{"id":301,"date":"2014-08-31T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/08\/31\/fact-being-trapped-in-an-elevator-with-nicki-minaj-and-taylor-swift-would-probably-be-pretty-goddamn-delightful\/"},"modified":"2014-08-31T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T12:00:33","slug":"fact-being-trapped-in-an-elevator-with-nicki-minaj-and-taylor-swift-would-probably-be-pretty-goddamn-delightful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/08\/fact-being-trapped-in-an-elevator-with-nicki-minaj-and-taylor-swift-would-probably-be-pretty-goddamn-delightful\/","title":{"rendered":"#FACT: Being trapped in an elevator with Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift would probably be pretty goddamn delightful"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a lot of thoughts about both of these songs and videos–their sampling choices, the cultural expectations they embody and tweak and leverage, their wry commentary, the possibility that the cultural construct called “Nicki Minaj” is a day-glo voodoo space-witch mind-bender escaped from a DARPA project, while the cultural construct called “Taylor Swift” is a scrubbed alabaster voodoo space-witch mind-bender escaped from a DARPA project–but more than anything, the lasting impression is this:
\nNicki Minaj and Taylor Swift would be fun kids to be stuck in an airport lounge with during an indefinite flight delay. They are, at their core, Weird Al-style goofballs, and in a dire and inescapable emergency, goofballs are the best.
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