Just when you thought Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj
were done bickering on “American Idol,” the two diva judges have thrown so much shade
at each other over the past 24 hours producers might have to set up extra stage lights just so we can see all the eye-rolling on Thursday night’s (May 2) elimination show.
The agree-to-disagree/hate relationship took another serious turn on Wednesday night when Carey not-so-subtly tweaked Minaj by noting that the Young Money queen had never reached the #1 position on Billboard’s Hot 100 single chart. (Not for nothing, but Billboard reported last April that both women had 44 Hot 100 hits, though Carey still holds the record for most weeks at #1 (16) for her 1995-96 Boyz II Men hit “One Sweet Day.”)
Well, you knew Nicki wasn’t going to take that sitting down. On Thursday morning she started the day with a tweet that set things off again. “All dem #1s but JLo phone ringin?,” Minaj wrote double-tweaking Carey by using one of her favored bit of twin-related slang and bringing up the sore subject of rumors that “Idol” producers had reportedly considered dumping Mariah in favor of former judge Jennifer Lopez earlier this season when ratings began to go (further) south.
