“Let’s vote for Ms Beach, Beach, let’s vote for our fave” sings Minaj in a reworked version of her 2012 record ‘Starships’.
As the hotly contested race for Deputy President of the UQLS reaches its final days, candidate Angharad Beach has collaborated with rap superstar Nicki Minaj to re-release the 2012 smash hit Starships in a move pundits are saying could blow the race wide open. Minaj’s hit opens:
“let’s vote for Ms Beach, Beach, let’s vote for our fave,
They say, what they gonna say
Grab a coff, fee and hit the Law Libe
Candidates like her are hard to come by”
Beach lends her voice to the pre-chorus, crooning:
“hey UQ Law, Law, you’ve got one chance
Society-y, I will enhance
So vote some more, more, for Dep-u-ty Pres
Tillie’s a bore, bore, but here I am”
The Obiter was able to speak to Minaj, who told us that, in fact, it was her who had reached out to Angharad with the idea to work together.
“I’ve just been such a huge fan of her essays and exam answers throughout the years,” said Nicki, “and her work in the 2022 Law Revue was sublime. So, of course, when I saw she was up for such a crucial position, I felt that I had to do whatever I could to get her over the line.”
Many think of the role of Deputy President as somewhat of a symbolic role; this, of course, could not be further from the truth. The Deputy President, like the Secretary and Treasurer, works closely with the President to co-ordinate the Law Society. Most importantly, the Deputy President is ready to step into the President’s shoes in the case of an assassination, a situation which is unfortunately all too common for the Leader of the Free Campus.
Indeed, just this year Deputy President Nyenyezi Murhi spent a week in a bunker for security reasons following an attempt on the life of President Charlotte Traves by a group of radical Sidney Lumet fans after her (admittedly misguided and insensitive) comments that the Law Ball’s theme referred to the 2017 Kenneth Branagh MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and not Lumet’s 1974 adaptation.
Reports from the Tillie Alleluia camp are that the candidate was blindsided by the song’s release, but has been working the phones tirelessly attempting to get in contact with Leonard Cohen or Jeff Buckley to rework Hallelujah into Alleluia, a campaign anthem of her own.