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"Automatic"
Song

"Automatic" is a song by Trinidadian-American recording artist Nicki Minaj from her second studio album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012). The song was written by Minaj, Nadir Khayat, Jimmy Thornfeldt, Geraldo Sandell while production was handled by RedOne and Jimmy Joker. Musically, "Automatic" is a dance-pop song.

The song received generally mixed reviews from music critics, with some calling the song a "generic" pop song, while some reviewers felt like the song sounded like Lady Gaga's 2011 song, Highway Unicorn (Road To Love). [1] Due to digital sales from the album, the song charted in the United Kingdom during the week after the album's release.

Background

In an interview following the premiere, Minaj told Seacrest, "I've never had this much fun recording music in my life. My first album I was very guarded. I felt like I was making music to please everyone else. I had to be politically correct, but this album I am just creating music, and it there's such a big difference. Literally in the studio we were cracking up laughing, having fun, and enjoying ourselves. The music itself you're going to get every side that I've ever shown and then a little bit extra. I've tried to make it very, very balanced, because I don't ever want to be boxed in, and that's always what drives me. So I made a very diverse album." She added that with her first album, she "was a too open Nicki Minaj. It felt more to me like a diary, the songs were more introspective and stuff like that...with this particular album I felt that it was time to give people a moment to enjoy the lyrics, and enjoy the beats, and enjoy the voices. When I was going to do my first album people would say, 'What is she going to talk about? Is she just going to talk about sex?' So I made it my business to make an album that did not talk about sex at all. I made it my business to make an album that wasn't a vulgar album, because [on] my mix tapes I was very, very...outlandish on my mix tapes. With this album I'm going back to not necessarily to that sound, but that feeling. The feeling of 'I don't care what you think!' That's what it is."[2]

Composition

"Automatic" is an electropop, europop and dance-pop song which is about the automatic way a body moves on the dance floor. "I can't control the way I'm moving hips, bet you never ever seen it like this, I'm a monster on the floor I can't quit," she sings. The song also references one of Nicki Minaj's older songs, "Girls Fall Like Dominoes" in the lyric, "falling like a domino".[3] [4]

Critical reception

"Automatic" received mostly mixed reviews. Andrew Hampp of Billboard gave the song a positive review, but felt the song was too similar to the JoJo song "Disaster".[5] Slant Magazine editor Matthew Cole gave the song a negative review, calling it "filler".[6] Andy Gill of The Independent gave the song a very positive review, and labeled it as a standout track.[7] BBC's Al Fox gave the song a positive review, while comparing it to a fellow Minaj song "Your Love"[8]. Slant Magazine stated that the song "sounds like it was written for Demi Lovato."[9]

Chart performance

Chart (2012) Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[10] 119

References

  1. ^ http://popdust.com/2012/03/29/nicki-minaj-roman-reloaded-automatic-new-leak-review/
  2. ^ "WORLD PREMIERE: Listen To Nicki Minaj's New Single 'Starships' [AUDIO] | Ryan Seacrest - The official entertainment news site of American Idol host and American Top 40 on air radio personality!". Ryan Seacrest. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
  3. ^ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=25768
  4. ^ http://popdust.com/2012/03/29/nicki-minaj-roman-reloaded-automatic-new-leak-review/
  5. ^ Hampp, Andrew (March 29, 2012). "Nicki Minaj, 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded': Track-By-Track Review". Billboard (magazine). Rovi. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  6. ^ Cole, Matthew (April 2, 2012). "Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded". Slant Magazine. Slant Magazine. Retrieved May 14, 2012. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 12 (help)
  7. ^ Gill, Andy (April 6, 2012). "Album: Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday Roman Reloaded (Island)". The Independent. The Independent UK. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  8. ^ Fox, Al (April 3, 2012). "Review of Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Roman Reloaded". BBC Music. BBC. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
  9. ^ http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-roman-reloaded/2752
  10. ^ "CHART LOG UK: NEW ENTRIES UPDATE". UK Singles Chart. April 14, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
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