Well done.

Nicki Minaj went from being our favourite new artist, and great credible new rap star, to the most irritating woman in pop. Really quickly. Her second album, whilst packed full of decent and listenable tunes, was so generic, pandering and free of the hyperactive clever-clever rhythms and rhymes that made us fall for her in the first place, that we handed in our fan membership and abandoned ship for good.

Well maybe we were too hasty because the lead single from the rerelease of her second album (yes, really) is a bizarre, structurally odd, electro hip hop banger replete with her best video since "Super Bass". So maybe all is not lost. Maybe she can reign it back in. We'll see. But for now we quite enjoy this.