of 561
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Negative: 107 out of 561
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