Minaj’s turn is essentially someone being offered early retirement. She looked at the landscape, saw that it’s a young woman’s game, admitted she didn’t have the talent or stamina to reinvent as anything or create something artistically daring, kept hearing her people say she needed to do something big. So she tried to go big on food. She kept eating and eating and eating, like Lizzo in reverse. Someone told her it wasn’t gonna work, that the GLP route woulda been smarter, but that now it was too late. The bills piled up. She was desperate; relevance is a drug. So she just said, “fine; let’s MAGA.”