This morning Nicki Minaj performed for the Good Morning America Summer Concert Series and Kevin and I had VIP wristbands. Since the beginning of the summer we’d joked about our desire to see her when she came, and we ended up making that happen. It was a bit of an adventure though. First off, Kevin is from Jersey—the real Jersey Shore, and he commutes an ungodly 2.5 hours each way to work, so I let him crash on our couch in BK so we could get up and go early. INTERN SLUUUUMBER PARRTYYY!! So we got up at 3:30, left by about 4:15, made the exceptionally long early morning trek to Lincoln Center, dropped our stuff off at work, and then taxi’d over to E 72nd and 5th Ave on the east side of the park to head in by 5:45.
Since we had the VIP wristbands, we were able to go in right away and didn’t have any lines to wait in at all, and we had an awesome view, like right in the front. So we just kind of stood around waiting. There were these two ladies next to us (and I use the term “ladies” extremely loosely in this case) that were super dressed up and stuff—nails done, hair done, everything done, they were fancy. But I’m pretty sure at some point in their lives, despite their cleavage, they’d been men. And at one point Kevin and I were whispering back and forth about some interview questions or something, and this woman behind me taps me and goes “yeah, they’re men.” Lol, and I was like, “…that is nootttt what we were talking about..but are you sure?” and I think they were. Which is fine, but this is key for later in the story.
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So at about 7:30 the band and dancers came out to start running through stuff, and then Nicki came out. It was pretty cool to see her interacting with her people and doing a sound check and stuff. Check out her outfit in the pictures—the boots she was wearing had the same print. She kind of looked like she was wrapped in wall paper. But OMG, her ass is ridiculous. And that’s all I’m gonna say about it because that is absolutely all that can be sad—RIDICULOUS! So after the sound check wrapped up, there was this guy that was in charge of like getting the crowd all hyped up, but he was corny and annoying. But at about 8:15 before Nicki came back out to actually perform, he was talking to the crowd and some people in the crowd were wearing off-the-wall wigs in true Nicki Minaj fashion, I guess someone even had like a cotton candy wig. So the guy yells out, “WHO DO YOU THINK HAS THE BEST WIG HERE?!?”
And Kevin, without the slightest ill intentions, points to the blonde-wigged tranny next to us and goes, “RIGHT HERE! RIIIIGHT HERE!!!” LMAO, when I tell you I died, I mean I legitimately.dropped.dead!! Lol some of the people around us looked on in horror, some snickered, some ”oooohhh’d” and the tranny ladies were NOT happy lol. I crack up into pieces every time I think about Kev yelling that out because he legit didn’t mean any harm by it, but was just being honest, and it was HEEEEE-LAR-IOUS!
Shortly after that Nicki and the GMA crew came out. And so did Nicki’s nipple. Complete Janet Jackson-esque nip slip…well, this was more of a Slip-N-Slide because her nipple was out for a substantial amount of time. And because it was taped live, viewers in the Eastern market saw it on tv—it was cleaned up before any other areas got that cut of the show. But it was pretty funny. They fixed her up with some double-stick tape after the first song to prevent it from happening again. Then there was the interview with Robin, and then two more songs. At the end of the show, before she left, Nicki came back out, and did like part of one more song. I’m not a big Nicki Minaj fan, so I don’t know the names of most of her songs. But the crowd was in love with her, and it was an electric atmosphere.
I had a lot of fun, but was tired after having to then find our way through the park and go to work. But it was a good morning.
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