Posted on 02/13/2012 12:04:30 AM PST by Pinkbell
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Nicki Minaj showed up to the Grammy's dressed in a Little Red Riding Hoodesque outfit with a man dressed as the Pope by her side:
This outfit later made sense upon seeing Minaj's performance.
Host LL Cool J said that the performance would be one that would be talked about. I wondered what kind of performance would be so great. Merely expecting just good singing, dancing, and stage affects was too naive of me. Minaj decided to go for shock value. The favorite way for the Hollywood set to do this is to mock religion - namely Christianity.
In the performance, Nicki is Roman her alter ego. Researching, I found this:
Roman Zolanski
This is bulls*t Roman, who is Nicki Minaj's alter-ego, was born out of rage and became quickly a frequently used ego by Minaj.
Roman Zolanski is a very agressive, rebellious, and angry young man. He is always honest about how he feels about something or someone and will always speak out in a rude manner against it. On the other hand, let's say that his heart pumps out rage into his veins. Nicki Minaj has said that Roman is her ego who doesn't have a f*ck to give. He will often speak his mind,making it clearly obvious who he speaking of without giving out names. He grew up without a father, and was very active in Church when he was younger and aspired to be an Actor. Roman Zolanski is a male, but many people think of the alter-ego as Nicki's twin-sister, because Nicki stated that Roman is like a twin to her. Though, the truth is that Roman is Nicki's twin-brother, and Roman represents always the more rude and angry side of Nicki.
Sexuality
Roman, who is a male, is homosexual. This is very important to notice, because Roman as well as Nicki always seems to get enraged by homophobes frequently.
Roman, got born out of Nicki's rage towards the people who are ignorant and plain hateful, and Nicki, who is very respectful to the gay community, states that Roman is indeed a homosexual male, who always seem to defend her (Nicki) and himself from the bad people out there, who try to bring them both down.
http://nickiminaj.wikia.com/wiki/Roman_Zolanski
Multiple personality disorder, anyone?
Returning to the performance, it begins with Minaj as Roman in a confessional. She begins babbling incoherently and singning, "I'm So Pretty" in a shrill, evil sounding voice. The priest is seen on the other side covering his ears and pleading with her to stop.
A video then begins to play on a screen in the theater showing an elderly lady opening the door to a home. A priest enters and asks where he is. She says he is upstairs and sick. The video then shows Minaj upstairs singing "I'm So Pretty" and maniacally putting on lipstick. The priest ascends the stairs and enters the room Minaj is in. She tells him that he doesn't belong there. He asks her her name. She screeches "Roman!" before zooming to the ceiling.
Now the actual performace begins. Minaj is chained to a board in a set which is clearly designed to be a Catholic Church. Men dressed as priests or monks are dancing around her. She sings, "Take your medication, Roman. Take a short vacation, Roman. You'll be ok." She then breaks free of the chains. The monks/priests dance around her in a sexual manner, some taking off the top part of their clothes. At one point I see someone in a bondage like suit simulating sex with a monk/priest on the podium. Two people come on stage in nude body suits and writhe around. A choir then begins to sing the Christmas song "Oh, Come All Ye Faithful". The priest comes out during this and attempts to perform an exorcism. He fails and falls over as Minaj "levitates" into the air rapping crazily. The demon in Roman is apparently too strong to be exocised by the priest.
I watched this in shock. By the time they started singing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful", my mouth was literally hanging open. It stayed there until after the performance ended. If Minaj was trying to shock, she most certainly suceeded. Did she do something new in attacking the Church? No. Lady Gaga has done it before in vile music videos, one where she dresses as a nun, pretends to swallow a rosary, and has gay men simulate sex around her. Vile as it was, her videos weren't shown on primetime television on a major network. Minaj reached a large platform of the American public and the public in other countries watching the Grammy's. The performace, complete with fire and smoke, came off as a satanic ritual and complete mockery of the Catholic Church.
Reading comments afterwards on sites like Youtube and Twitter, one can find a bit of solace in the fact that a lot of people were disturbed and pointed out the performance for what it was. Don't mistake me, though, I found people defending the performance. Whether they didn't understand it or understood and didn't care is another matter, the latter being more disturbing. The other thing that is sad is that the producers of the Grammy's and a major network approved said performance, obviously okay with the derision of the Catholic Church.
We are living in an age where it is becoming more and more acceptable to ridicule Christians. Those who hate Christianity are becoming more and more emboldened, and it is further revealed when a performance like this is shown on primetime network television.
Awful really. The woman couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
Plus also I like that Ms. Adele kept things simple last night and was thankful to have beeon able to be at the Grammys last night after dealing with personal health issues. And adding that, she is a biggirl just like me who enjoys her (Adele’s) music. :)
The talentless announcer said she went from being in the bunk below me on the bus to an enormous talent. She never left the bunk and when are they going to tell all these gang bangers that this and thier sh## aint music. In most nominated catagories they had to include this crap and guess what? they lost. Appeasement goes only so far. To be fair the homeless man on the corner with his spons has more talent.
Never heard of her until now... don’t expect to ever buy her shit.
And Adele won the prize and a standing ovation while Minage barely got applause. She and Katie Perry were totally tacky on a night where everyone tried to keep it classy.
This was just “acting up” by an unassimilated ethnic malcontent, striving to set itself apart from millions of similar nobodys in a very competitive field dominated/managed by wealthy enemies of Judeo-Christian values.
In the larger scheme of things, these creatures “don’t matter”.
The music industry and especially the awards ceremonies are occult circle jerks. Nicki is just another meatbag who was willing to sell her soul for thirty pieces of silver. It’s a terrible deal but as time passes more people are willing to do it for a lot less.
“Those who hate Christianity are becoming more and more emboldened, and it is further revealed when a performance like this is shown on primetime network television.”
These programs just clarify a line between people of faith and people who believe in nothing. Like Jerry Springer, it really shows a cultural divide: some people go to work everyday (or have other things to do on their weekday mornings), and others watch Jerry Springer. The two groups rarely meet, unless the former is taking pictures of the latter in Wal-Mart.
That is how I also see Grammy Awards viewers; it isn’t like I’m going to hear about this show from co-workers tomorrow...
The Granny’s will become like the Oscar’s. No one will watch it because it’s become so trashy
“That is how I also see Grammy Awards viewers; ,,,”
I had to laugh, because my husband tried to get me to watch last night because he likes Adele. I don’t think I have ever watched the grammy’s in my life and I am glad I didn’t this time!! I have nothing agaianst Adele, but no one is worth watching that anti-christian crowd of self important egos, and I’m glad I abstained.
I would like to see this skank mock ISLAM and see how far she gets before they lop of her brainless head.
Double dog dare you, you illigitimate gutter ho.
No Mohamhed skit, no balls. Shut her down.
The Church did not survive 2000 years to be undone by Nicki Minaj. It is a testament to the strength and endurance of the Church that no-talent hacks use it for self-promotion.
because muslims fight back a little more bloodier than christians do. you think these spineless individuals would put a target on their heads like this? ...not in a million years...
dumping on christians?....
eh...again? how brave and ‘shocking’ is that
Stand up there and take a dump on a Koran and I’ll take notice
Amen!
And let us pray for the conversion and salvation of such people.
Because they don't want to be killed.
It was hateful and talentless. On twitter everyone hated it. Is there anything the Grammys won’t show? I mean, they give Grammys for gospel music. Where is the limit?
Also, Roman Zolanski? What, did Polanski rape her too?
Actually, I will disagree with you. I am most definitely Not a Katy perry fan. Yet I had to give her a bravo last night. She was singing a song (that I didn’t know) about a breakup and how he couldn’t take everything away from her.
Apparently her ex, russell brand, who has written every detail of his drug and sex soaked life before he met her already, is intending to write another book, withevery detail of her private life in it.
So first he broke her heart, then he destroys her privacy? She is a child from a conservative family in CA I think. All she has left is her fame to fight back with, so I gave her props for a song with meaning, as was Taylor swift’s.
Ahhhh....Katie Perry!
That little number she started off with is about sex with an alien. “Take me” “infect me with your poison”
Fortunately...everyone was spared Kanye West’s intro (as the alien) to that awful song.
The rest of Katies song was about being angry with her hubby.
Lovely stuff.
Last year she sang quite a nice tribute to him.
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