New Video: Nicki Minaj – ‘Starships’ (HQ UPDATE)

Published: Thursday 26th Apr 2012 by Rashad

Despite watching the single skyrocket to top 10 charts everywhere over the past weeks, Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Starships’ has yet to fully launch on the visual tip…until now.

Finally fulfilling the wishes of Barbz and Ken Barbz everywhere, the clip, which was said to be ‘too saucy for TV’ by Minaj herself, has arrived for viewing pleasure.

Is it too late or will this be just the trick to launch the track to #1? You decide…

 

The clip serves as an ode to the rap kaleidoscope herself with its vibrant use of color.  Certainly matching the summertime vibe of the tune, ‘Starships’ is like ‘Super Bass’ on speed.  With the song already soaring to Billboard’s top 10, yours truly didn’t expect much from its accompany clip given how much later it premiered after the song.  But, yet again, Miss Minaj pleasantly surprises.

While not epic or even Nicki’s best, it certainly suit her and the song and works as a fair representation of such.  Probably would’ve helped ‘Roman Reloaded’ much more if this dropped..umm..two weeks ago.
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  1. Peter Griffin April 26, 2012

    ahhhhhhh finally!

  2. Kevin April 26, 2012

    GHETTO video quality.

  3. Uhh Okaii April 26, 2012

    video sucked..i watched the premiere in the middle of the video cause i was flippin through channels..it sucks

  4. THE GREAT LACEFRONCE. April 26, 2012

    Lol flop h**!!!!! Who cares? Her album is tanking& shes STRUGGLING for relevancy.

    RIhanna is the only legend & great artist of this generation . Look what shes done to FLOPonces career. The H** is completely WASHED ,!!!:)

  5. troll barbie April 26, 2012

    wtf im i watching #disappointing
    troll barbie

  6. AnnieXOIV April 26, 2012

    so you guys couldn’t just wait til the video was officially released online? not here for this terrible quality. do better, TGJ.

  7. Onyx April 26, 2012

    I know they would make her body looks fierce but everybody saw the pictures of her filming this video so……………….no shades, i love Nicki.

  8. CHYNA April 26, 2012

    Sam? Didn’t I tell your b**** ass to stop uploading these videos that people record from their pbone? You are so pressed!!

  9. Os April 26, 2012

    man you f-cking Roaches are always the first on nicki minaj post anything to do with her,it got to s-ck to be yall to be eating sleeping living hate every f-cking day,sigh like the vid waiting to see it on vevo.

  10. AMAZINJALEN April 26, 2012

    I’m #TeamMinaj, but I was kinda too hyped up for this video and was let down. 🙁

  11. Payola April 26, 2012

    No.. I like Starships but this video like I said was a Massive Attack pt 2…#NoShade

  12. KASEY JR. April 26, 2012

    As long as this video took to release, it was expecting to see some actual motherfucking starships in the sky. I mean come on now, 2 months for this?

  13. kingphoenix April 26, 2012

    This is so sad….not only is the video horrid, but the fact that she had to hurry up and put it out before WHB premiered is just so…..desperate.

  14. Ummok April 26, 2012

    I’m mad that we waited this long for this video tbqh it wasn’t even all that.. I like it but it was not worth the wait.

  15. MaZ April 26, 2012

    As good as a slovenian porno movie!

  16. prettigurlrockD April 26, 2012

    Massive attack video was actually better than this white-washed song. The video mehhhhh. Nicki needs to get rid of that horrid green hair. She looks so dumb. Video is a whatever to me. Would watch it in HQ next time to see if it changes my feelings but I doubt it. I also know the barb voultures will eat this to shreds tho. They go hard for their schizo princess.

    LACEFRONCE you clearly are a waste of space. Rhitard is no where near a legend of this generation. She has a good marketing team, cute looks, and a strong label backing her. The talent is null and void so shut the f*** up!

  17. FAME FLOPPED N TEAM BREEZY ARE SCUZZY H*** April 26, 2012

    THAT WAS WHACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!

  18. JAA April 26, 2012

    seriously

  19. Nahjee April 26, 2012

    Yea I agree with everybody eles the video had a little bit to much going on kinda cheap looking I was getting confuse a little to. I’m not a nicki fan I’m a nicki supporter

    This is a over hype video to the T

  20. KAT DELUNA FAN April 26, 2012

    I loved it
    Waitinf for the HQ

    Oh those hating goats appears on other talented singers to hate.

    Dont act like we are not saying goatssie trying tto sabotage Nicki & Rita with all those snippet or leaks smh ➡

  21. latifa April 26, 2012

    kinda like mary j blige everything video meets superbass
    lmao at ghetto yellin in the background

  22. RihannaNavy April 26, 2012

    Nicki is such a total copy cat
    this was like Only Girl Part 2! except Only Girl video is way better then this!

  23. BLACK MADONNA April 26, 2012

    LUV IT!!! YEESSSSSS NICKI

  24. ashgino@gmail.com April 26, 2012

    hands down, move over Beyonce, mover over Rihanna………..Nicki Minaj is the baddest chick in the game!
    That body aint nuthin to play around with, she is on one!

  25. Dope or nope April 26, 2012

    NOPE! I have to I didn’t expect this from nicki I was expecting to see starships flying everywhere. Not here danceing by a volcano with fire and wired looking men dancing all over the place. NO I’m not feeling it at all

    I was feeling her big B*** but not the video

  26. prettigurlrockD April 26, 2012

    What’s wrong with nick? This hasn’t been a good era for her. So not here for this buffoonery. Beam me up scotty was still good though.

  27. Justathought (Azealia Banks is here…) April 26, 2012

    When are people gonna learn that everything dealing with her is ALWAYS over hyped…come on now.

  28. prettigurlrockD April 26, 2012

    @ashgino please don’t tell me you actually said that…

  29. @Nyy94 April 26, 2012

    TBH I have a soft spot for Nicki and I have remained a mild to hardcore fan but I keep expecting her to do better and create high quality classy visuals but I remain disappointed, not only did she rock the not so nice green hair in the BITT video but she done it again in this, not to mention the fact her assets are hanging out everywhere in this video, It just becomes abit to much, This video will be forgotten soon, Nicki once again you let me down, naive to think you could evolve to you potential greatness!

  30. Theman April 26, 2012

    What was this?

  31. Mike April 26, 2012

    I love U nicki with all my heart but I could have done without this video Realtalk smh. I like you beez in the trap video a little better
    A lot of people over hype this on twitter & Facebook saying this is gonna be great smh NO I can’t deal. People saying it reminds ther of massive attack I can say that to a little ugh

  32. QueenSize April 26, 2012

    Aaaaawwww Nicki. You let your fans down. The Barbz cry tears of a clown for a clown.

  33. J April 26, 2012

    Why am I like the only person in the world that loves this video? Lol

    I still hate this song though.

  34. meisha April 26, 2012

    OMG I dare u assholes compare here to LilKim! Queen of what she tries to sing more than she rap she is a c class Singer. The only reason she say she a rapper because the stats are easier to beat there are way less femcees than r n b singers! This album is trash take it back to the drawing board! Keep on dropping videos and you will owe ymcmb more that what u made off this terrible album! I’m ashamed of the legends lowering their standards to work with her to make a quick dollar smdh! Bye

  35. kingphoenix April 26, 2012

    @Matthew Deluna-sional

    Girl really you need to resit your self over and over again for that comment.

  36. classic April 26, 2012

    i want to know who paid for this wack video

  37. Richnblack11(Beyonce keep em mad) April 26, 2012

    THIS WAS JUST HORRID , NICKI F IS ON YOUR BISCUIT.LOL

  38. lifeeh April 26, 2012

    I was LOL’ing when they showed those body shots………… SMH!!!!

  39. KAT DELUNA FAN April 26, 2012

    The kid loves me
    I love the kids too

  40. kc36 April 26, 2012

    Too little too late. Not worth nothing. Somebody messed her promo and album up big time .

  41. 10singles April 26, 2012

    Damn WTF did i just watch…

  42. nickiminaj April 26, 2012

    YALL MAD CAUSE UR FAV AINT DOIN S*** STOP HATIN ON HER SHE DOIN HER AN YALL BE KILLIN ME SAYIN I WAS A NICKI MINAJ FAN DATS SOME BS YALL TRYIN TO MAKE LIL KIM FEEL GOOD LOVE DA SONG AN VIDEO HATERS

  43. Kevo #TeamKimmyBlanco April 26, 2012

    Basic video for a Basic b****…Sits back and wait for Where Have You Been….RiRi about to show this b**** how to make a Pop Video…

  44. itsme April 26, 2012

    This was so WACK! WOW!….LOOOOL This gave me the laugh I needed for the night…lol

  45. mike April 26, 2012

    IM SORRY

    BUT WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HER RIDICULOUSLY OBVIOUS BOOB JOB???

  46. commanderofthedancefloor April 26, 2012

    move over beyonce, move over rihanna???? wth are you smoking on to honestly believe that??? lmfao

    its a cute video nothing grand or too special but its cute idk why it took so long to put out because this wasnt something like a run the world, born this way or we found love! im just saying!!

  47. JER April 26, 2012

    HOT. Excuse Nicki Minaj for not putting out boring R&B/Hip-hop s*** like every other black b****. Tired ass fake soul R&B radio. WOW another faux soul BeYAWnce song wow CLAP CLAP. Wow another male R&B singer taking his shirt off in a video. WOW another strangerbitch with half a hit. Tired ass R&B these days. Nicki Minaj is the future. The dance songs on Roman Reloaded slay everything on R&B radio so you hatin black ass niggros can get over it. Night f***** lookin bastards go see a movie and have all the seats

  48. honeydip April 26, 2012

    FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @HONEY_DIP11 I FOLLOW BACK!

  49. social1 April 26, 2012

    We waited for “THAT”?! LAME!!!!!

  50. RDK April 26, 2012

    MIKE because it,s all in your head you d-mn f-ck,anyways love the video and sam the real video is on Vevo know you can rip it now.

  51. 디마 April 27, 2012

    정말 좋지 않다

  52. Dev April 27, 2012

    I hadn’t listened to this song till today and have come to the conclusion that it is rubbish, and so is the video. Actually, i’ll go as far to say that its dire, awful and dreadful. Why!? i hear you cry!!! because this chick is still saying that she is hip/hop and was offended when she was told she is pop. Does she not listen to her own records?
    She is a black Katie Price, i could see Katie doing this and not sounding much different or looking much different if she had come from the tanning salon.

  53. Dev April 27, 2012

    @JER no instead she put out another pop song like every other **** B****, the difference is she’s just a black girl doing it. What a stupid point. This song is a generic pop song so what do you hear thats so different about it?

  54. yasssss April 27, 2012

    LOVE IT

  55. Saetana April 27, 2012

    The song is catchy enough but that video is dire. A hot mess and her fake ass looks ridiculous, totally out of proportion to her size, as do that pair of footballs stuck to her chest. Superbass had a great video, this isn’t even an also ran. She will have to do better than this on the visual front in the future, this really was not worth waiting for at all. I cannot understand why she goes mad about being called a pop artist when this song has only a tiny rap and is mostly pop pap.

  56. Sally Sue April 27, 2012

    My cat: [img]www.mysite.com/cat.jpg[/img] looks like Niki

  57. mr.m April 27, 2012

    FLOP N****

  58. virtuoso intellect April 27, 2012

    worst video of 2012 thus far .. i couldnt even make it to the end and to think this is her 1st single

  59. DS April 27, 2012

    Glad I just watched the preview. It has nothing to do with starships!!

  60. YOOSONDALOOSE April 27, 2012

    Okay… BUT NOT WORTH THE HYPE.

  61. aishaaguilerakeys April 27, 2012

    The vid’s visually interesting, her enhanced body parts are scary, and the song sux.

  62. kimberly April 27, 2012

    You know what I love THE GREATLACEFFRONTS, I always read her comments and just laugh, there is something about this persons typing that just makes me laugh but anyway,
    RIHANNANAVY why is it that somebody’s video is always looking like a part 2 of rihanna’s or song sound the same. I would suggest you go back to the 80’s and 90’s and watch all of the videos released and come back and watch all of rihanna’s and you will see many similarities. You may not know about the things this chick jackup over the years, if she is the only one you watch and know since your standards are so low. or watch some dvd’s too. stupid b**** as if her videos are so epic….
    NYY94… YOU WILL ALWAYS GET DISAPPOINTED WHEN YOU BECOME A FAN OF A NO TALENT OR SOMEONE WHO THINKS THEY KNOW EVERYTHING. JUST LIKE THE NAVY AND THE PERFORMANCES AND WIG CHANGING. LIKE BRITNEY AND HER LIPSYNCING ASS. DON’T EXPECT IMPROVEMENT OR PERFECTION.

    Anywayz, What a waste of a trip to miami to shoot this messy video. I hate it. I never really hate a video because every artist has a theme and direction, but this one was just yuk, and that body of niki was a turn off, considering that she cannot move her body. what was the point of thge bathing suite. all of the barbz, what was the point of this outfit with glitter hiding all her cellulite. disgusting

  63. ASAP (As Sincere As Possible) April 27, 2012

    I’m not even a Nicki fan, let alone a stan, but I think this video was great. I liked the colors and I thought it was interesting and playful. I wouldn’t prefer a generic party video tbh and I like that it has too much going on, even though I understand why some people think it’s tacky,

  64. stopthemadness April 27, 2012

    Don’t believe the hype. The video wasn’t what i expected. I thought it was gonna be on some Janet “Feedback” or MJ “Scream” type of space theme. But, uhhh…. ok. It was mediocre.

  65. POP ROYALTY ( RUDE BOY) April 27, 2012

    i liked it. colorful , beautiful , and actually it is good as it go well with what the song is talking about.

    3.5/5 !!! and TBH , it is not up to the pre-release hype.

    hope she’s thinking about releasing vids for her pop songs from her poppish album , like Mvs for ” whip it” and “beautiful sinner” , IMO , it will heal what happened in this era so far.
    and ” too sausy” ?!!

  66. Jessica April 27, 2012

    Well that’s about 4 minutes of my life that I will never get back. First let’s talk about the lyrics. They aren’t even mediocre l… I would much rather listen to Dr.suess as opposed to this garbage. And the video? She’s like the ghetto version of Katy perry. Blue hair, alien ? Really that’s the best you could do? I felt like you would have to be on some type of serious drug like acid in order to think this video was okay. She never needs to try and dance, she can barely walk on beat… And realistically idk what type of photo shop job they did on this but she could be endorsed by adobe. This is not hip hop… It’s barely pop and if it wasn’t for the production team that does the beats for all of young money, the only person who would actually be considered an artist would be Drake.

  67. KAT DELUNA FAN April 27, 2012

    LOVE IT AMAZING VIDEO

  68. Saleem April 27, 2012

    @ashgino@gmail.com how dear you say mover over BEyonce the world most beautiful in THE WORLD MUST I REMIND YOU NICKI CANT EVEN HOLD A CANDLE TOO BEYONCE OR RI RI … THIS VIDEO WAS SO STUPID AND IT DIDNT EVEN MATCH THE SONG AND HER TIME IS UP SHE IS TRYING EVERYTHING IN HER POWER TOO KEEP UP AND ITS GOING TOO TAKE MORE THAN A FAT ASS AND A GREEN WIG TOO DO SO FOR THIS ALBUM ALL THE VIDEOS SUCK SO FAR THEY LOOK THROWN TOGETHER COME ON NOW PPL GET IT TOGETHER … I SEEN HER IN CONCERT TWICE AND I WAS PISSED I WASTED MY MONEY I SEEN BEYONCE IN CONCERT 3 TIMES AND IM GOING BACK AND GOING TOO PAY WELL OVER $1000.00 TOO JUST SEE HER AGAIN…THE ONLY THING SHE IS GOOD AT IS STEALING LIL KIM STYLE AND DELETING HER DAMN TWITTER SHE IS A DRAMA QUEEN… OH YEA BEYONCE 4 JUST SOLD ANOTHER 1000,000 COPIES AND LOVE ON TOP STILL NUMBER 1 …. MUST I ASK? WERE IS NICKI BOSS AT OH YEA BABY ..THEY GOT BABY MONEY KEEP IT REAL WITH N***** THAT DONT HAVE MY LADY MONEY “JAY-Z IN H.A.M FEAT KANYE WEST “

  69. JoArmy April 27, 2012

    dis video deserve much more dancing but it was ok….i think her ass held her back a bit tho….10lbs of fakeness

  70. BitchIcantevenspellwelfare April 27, 2012

    She’s pretty…. that’s all I got.

  71. NICK April 27, 2012

    she looks so good, yes NICKI!!!!!!!! I like it-cute cute-

  72. Aunt Jackie April 27, 2012

    She was really cute in it, but that B*** really messed it up. She needs to get rid of that thing now that she’s a pop star. It’s way too big and gross. She looks great–then all of a sudden she turns around and is fat. It makes NO sense!

  73. itsme April 27, 2012

    This starSHITS video was better in LOW QUALITY…now that it is HQ you can really see how WACK the video is and how FAKE her body is…u can see lumps and dents all over her body…LIPO and ASS SHOTS all day…

    starSHITS are meant to flyyyyy!

  74. LAX April 27, 2012

    WOW!!!! I think her Beez in the Trap Video Was Better…..than this…the video was nice but it didn’t go with the song. i expected more with such a very long wait and i was let down but aleast im enjoying her album though….

  75. JER IS MAD April 27, 2012

    JER is mad nobody is worshiping and stanning for Onigglette and Pink FLOPday: Roman ReBLOATED. He mad, yall. DEAL SISSY!

    Ki.

  76. R2D2 April 27, 2012

    KIMBERLY nicki body is a turn off to you and you are a kim fan lock your bias mouth,anyways nicki looks good to me love the vid keep doing you nicki.

  77. MISHKA April 27, 2012

    Well, that’s one expensive hot mess., Onika.

    I had great expectations on ‘Right by my side” but after watching this, i guess i have to prepare myself for the worst.

  78. The Zolonski Trap April 27, 2012

    WOW! You guys talk about TGJ being d*** riders but you guys are the most active haterz know to many..there’s nothing wrong with the video, it’s a dance song and everything fits the dance move, from the fist pumps to the outfits to the twirls and dance moves…it’s like she’s not gonna go out there and “couchie” pop to a song singing “starships are meant to fly”!!!! And you guys pick the most dumb ass reasons for not liking the video, as a matter of fact, ya’ll don’t even say nothing! “wtf the f*** am i watching” “this is disgusting” “she looks ridiculous” you know what you were watching when you started watching her, the only disgusting thing is your hatin’ ass life and the only ridiculous thing is you comments..i mean ya’ll probably but more effort and hatin’ into the video then HER actually making it!!

    but, i like this video! Nicki the outfits are hot, the wigs are hot, and the little twirls and stuff are MUCH nedded! you did ya thing and look like you had fun! what other b**** shot a music video on the the islands of wakikiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!! AHA!!!

  79. The Zolonski P*** April 27, 2012

    @The Zolonski Trap I’m so over your young, stanning ass. You and these long ass dissertations, girl. For what? When are you going to do something worthwhile with your life other than stan for Nicki Minaj? Is that what your life has come to, bew? Stanning for floppage? All that extra novel writing is unnecessary, hon. I just left the IMAX theater. They have tons of seats for you. My treat 😉

  80. VFB April 27, 2012

    Ummmm NO NICKI NO… NOW I SEE WHY SHE WENT FROM RAP TO POP, BECAUSE SHE COULD NEVER SELL RAP, BUT POP SHE FITS IT PERFECTLY YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE TALENTED OR A VOICE, JUST GOOD AT BE A CHARACTER OR DO SOMETHING OUTRAGES.

  81. The Zolonski Trap April 28, 2012

    @THEZOLONSKIPHAG…please learn what a stan is..i’m not obsessing, i’m supporting. i have my likes, loves, dislikes and hates about Nicki Minaj. i like the lace front wigs she’s been wearing latley, i love when she raps in a crazy animated style, i dislike when she dances i HATE when she talks in that soft voice sometimes. a stan would LOOOOVE everything about Nicki Minaj….please look up the definition then try to relate me..she just hasn’t did anything to my dislikes or hate recently soo…and i have a life, too vad you don’t cause your STUCK on what i’m doing with mine…and floppage wouldn’t break records like it’s going out of style (just sayin)…and there’s many space on the sidewalks because you don’t deserve stadium, arena, or movie thater seats. not even BUS! seats. so sit on the sidewalk….goodbye

  82. VA STAND UP!! April 28, 2012

    The video was HORRIBLE! Just a hot ghetto, fake ass, s***** lace front mess! Its worst than the actual song. It looked low budget as hell! I guess Baby is out of money after he spent so much of it buying Lil Waynes horrible ass album. SMFH!

    Anyone who likes this fuckery is just an ass kisser! What was the point of evening releasing this piece of garbage 6 months after the song came out? All she did was walk around in a bikini attempting to shake her big stiff ass embarrassing herself! SMH. I can’t wait till this gimmick is up because it’s obvious the real Nicki is never coming back!

  83. ashley April 28, 2012

    nicki’s career is soooooooooooo washed..she aint even a rapper.. every time she win an award she always tryna big up queens, yet she sold out on em..b**** u aint hard, neither are u in da trap..b**** never sold blow in her life..she thinks by doing 8937837 pop songs then do by doing like 1 rap song that she can earn respect in the hip hop community again..she was never respected as a rapper anyhow..she’s just a clown/entertainer who ppl like LOOKING at rather than HEARING..her music sucks! dont ever compare her to lil kim cus kim is a legendary/iconic female RAP MC! kim the queen of HIP HOP! not POP! nicki a sell out & pop sells..her album is soooooo trash! Notorious kim was a real hip hop album & it did well & she wasnt having the problems nicki havin, tryna sell out then cryin when her s*** aint sellin then actin childish dissin her fans & running off of twitter and faking a panic attack..b**** is immature & her music is mad garbage..so now u katy perry? b**** FOH & f*** who ever else thinks this is hot..only her Caucasian fans diggin this s***(no disrespect)..but nicki only caters to the white folks..*hint hint* ITS WHERE THE MONEY’S AT..B**** A SELL OUT! u a disgrace to the hip hop community..u can’t even say her name and hip hop in 1 sentence..smh!! this shits wack & u look horrible! look like a f***** long crooked nosed troll..fake ass b****! enjoy ur 15 mins of fame u POP sell out b****!

  84. WEEZY April 29, 2012

    FOR SOME ONE WHO CLAIMED SHE WASNT GOIN TO BE SELLING S**…SURE HAS BEEN SERVING IT A LOT ON A BIG PLATTER…SONG IS GARBAGE…N VIDEO IS TRASH…SOMEONE PLEASE SHOW MS MINAJ TO THE LOCAL DUMPSTER!!!!

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