It felt more to me like a diary, the songs were more introspective and stuff like that.with this particular album I felt that it was time to give people a moment to enjoy the lyrics, and enjoy the beats, and enjoy the voices. So I made a very diverse album." She added that with her first album, "I was a too open Nicki Minaj. I've tried to make it very, very balanced, because I don't ever want to be boxed in, and that's always what drives me. The music itself you're going to get every side that I've ever shown and then a little bit extra. Literally in the studio we were cracking up laughing, having fun, and enjoying ourselves. I had to be politically correct, but this album I am just creating music, and there's such a big difference. I felt like I was making music to please everyone else. In an interview following the premiere of the album's lead single, " Starships", Minaj told Ryan Seacrest, "I've never had this much fun recording music in my life. When Minaj was asked on Twitter to describe the album in one word, she tweeted "freedom". The standard artwork was released on March 1, 2012, and the deluxe artwork was revealed on March 8, 2012, both through Twitter. The album focuses on Roman Zolanski, one of Minaj's alter egos that was first featured on Pink Friday.
In November 2011, Minaj announced on Twitter that the album would be released on February 14, 2012, though it was later delayed to April 3, 2012. įollowing the success of Minaj's debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), Cash Money CEO, Brian " Birdman" Williams announced to Billboard that Minaj was aiming for a first quarter release in 2012. Minaj describing the impact she expected the then-forthcoming album to have on the music industry. It's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be important for hip-hop and pop culture. The album was additionally promoted through the Pink Friday Tour and the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour, which visited North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania throughout May and December 2012. " Pound the Alarm" and " Va Va Voom" peaked at numbers fifteen and twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Follow-up singles " Right by My Side" and " Beez in the Trap" experienced moderate success on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs component chart. Its lead single " Starships" peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. The album was promoted with five singles. Internationally, the album peaked at number one in Canada and the United Kingdom, and reached the top five in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined album sales, track sales, on-demand audio and video streams equivalent of two million album-sale units. In doing so, it became Minaj's second number-one album in the country, and was additionally her first to debut in the peak position. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 selling 253,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded received generally mixed reviews from music critics, who were ambivalent towards Minaj's exploration of dance-pop. As its executive producer, Minaj enlisted a variety of collaborators. Stylistically, the album is divided by a first half of hip hop tracks and a second half of dance-pop songs. Looking to transition from her debut studio album, Pink Friday (2010), Minaj wanted to make a follow-up record about "just having fun". It was released on April 2, 2012, by Young Money, Cash Money and Universal Republic. It does not store any personal data.Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, also known as just Roman Reloaded, is the second studio album by Trinidadian-born American rapper Nicki Minaj. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.