Automatic (Nicki Minaj song)
| "Automatic" | ||||
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| Song by Nicki Minaj | ||||
| from the album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | ||||
| Format | Digital download | |||
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| Length | 3:18 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Onika Maraj, Nader Khayat, Jimmy Thornfield, Geraldo Sandell | |||
| Producer(s) | RedOne, Jimmy Joker | |||
| Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded track listing | ||||
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"Automatic" is a song recorded by Trinidadian born recording artist Nicki Minaj, from her second studio album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012). It was written by Onika Maraj, along with Nadir Khayat, Jimmy Thornfeldt and Geraldo Sandell, while production was handled by Khayat and Jimmy Joker. Musically, "Automatic" is a Europop and techno-influenced song that features strong elements of dance music and electronic music with instrumentation of synthesizers. "Automatic" received mixed reviews from most music critics, with most of them rather dismissing or praising the production, lyrical content and composition.
"Automatic" was written by Maraj, along with RedOne, Jimmy Thornfeldt and Geraldo Sandell, while production was handled by Khayat and Jimmy Joker. The song had a single release in France, while the rest of the world got "Va Va Voom". The song is about the "automatic" way somebody moves while on the dance floor. Minaj sings, "I can't control the way I'm moving hips, bet you never ever seen it like this, I'm a monster on the floor I can't quit." The song also references one of Nicki Minaj's older songs, "Girls Fall Like Dominoes" in the lyric, "falling like a domino". The song was compared to Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" including "Balearic beats" and includes a dubstep breakdown as well. The Boston Globe stated that the song "has a spoken-word interlude that sounds suspiciously like the breakdown on 'Vogue' by Minaj's latest cheerleader, Madonna."
Adam Graham of The Detroit News said the song made Minaj sound like a "generic dance-club diva, lost in a sea of pounding bass and EDM flourishes."Slant Magazine said that "Automatic", along with "Starships", "Pound the Alarm", and "Whip It", are "retro-techno-pop earsores comprised of indiscriminately arranged bits of LMFAO's 'Sexy and I Know It', Rihanna's 'We Found Love', and pretty much any recent Britney Spears or Katy Perry song you can name."
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