She just needs to do something like The Re-Up and I'm happy.

It was a re-release

You're acting like it was her brand new album. I've seen a LOT of comments on Urban blogs praising the production and the quality of the record.

Like I said, it's her highest Metacritic score. All she would need for her next album is a few UIFs and more of TRU for her to succeed.

I don't want pop unless it's very good like VVV and SB, and they should be delegated to deluxe tracks.
I'd ONLY be here for a house song if it a) has some kind of hip-hop undertone beatwise and b) is some real, hard rapping. Whip It is great, but it's too girly.

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I know that girl. The point I'm making is that regardless of whether it's a re-release or a new album. The type of people that would normally buy this type of material from her in general, Nicki has kind of pushed away at this point and the new pop top 40 fans aren't going to be rushing out to buy a bunch of hood knocks either. If she was to release a brand new TRU style album, I don't think it would make much of a difference in the amount of people here for it unless she was to release some outstandingly amazing Album Of The Year contender type urban material.

I think it's going to take a lot for her to win back her urban fan base to the level that it was and she's going to have to impress them 5x as much as she normally would. Commercial stuff like TRU or a random R&B album isn't going to do it. At this point I feel like her best bet is to stick it out with the pop stuff and try to extend and build up a stronger pop fan base.

I agree.

Maybe a few R&B influenced songs on the album, but not an entire album of it.

I'd be here for it. Maybe a few tracks, but not the entire album.

Well there's your first mistake.

Lol. Unless she's going to do music like the weeknd or how to dress well she should leave this dead genre alone.

I know what you said, and the tracks from TRU, specifically High School reached Top 50 on iTunes after it was released.

The OP didn't mean an R&B album, he meant one with influences, like the songs in the OP. Nicki wrote and recorded TRU in four weeks. It wasn't even a hard project, and yet it's getting her the best reviews of her career. Like we both said, all she needs is the same material, or even a Take Care (which wouldn't be hard for Nicki), and a hot first single, and she's set.

It really isn't a hard task
The problem at hand was that she was releasing the wrong singles from TRU (Freedom and TB), and she was doing the dual-single **** from PFRR (BITT still went #7 on Urban), which didn't give a chance for anything to shine.

That's what I've been saying! I agree with that.

I don't think she should do a complete album like this, but definetely have many sophisticated songs like this on TPP.

Can't Let You Go >>>>>

Tbh

If she wants to end her career.