{"id":482132,"date":"2019-02-12T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=793595"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:41:02","slug":"hear-avril-lavigne-nicki-minaj-prove-haters-wrong-on-dumb-blonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-avril-lavigne-nicki-minaj-prove-haters-wrong-on-dumb-blonde\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Avril Lavigne, Nicki Minaj Prove Haters Wrong on \u2018Dumb Blonde\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/avril-and-nicki-minaj-dumb-blonde.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/avril-lavigne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avril-lavigne\" data-tag=\"avril-lavigne\">Avril Lavigne<\/a> has recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nicki-minaj\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicki-minaj\" data-tag=\"nicki-minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> for the power pop kiss-off \u201cDumb Blonde.\u201d Lavigne\u2019s sixth album,\u00a0<em>Head Above Water,<\/em> will be released on February 15th.<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cDumb Blonde,\u201d Lavigne reflects on the idea that people might think she\u2019s not as smart as she is based on the way she looks. \u201cI\u2019m a babe\/I\u2019m a boss\/And I\u2019m makin\u2019 this money,\u201d she sings on the pre-chorus. \u201cI can flip like a switch and I cut like a blade.\u201d When Minaj joins for her guest verse, she reinforces Lavigne\u2019s empowerment while referencing her album,\u00a0<em>The Pinkprint,<\/em> and the Remy Ma diss track, \u201cNo Frauds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the song\u2019s release, Minaj <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtwfnoSHJuB\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that she\u2019s long been a huge fan of Lavigne\u2019s music. \u201cIf you know me, you know how long I\u2019ve been a fan of hers,\u201d she wrote in the caption of the single\u2019s art. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t tell me I wasn\u2019t hittin EVERY note on \u2018I\u2019m with you\u2019 in the shower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavigne similarly wrote about her fandom of Minaj: \u201cNicki is such a talented, strong woman and driving force,\u201d she shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtyhST_HIW8\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cI listen to \u2018Fly,\u2019 \u2018Starships\u2019 and \u2018Bed\u2019 all the time. Having her on the song is so special to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Head Above Water\u00a0<\/em>will be Lavigne\u2019s first album in six years. In the time since dropping her last full-length LP, she Canadian singer-songwriter has been battling Lyme disease, a struggle that she sings about on this album\u2019s title track.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/avril-lavigne-nicki-minaj-dumb-blonde-793595\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avril Lavigne has recruited Nicki Minaj for the power pop kiss-off \u201cDumb Blonde.\u201d Lavigne\u2019s sixth album,\u00a0Head Above Water, will be released on February 15th. On \u201cDumb Blonde,\u201d Lavigne reflects on the idea that people might think she\u2019s not as smart as she is based on the way she looks. \u201cI\u2019m a babe\/I\u2019m a boss\/And I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:56:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}