Nicki Minaj on ‘Last Time I Saw You’: “People don’t realise how scary it can be for an artist to try something new”

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Nicki Minaj has spoken about her recent single ‘Last Time I Saw You’, explaining how “scary” it was for her to “try something new”.Last Friday (September 1), the New Yorker dropped the sombre pop ballad, explaining how the track captured a feeling of hope over loss.“Even [though] reliving the memories did feel ‘sad,’ after I wrote, recorded, [and] lived [with the song], it actually made me pay more attention to the people I still DO have, and how important it is to cherish them and have fun NOW [and] in the moment,” she wrote. “Telling them how much you adore them, etc. [It] made me so happy.”POW!

even tho reliving the memories did feel “sad”…After I wrote recorded & lived w/it, it actually made me pay more attention to the ppl I still DO have & how important it is to cherish them & have fun NOW in the moment; telling them how much u adore them, etc.

made me so happy https://t.co/W3diVKPdDb— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) August 26, 2023Then, on Apple Music 1‘s New Music Daily radio show with Zane Lowe, Minaj spoke to the prolific radio presenter about her new track as well as her upcoming fifth album ‘Pink Friday 2’.On ‘Last Time I Saw You’, she said she wants to “represent [her] growth, not just as an artist, but as a human being.” Minaj also revealed that she was apprehensive about dropping such an emotional song: “People don’t realise how scary it can be for an artist to try something new no matter how big of an artist it is.“If you’re not a major Nicki Minaj fan,” she later explained, “you wouldn’t know [that] Nicki Minaj does this kind of music.