‘American Idol’ season 12: Nicki Minaj, Devin Velez feud over elimination
Nicki Minaj is never someone to shy away from a potential “American Idol” feud … including with a contestant who was just on this past season. While this is not something that is altogether mean-spirited with all parties involved, it seems as though the “Super Bass” singer takes a little bit of an issue with the way that Devin Velez took issue to her treatment of him, Lazaro Arbos, and Burnell Taylor following their performance of “Can’t Help Myself” Wednesday night.
Let’s try to set the stage here. During some post-show interviews, Devin admitted that the guys were pretty terrible during the performance, but also suggested that Minaj did not have to take her criticism nearly so far as yelling at them to “get off the stage.” After hearing about this, Nick posted some of the following comments on Twitter:
“Lol. Be mad @ AMERICA when u get sent home. The JUDGES are the ones who FOUGHT for America to get the opp to VOTE 4 U!!! #memba? America r the ‘potential’ fans…u MUST win them over. ‘Saves’ are bulls**t and they know it. Those girls are just too good this year. Send the judges some flowers and a card. If Curtis didn’t get SAVED, NONE of u get saved! Best male voice of the SEASON!!!!!!!!!!! #TruthTea Trust me BEW BEW. If EYE didn’t want u in that TOP, YOU wldnt have been in that TOP. Fought for ALL of you. So just simply b gracious. Jennifer Hudson didn’t win!!!! Oscar winner!!! #memba??? ok. Take that exposure and let your light shine.”
Devin to his credit didn’t back down, writing a vague message seemingly accusing her of “stooping to 3rd grade” level, but then later deleted it. Devin also said in a conference call Friday that Nicki was right to call the group performance “Hollywood Week,” and he said that they should have all worked harder to ensure that they knew all of the lyrics.
All in all, the lesson that the guys need to be taking from this right now is that Nicki knows that the show likes her as an antagonist, and this is what she is going to do at times on the panel. For however hard she is on you when you are bad, though, she is all the more supportive when you are great.
What do you make of this little spat? If you want to hear more of what Lazaro Abros had to say after this performance, you can do so over at the link here.
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