Nicki Minaj - āSuper Bassā
If āTeenage Dreamā is sitting in the passenger seat of the car staring at his jawline with a quiet smile, āSuper Bassā is zooming down the highway in your pink Aventador, driving and cackling as your man looks at you. There are love songs about the quiet and casual moments. There are love songs about the explosive and heartwrenching moments. And there are love songs like āSuper Bass.ā It is anything but quiet, but too light to be that punch to a gut. Itās about flying rather than floating, about a heartbeat that skips rather than pounds. Your heartbeat is running away because he is charmed by your laugh, your confidence, your attitude, your everything. āSuper Bassā is about leaping off a cliff but making that decision to leap yourself. āSuper Bassā is about losing control after making the decision to fall deeply.
Compared to āMonster,ā few words have been written about āSuper Bass.ā Itās silly: āSuper Bassā is the most Nicki Minaj track that I can think of on a lot of levels. Popularity wise, āAnacondaā may have charted higher, but āSuper Bassā went 8x platinum. (If youāre wondering what that means, by comparison, āCall Me Maybeā also went 8x platinum and āFancyā has gone 4x platinum so far.) It had longevity, mass and international appeal, and a slew of memes involving cute kids rapping on Ellen. āSuper Bassā is the promise of Nicki Minaj as a global pop star fulfilled.
Certifications, popularity, and sales aside, itās also the quintessential Nicki Minaj track because literally no one else could sound like this. āSuper Bassā may not be your favorite Nicki Minaj song or your favorite version of Nicki Minaj, but itās a perfect pop song and itās a pop song that only Nicki Minaj could make. Sure, she raps and she sings, but this is so full of Nicki Minaj because of the details. The way that her voice drops when she says āexcuse me, youāre a hell of a guy!ā The sighing relatability of āYou know I really got a thing for American guys!ā The utter swagger of āSomebody please tell him who the eff I is!ā And that way that final ābassā in the bridge zooms off for the very last time! āSuper Bassā is so fucking Nicki.
When Roman Reloaded came out, I complained that the record didnāt fulfill the promise of āSuper Bass.ā What I meant is that āSuper Bassā is so tough, so hard, and so unapologetically feminine. If we talk about how Nicki Minaj actively pushes outward on the boundaries of hip-hop, we canāt not talk about āSuper Bass,ā which is still, the perfect blend of tough raps and the girliest girl. Nicki Minaj wants you to know that you can be tough and smart and strong and liking pink does not negate any of that. Whereas Roman Reloaded is, on surface level, split into almost distinct halves of rap and pop, masculine and feminine, āSuper Bassā is a perfect three and a half minute blend of both.
Anyone who doesnāt put it in their top 5 Nicki Minaj songs is either lying to you or to themselves.
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