I get that Nicki Minaj gets billed as the “black Barbie” or the Lady Gaga of female rappers, but the outfit she wore for VH1 Divas Salute the Troops is just whack. I love all of these colors separately, and to be honest, the colors in her tights and dress are a lot of fun, but this ensemble would work better if Nicki took it down a notch. I’m getting a total Willy Wonka candy vibe, and the poodle hair just isn’t doing it for me.
What do you think of Nicki’s outfit? Is it offensively overdone or does it suit her just right? See more images on Just Jared.
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The shoes are cute, but thats waaaaay too wtf/
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It’s interesting…
orchid / 236 posts
Well considering it was for the troops (and not supposed to be self-promotion…) she was way over-done. Katy Perry left me speechless…. in a good way. Love her.
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she’s NUTS but i LOVE IT
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it looks like someone threw a disco diva in a blender…
daisy / 502 posts
She tries too hard to stand out; to be unique just to ultimately look ridiculous.
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Its a lot of take in. She looks like she came from the disco ages.
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She looks like a DDR character or a Japanese anime.
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Lmao she’s a joke to me.. sorry.
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she’s that hey arnold nickelodeon character’s black sister.
http://www.rugratonline.com/hamov4ca.jpg
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I’m just not seeing the wtf-ness. I don’t think it’s “crazy” at all :S I think it’s unique and I like it.
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i don’t like the way she dresses to begin with, so blah.
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@decodexmexkc@xanga - yea her shoes r hot but nothing else is
the hair!! omg…
lily / 5148 posts
@flawsnall@xanga - agreed.
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she’s a performer… just like Lady Gaga. How would you like it if Lady Gaga wore jeans and a t?
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I don’t think the point of it is to look pretty or coordinated. It’s to catch your attention. Which it has obviously done.
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WHACK: 1. adj. appalling in nature, unconventional 2….
For example: Your word choice is WHACK.
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mmm love my nicki!
sunflower / 342 posts
@lonelystrangergirl@xanga - If Lady Gaga wore a T-Shirt and jeans I wouldn’t care so much because I would be there for the music.
As for this outfit, credits to Nicki for trying to be “unique” and everything, but if your style is over-riding your talent, then.. uh-oh :/. it’s kind of like…hairology (if you saw that episode of glee.)
xo’
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i like it minus her hair. it just reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmx3xGhvvo
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@RaVnR@xanga - LOL this is fact.
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tryiing waaaaaaaay too hard…nuthin’ good about looking like ronald mcdonald on acid….
daisy / 502 posts
@tialoca1313@xanga - Yessss! haha
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where is words&thoughts lol i want to see her view on this ha!
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she coulda pulled it off if her hair wasn’t so crazy. thats way too much to look at.
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@paulinemalpage@xanga - Haha that’s what I was thinking!
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i think it would have been a little better without the hair. if the hair was a little more tame/normal, then i think it would have been like “oh okay, quirky.” with it, though, it’s a little over the top
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I just have no words for this. i love Nicki I do but this look..is offensive to my eyes
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it’s entertaining… that’s the entire goal of being a performer
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I like it, except for her hair… it’s the whack part.
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Looks like a paint factory was sick on her…
But I don’t think it’s necessarily supposed to look great, it’s more for the shock factor.
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ew.
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I love her!
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I think it would have looked a lot better if her hair didn’t look like a poodle.
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@lonelystrangergirl@xanga - It’s be awesome if she wore that. I hate her and Nicki’s new sense of “style”
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I was at that concert bitches!
and I could see her hair from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the back where I was haha
sunflower / 487 posts
Really, what kills me about this pic is, her hair. It reminds me of a clown-do. Although I have to admit, it is the shape stewie’s head from family guy.
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too much.
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she looks like an acid trip gone badly.
orchid / 127 posts
I think she is totally unique and glamorous lol. I LOVE her. Screw the box lol. Why try to fit in? She’s crazy and crazily talented.
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I don’t think it’s anyway offensive but it is too much…
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@l0veBabyx@xanga - I so agree.
She needs to take her butt implants and get fucking lost. Ick.
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thats just nicki for you.! i think shes the only women in the industry who can pull that off.(:
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@paulinemalpage@xanga - Hahah, that’s the first thing I thought too!
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I admire her for doing whatever she wants, whenever she wants. I’m kind of into the whole not matching thing, even for myself at times, and so I really do like what she did here.
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@ms_jones - I agree 100%.
orchid / 127 posts
@Losertastic@xanga - lmao @ acid trip gone badly. that seems like it would be a HOT MESS. it seems like acid trips are already intense to begin with.
orchid / 127 posts
@ThenSarahSays@xanga - i LOVE her. she thrives on haters. so haters, keep hating! lol
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I think she has that unique style but it’s more fun than bizarre. Lady Gaga is borderline creepy with her fashion but I’m glad Nicki Minaj is out to make a statement.
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i really like it actually. EXCEPT for the hair. the hair is horrible. agh.
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mehh, there have been worse.
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She looks stupid–even my nieces (under the age of 7) saw this picture and were appalled. Or actually… laughing at her.
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i hated it
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oh my. it is interesting [: lmfao
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tacky, tacky, tacky,
damn i hate nicki minaj.
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She kinda looks like a mudkip?
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Much like MIA, she’s a beautiful girl who is apparently colorblind.
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@lonelystrangergirl@xanga - She’s just more than performer, she’s involved with every single project and was involved in every step of her new album. You should look up the biography VH1 did about her. I HATE mainstream, but I saw T.I’s biography and Nicki Minaj’s and I have much respect for them both. I highly encourage everyone to look them up. It will make you think twice about judging people.
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This is a non-issue. Irrelevant beyond belief. Minaj is simply one more cookie-cutter bubblegum starlet in the endless conveyor belt of crap force fed to the masses by the media.
I pay no mind to crap of this sort. Lady Gag, Ke$hit, Lil’ Wang, Black Eyed Piss = ALL CRAP, completely undeserving of the money and fame they make off of that derivative, piss-poor and unoriginal earsores they call songs. On top of being annoying and ridiculous, sound-wise, they’re also eyesores. Ugh.
daisy / 557 posts
Love her; hate that hair.
I wish i could throw it away lol Actually that’s how my hair looks i the morning O.O
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DO NOT COMPARE NICKI MINAJ TO M.I.A.
MIA has been dressing the way she does for years and she doesn’t wear stupid attention craving wigs, that’s how she is and she’s not trying to do it to impress anyone or for attention, she doesn’t try that hard because she’s true to herself, and I really respect that about her.
If you look back at Nicki’s outfits from before she was actually famous she was not like this. She didnt’ wear wigs, she didn’t wear all this crazy makeup and she didn’t dress anything like that, nothing like that, the funny thing is she actually used to wear a lot of black, and now she’s wearing all these colors out of nowhere. I actually used to love Nicki Minaj, alot. I really respected her, although i’ve always liked Lil Kim better i’ve never thought Nicki was copying Lil Kim, theres a lot of female rappers out there and Nicki was good and that got her where she is now.She really was good, if you listen to her raps from like 2 years ago or even older they sound good and they’re not that stupid robotic barbie shit, her raps don’t make sense at all anymore, it’s just stuttering and calling herself barbie all the damn time. I definitely think the fame changed her, you don’t have to agree with me that’s just my opinion, I don’t hate her or have anything against her i’m just saying I miss the old Nicki.. and yes I do think this outfit is attention craving, that doesn’t look good, you have to be blind to think that looks good.
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I don’t care about her outfit. I freakin love her music.
sunflower / 447 posts
I think she tries to look like a clown on purpose. Its the whole Lady Gaga thing — where they dress up bad to attract attention.
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In my opinion, both nicki minaj & lady gaga are clowns. Here nicki minaj just dresses the part…..
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@freshh_surveyss@xanga - I agree with everything you said. I feel the same way.. no one seems to know the “old” nicki before she got famous & how different she was back then. Today she’s a different person, and it’s a shame how she let other influences take over who she was. She lost sight of who she was, I can respect that nor be a fan of hers just for that reason alone.
rose / 834 posts
female wayne can’t rap for shit..
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@RaVnR@xanga - i find that as a compliment. hahah!
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She’s become a parody of herself.