Nicki Minaj surprised fans at her recent concert in Brooklyn by bringing out pop icon Cyndi Lauper to perform ‘Pink Friday Girls’ – watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.
While performing at the Barclays Center on May 1 in Brooklyn, New York, Nicki Minaj performed a hit-filled setlist that contained fan favourites like ‘Pink Friday’, ‘Red Ruby Da Sleeze’, ‘Barbie World’, ‘Roman’s Revenge’ and more.
However, it was towards the end of her 31-song setlist that Nicki Minaj surprised fans by bringing out Cyndi Lauper. Together, they performed ‘Pink Friday Girls’, which featured on Minaj’s latest album, ‘Pink Friday 2’.
The original version of ‘Pink Friday Girls’ featured samples of the chorus of Lauper’s hit song ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’. After performing the track together, the two embraced and Nicki spoke of Lauper’s influence on her life and career.
After bowing down to Lauper, Minaj said: “Never in a million years did I think I’d be back here, rocking in New York with Cyndi Lauper.” The two then performed a short, impromptu rendition of ‘True Colours’, which Minaj recalled crying to when she had heard the song growing up.
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“Don’t wait ’til we’re not here to give us our flowers. God bless this woman, thank you Cyndi. We love you.”
Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday 2’ scored a four-star review from NME‘s Nick Levine upon its release in December last year. Levine wrote: “‘Pink Friday 2’ feels like a consolidation and refinement of everything Minaj can do – including dropping pop culture references that no other artist would think of. “Ducking ’em like Björk?” That’s surely a wink to the Icelandic musician’s infamous skirmish with a photographer. Thirteen years after ‘Pink Friday’, Nicki Minaj hasn’t lost her ability to catch us by surprise.”
Cydni Lauper is due to play an “exclusive” greatest hits show at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Wednesday, June 26 ahead of the New York singer-songwriter’s appearance at Glastonbury Festival that weekend. It’ll mark Lauper’s first UK solo concert in eight years.