Nicki Minaj is buzzing on the news wires at the moment, she has a new number out called Check It Out, she performed it live with her feat Will.I.Am on Letterman recently lets see if this song and this Rap Barbie justifies the media buzz it’s creating?
The Video
The video is typical of all her vids, glossy, colourful with plenty of emphasis on those Minaj hips and making sure she manages to get at least 2 wig changes in. Is it us or is the lip sync seriously out on this? Pretty good is our verdict although ‘Your Love’ was better , even had a plot line….a music video with a plot line………….classic!
The Song
This song has some input from Will.I.Am so on paper should be decent. 20 seconds in though and our worst fears are confirmed and she’s ditched the ‘Your Love’ decent formula and we have slipped back into the bubblegum rap scenario. There was repetition on ‘Your Love’ but it didn’t grate, with this song it does. 50 airplays of this number and you’ll be sick of it. Musical technicals are average at best. Apparently this song is a reworking of an old tune by Buggles called Video killed the radio star so the originality sort of goes out of the window as it’s strikingly similar ………..not good!
On the plus side it’s a happy incredibly catchy number and would go as far as to say this is preferred to Cheryl Cole’s new number but at least that had some originality to it.
All in all we are back in bubblegum territory with this song and the rating is 2 and a half stars at best!
Chart Prediction
Could do shockingly well despite our review and the Will.I.Am presence helps even more.
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