The World According to Nikki Minaj is one of endless surprises and manic wardrobe changes. Naturally, so is The End of the World According to Nikki Minaj. In her new music video for the quasi-inspirational (?) song “Fly”, Nikki and her fembot pop sidekick Rihanna are just a couple of future-modern Women of Wonder, roaming through a smoky post-apocalyptic city, looking fierce and self-assured despite the unexplained mountains of debris surrounding them. In fact, they conquer those mountains, which, according to the song is exactly what they came to do. And prosper and survive and rise and fly and win.
So say it really is the apocolypse, and you and your best friend are the only ones surviving besides a few ninja-lookalikes (the instigators of the apocolypse?). What do you do? Of course, you kick and chop and dice up the ninjas for a snack, that’s a given. But here are the real questions I need answered.
-Do the dangling pair of crushed sunglasses belong to Kanye?
-Will Kanye perish in the apocolypse and if so, does that mean he’s going to Heaven?
-How did Nikki sit in her car when she was wearing her barbed wire dress? Didn’t it poke holes in the seat?
-Did she use a device to call Rihanna to the destruction site? Or just ESP?
– Is Nikki’s first wig a nod to Elvis, and thus, a metaphor for the death and rebirth of rock ‘n roll?
-Was Nikki under agreement with a designer – similar to SJP in Sex and the City – to wear the grey couture gown after the Apocalypse happens?
-Is Rihanna sort of jealous that Nikki gets to wear all the amazing wigs and dresses left on Planet Earth?
-Will Nikki have enough dresses to last until the new human race evolves to make more?
-Is her leopard-print wig intended as a teaching device for future generations of kids or a mating decoy to re-start the leopard populations?
-Same question, but for the zebra wig?
-Rhetorical question: Which animals would you choose to breed after the apocolypse happened?
-Will all post-apocalyptic plants be CGIs?
-Like I said, where is Kanye?
