Cyndi Lauper says she has no regrets about working with Nicki Minaj, despite their sharply different political positions.
The Pop veteran addressed Minaj’s increasingly public support for Donald Trump while discussing the rapper’s use of ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ on ‘Pink Friday Girls.’
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Asked whether she now felt differently about clearing the sample, Lauper told The Guardian:
“No. First of all, I don’t believe in cancellation.”
The singer explained that her signature hit has always represented women’s right to freedom and joy. Minaj’s present-day political alignment does not alter that message for her.
“I still don’t think you cancel people, because otherwise there’s no room for discussion.”
She added: “If you want people to listen to you, you need to listen to people.”
Minaj sampled Lauper’s 1983 classic on the ‘Pink Friday 2’ fan favorite. The pair later performed the track together during the rapper’s record-setting world tour.
The comments arrive after Trump called Minaj his “favorite” during an Oval Office scene shown on ‘Million Dollar Pitch.’
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Go gurl! Glad more artists are doing this. Love is love! F u c k all democracks, left woke people.
Pedonika & MAGGOTs gonna get fcuked really really hard once Diaper “pdophile” Don is gone. Can’t wait…
Kahkahkah
And this snoozefest TGJ too… 👏🏻
What we all knew was coming has finally begun!!!!
We love a white woman 👩 who can stand up for what’s right !!!! When the black community continues to destroy themselves voting 🗳️ blue !!!! Vote 🗳️ Red like Nicki Minaj said !!!!
She going down defending pe do phile ra pists just like Vivek Ramasamy & JD Vance 😉
They are panicking… Pedonika and MAGA are becoming America’s public enemy #1..
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“Minaj sampled Lauper’s 1983 classic on Pink Friday 2″… so the originality budget really ran out decades ago huh? Onika Ramasamy stays out here recycling other people’s eras like it’s a creative strategy. And now a washed-up granny has to play defense because the royalties need protecting.
Let’s not pretend this is some noble free-speech or cancel-culture battle it’s money, plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
Clock it..
BREAKING: President Trump must sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the B** by Dec. 11, a judge orders.
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MAGA is the dumbest f-cking group of people to ever exist. 💅
Democrats have a 10-point advantage over Republicans nationwide in voters’ choice in their own congressional district, according to a new poll conducted by SSRS. President Donald Trump’s approval rating sits at 33% among US adults, the Poll of Polls average shows, and cost-of-living concerns, including the economic fallout from the war with Iran, weigh heavily on many voters’ minds.
But the red makeup of this year’s Senate map should not be underestimated.
This evil fake c u nt belongs in The Hague with her Pdfile In Chief …
Aunt Cyndi is defending no one but her pockets lol
Oldnika is toast… big time!
MAGA WAS BORN WHEN A CON MAN FOUND AN AUDIENCE OF FOOLS!
Islm is cancelled
Imagine how miserable you need to be to write 16 comments as 16 different people just to get ur dmb opinion out yet u r a mslm arb gay man which is the most dmb thing you can be a n planet earth 🌍