Patrick stuttered.
"Wow, that's a great question..."
Internally, he felt like he was sinking, grasping for air and looking for any possible excuse.
"I wasn't... expecting that question...."
"um."
"Um."
He kept stuttering, in the key of E major.
As he stood in shellshock, he recalled all of the times when he enjoyed the joys of female music. When he was a child and got his mum to buy him a pet snake so he can recreate Britney's Slave 4 U VMA performance, when he seductively break danced thinking he was Beyonce in Crazy in love, when he dropped it low while wearing a pink wig imagining himself as Nicki Minaj and perfectly reciting lines about how this one is for the boys with the boomin system, top down, AC, in the coolin system!
He rehearsed his excuses for if people found out about his clandestine Spotify playlist, but he didn't know that he would be a deer caught in the headlights when it happened. He thought that it would get leaked in the media and then he would have time to gatter his thoughts.
This, however, felt like the equivalent of having your private sex tape being uploaded on a Pornhub livestream right before your eyes, leaving Baitfemme in an absolutely manic state.
"Ha! What lies! That is not what I listen to at all! I am... actually... ummm..."
FUCK. SHIT. DAMN. WHAT THE FUCK DO I SAY
GOD DAMN IT SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK
"I am... a Kanye West fan! Yes! And to prove it..."
He grabbed his mic and ran to the middle of the stage.
"Sound guy! Play the karaoke track to Runaway! Immediately!"
SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK OK OK OK Ok Ok ok o k ok o k ok I got this I got this I got this
"Let's gooooo!
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
As the performance was starting, Patrick seemed aggressively confident in what he was doing, though in his state of hysteria (oops, sorry, men don't have those) or uh I mean his state of being in blackout beast mode rage, he lost his focus and started reciting the lyrics to the Nicki Minaj Monster verse with an altered flow that fit this instrumentation.
"PULL UP IN THE MONSTA AUTOBOMILE GANGSTA
WITH A BAD BITCH THAT CAME FROM SRI LANKA
YE IM THAT TONKA COLOR OF WILLY WANKA
YE U CAN BE THE KING BUT WATCH THE QUEEN CONQUER
FIRST THINGS FIRST ILL EAT YO BRAINSSSS
THEN IMMA START ROCKING GOLD TEETH AND FAAAAANGS
CUZ THAT'S WHAT A MOTHERFUCKING MONSTA DO
HAIRDRESSA FROM MILAN THAT'S A MONSTA DO
MONSTER GUISEPPE HEEL THAT'S DA MONSTA SHOOOE"
He kept on going like his life depended on it, and kept repeating the same verse seven times over Runaway's exhaustive 9 minute duration.
The only time he actually stayed loyal to the original interpretation was towards the end, when he started whining into his microphone like a defeated child, sounding exactly like the original author.
What the fuck am I supposed to do
What the FUCK am I supposed to do
God, I know everyone is making fun of me
My secret is out
I'm... a Nicki stan
Pull in the Sri Lanka whaaat?
I'm not who I pretended to be al these years
I am an alpha... yes... but in a fun bad bitch yesss type of way
Not in a keep women in the basement making sandwiches type of way
God, what the fuck am I gonna do
Dear Jesus, WHAT am I gonna do
I need something to cover this up
I can't stay defeated
You know that the world can't keep a good bitch down
I have to do... something
SOMETHING
I have to...
yes.
yes.
yes.
Hahahahaehaha yessss sI know exactly what to do
Suddenly, he remembered Nicki Minaj's iconic BET speech that he watched in secrecy, and for the first time it hit him what she really meant.
"You know what... I know what...
I lived so much of my life in fear that people will find out who I really am.
Ya know?
And as I was doing all of this shit right here right now, I was internally praying to just disappear, I literally wanted to die.
And then it hit me... Damn, I'd rng dather sit here and fucking die in front of all of ya'll than what, confess who I really am?
Confess that I enjoy music that I find fun, empwering, strong, incredible?
Ya, ok, I get it, it's not my image
Ye, I got it, sure, fine, whatever, people like want me to act different or something but uh
Fuck it
The realization that I really just wanted to fucking die because I was just showing my real self, but I am still alive... shows that
Imma just do me! YE! IMMA DO ME! And I dont care what anybody else got to say!
I survived! I'm alive!
I'm a SURVIVOR
I'm NOT gon give up
I'm GON work hard
I'll keep on SURVIVIN!
ISTKALEN LADY, WHAT'S GEWD?"