Nicki Minaj's bizarre Grammy performance

Nicki Minaj's bizarre Grammy performance

Nicki Minaj's bizarre Grammy performance, Nicki Minaj Snubbed At Grammys, Patterns Performance After Horror Film, 54th Annual Grammy Awards: Nicki Minaj's Multiple Personalities, Nicki Minaj's big Grammy night didn't have a happy ending like her "Moment 4 Life" fairytale video. Minaj had a breakout year in 2011, setting fashion trends, appearing on numerous top 40 hits and scoring a platinum selling debut, but those accomplishments failed to yield her any trophies for any of her four nominations at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.

But the competition was tough. Minaj was up for Best New Artist, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Album, honors she lost to Bon Iver, Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Watch The Throne" single "Otis" and West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" album.

Minaj shared a nomination with Rihanna as a featured artist on the Barbados-born singer's Album Of The Year contender "Loud."

But Minaj didn't go home unnoticed. In Lady Gaga-like fashion, the Trinidadian-born rapper-singer generated the most attention during the night's red carpet arrivals, showing up in a crimson medieval-styled hooded cape, arm-and-arm with a man dressed as a pope.

Minaj's getup didn't make sense until she performed near the end of the awards show.

In arguably one of the strangest Grammy sets ever, Minaj's theatrical production choreographed by Gaga's former creative director Laurieann Gibson borrowed its theme from the 1973 horror film "The Exorcist." Like the movie's lead character Regan MacNeil, portrayed by Linda Blair, Minaj's on stage character is possessed by a demon.

In the opening scene, Minaj appears in a confessional booth, growling at the priest. The show detours to a mini-movie in which a priest arrives to her home to perform an exorcism. When the minister meets Minaj's character in her bedroom, the rapper introduces him to her alter-ego Roman.

The show intensifies when Minaj returns to the stage, rapping her new song "Roman's Holiday" while strapped to a torture chamber table. After breaking loose from the contraption, the "Pink Friday" rapper joins center stage her dancers dressed in hooded monk costumes.

By show's end, Minaj is laying on her back, levitating above the stage, seemingly a part of some sort of ritualistic ceremony.

The shock show was cluttered and focused too much on theatrics than selling the audience on the new song. It will be interesting to see how it impacts interest in Minaj's sophomore album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," due out in April.

via: yahoo