Nicki Minaj made headlines last month for leaving an audience waiting hours for her Pink Friday 2 World Tour show to start in Montreal. According to fans it was well past 11 p.m. when the rapper took to the stage. It wasn’t really her fault. It was a flight delay,...
show to start in Montreal. According to fans it was well past 11 p.m. when the rapper took to the stage. It wasn’t really her fault. It was a flight delay, or so it was reported.
's 14-year-old predecessor. The audience, who seemed largely unbothered by the singer’s late entrance, erupted into sincere applause.that the crowd zealously sang back every lyric to their favorite artist, the moment the Trinidadian Queen of Rap emerged from the stage and rapped her first word, the packed stadium of, otherwise, extremely individual people, became a single hive mind of Nicki Minaj lyrics and inflection.
Visually, the production value underpromised and overdelivered. The stage looked simple enough before the show. But with pyrotechnics, fog jets, an impressive light design, and an assemblage of futuristically dressed dancers, a simple black stage became a spectacle fit for Nicki Minaj . During the first set change, Nicki’s famous faux British accent spoke softly through the speaker stacks, over an innocuous late '90s electronic beatMiss Kittin, or even Moby . The audience was left to mundanely check their phones and watches, as if at an intermission ofWhen the rapper returned to the stage she wore a black leotard with sculptural golden hands across her chest. The hand theme continued throughout the backdrop where shadows of hands moved across an abstract pink scene.
Unfortunately, the incredible crescendoing energy garnered by this verifiable dream team of rappers came to a complete halt for half an hour while stage hands attempted to remedy some, presumably, pretty serious technical difficulties. The downtime before Nicki Minaj’s return to stage was so lengthy, that groups of concertgoers were seen making a mass exodus. At this point it was well past midnight.
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