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Nicki Minaj has established she’s capable of variety, and also capable of doing a lot of things very well. She routinely steals the spotlight from other rappers on their songs, and she’s a great pop star (hi, I think “Starships” is great, thanks for listening). “Pills N Potions” shows she can deliver a perfectly fine heartbreak anthem — and hey, those rap bits are good, the best parts of the song. But Minaj can’t make this more than a slow-lane, lighters-in-the-air ballad, despite doing better than most could have.
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Nicki Minaj: great on hip-hop songs, awful on pop songs — especially her own. After the adrenaline rush of “Lookin’ Ass *****,” I was dearly hoping for a hard hip-hop record from Minaj, but she’s clearly decided the money is more important than her art
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“Pills N Potions” sucks less than “Starships,” but it sucks more drowsily, which is exactly what you’d expect from Dr. Luke and Cirkut giving Nicki a lighters ballad. I didn’t like this either when it was called “Adore You” or “Battle Cry,” or for that matter “Marilyn Monroe” or “Fly.” In theory I don’t begrudge people their pop crossovers, not in this music economy. I want Nicki Minaj to be a star, and have since her still-astonishing “Roman Holiday” at the Grammys — which would have been iconic if Nicki got iconic songs. Instead, she got Sia with drug metaphors, and got predictable.
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Because “Your Love” and “Right Thru Me” were the one-two punch of singles that launched Nicki into the stratosphere, right? Oh wait, they weren’t, they sucked, and so does “Pills N Potions.” The production is drab, and Nicki’s weak singing voice is left alone in front of it
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Final score: 5.20
uh oh the critics didn't like this one that much
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