Nicki Minaj News - Nicki Minaj Brings Pope as Her Date to the 2012 Grammy Awards (PHOTOS) - Celebuzz
Yesterday, Whitney Houston died. Today both the Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week AND the Grammy's are paying their respect to a legend that seems to have succumbed to the tolls of drugs to her body. Everyone from fashionistas, bloggers, producers and fans are paying tribute...except Nicki Minaj it seems. She decided to go ahead in a Red Ridinghood - like red cape Versace number and bring a Pope look-alike as her escort to the Grammy's. I am not religious and much less a fan of Catholocism as I believe many of its premises to be more like the McDonald's or Marlbaro corporation then an organization to give people hope. Don't get me started on this.
The issue here is that a relatively newcomer to the music game was bestowed the honor of attending the Grammy's and despite the still fresh death of a musical super-star has decided to make her the focus of attention at the event. How incredibly disrespectful. In fact...The fact that death is one of the major topics of today (check the tweets or covers of any newspaper), makes the whole religious reference even more distasteful. I will take this a step further by saying that the House of Versace should have pulled the plug on the idea immediately considering the circumstances and saved it for a later publicity stunt opportunity.
Interestingly enough, I somewhat discussed (if not anticipated) such attention-whore behavior in a recent blog posting "Exposed to a Good Spanking - I hated you Mom" > I wrote about the current trend of women trying to out-shock the next and living their own ir-reality shows. No different from M.I.A.'s recent random middle finger to the crowd doing a happy song about love during Madonna's Superbowl halftime show, Minaj's is using one of the most watching music award programs in order to boost record sales. Here's the thing, it will get her more Twitter hits...it will get her more online searches...but it won't boost record sales. Why? It has nothing to do with the religious reference but more that, (a) real music lovers are sending shout outs to Whitney Houston (b) real artists and performers are annoyed by this copy cat antic (c) she's a rapper. I'm sorry but in the history of music, only pop is associated with this type of costuming. (Little Kim tried this a few times and everyone just wrote it off as another half naked hip hopper - see Diana Ross's boob lift to Kim on YouTube (d) We've seen this before - Madonna..duh? ..not to mention the people that are Catholic or just plain Christian. I think this may put a bullet in her cross-over attempts.
Does this really shock you? Are you really surprised? Do you want to run out and download her music? I'm not religious and I'm not offended..I just feel whom ever is giving this girl the "go ahead" needs to be fired. The timing was tacky , not to mention that the red hood is not that fabulous! Now if she wore a killer red Versace figure hugging extreme gown in red with a hood then performed on stage where her Pope beau would join her, THAT would have perhaps made an attempt at art. Walking in with a random old, while male who's paid to be there while she where a baggy nun's outfit in Scarlet Letter red with black sequins? Ouuu.. how original. I'm sure no one's ever thought of that... http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/news/050411/madonna2.jpg <-------------------- check this link out
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