I hate to defend that (awful) song, but it's club and radio-ready pop music, and club and radio-ready pop music doesn't need to have anything other than stupid lyrics and they don't need to be written by the person who sings them. It just needs to be an earworm, totally disposable and totally stupid. Not that this is news to anyone.

Full disclosure: I enjoyed what I heard of Nicki Minaj early on in her career. She did a verse in Beyonce's "Single Ladies" (sample line: "Now I'm that bitch, now I'm the bad witch, I need a lot of cheese up on my sandwich") that was so stupid that I found it hard not to enjoy.

Ok this fucker spike just said everything I was gonna say, thanx bro.

Also: if this guy is trying to be Alex Jones or whatever he needs to kick up the insane theories by like 10,000%

Of course, there is another argument; "demands are created and appetites stimulated. Pop music is the worst example of this. There are wicked music moguls cynically manipulating the hearts and minds of young teenagers so as to get them to part with their pocket money." This is a worthless argument pursued by those unlucky ones who have never really been moved by the glories of pop music. They may as well have never been teenagers.

-The KLF

Right, I never expect deep meanings from pop music. I'm saying that even for pop music, her stuff really comes off as randomized word salad.

That's a thing now. I think it's being called "hashtag rap". Don't shoot the messenger.

Randomized word salad is more compelling than 99.9% of pop lyrics, it's kind of what makes her stuff acceptable.

I hope someday "hashtag rap" sounds as ridiculous as "AOL keyword rap."

Also, the funny thing is that the more rap and hip-hop "evolve," the better and more intellectual stuff by NWA starts to sound. They're becoming the Pink Floyd of their genre.

You mean early innovators mostly known for their horrible, watered down later work?

I, for one, always appreciated NWA for their greatness.