Critics Blast Nicki Minaj for Nazi-Inspired Music Video
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On Saturday, Nicki Minaj released the lyric video for her recent single "Only" and, well, yikes.
hey @NICKIMINAJ thanks for the blatant nazi imagery in your new video! really great allusion to persecution &genocide pic.twitter.com/prjM58hhMQ
— Melissa Morgan (@melissamorgs) November 8, 2014
As quite a few commenters pointed out, much of the video's imagery seems to be derived from the Nazis, specifically its color scheme, armbands, swastika-like Young Money logo and Riefenstahl-esque long shots.
Of course, video director Jeff Osborne would hardly be the first person to evoke Nazi aesthetics for fun and profit, but generally artists have refrained from using comparisons to Hitler's regime as a compliment.
Minaj has yet to respond to the criticism, but Osborne has been retweeting negative reactions to his video since yesterday.