Dear Readers;
If ya stayed up after 11:00 to watch this on the Grammies you have my condolences! The only good thing was that McCartney played after her and that got the bad taste out of my mouth!
You could either call this the asshole of the week, the loser of the day or the lows and highs of the Grammies!
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In arguably one of the strangest Grammy sets ever, Minaj’s theatrical production choreographed by Gaga’s former creative director Laurieann Gibson borrowed its theme from the 1973 horror film “The Exorcist.” Like the movie’s lead character Regan MacNeil, portrayed by Linda Blair, Minaj’s on stage character is possessed by a demon.
In the opening scene, Minaj appears in a confessional booth, growling at the priest. The show detours to a mini-movie in which a priest arrives to her home to perform an exorcism. When the minister meets Minaj’s character in her bedroom, the rapper introduces him to her alter-ego Roman.
The show intensifies when Minaj returns to the stage, rapping her new song “Roman’s Holiday” while strapped to a torture chamber table. After breaking loose from the contraption, the “Pink Friday” rapper joins center stage her dancers dressed in hooded monk costumes.
By show’s end, Minaj is laying on her back, levitating above the stage, seemingly a part of some sort of ritualistic ceremony.
The shock show was cluttered and focused too much on theatrics than selling the audience on the new song. It will be interesting to see how it impacts interest in Minaj’s sophomore album, “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” due out in April.
Thank God Paul came out and saved the last few minutes!