Singer Nicki Minaj has never been known for keeping it classy, but the lyric video for her latest single, “Only,” seems to be too much even for diehard fans, who are calling the video “insensitive,” “disrespectful,” and worse.
Why? Here’s a screenshot:

The allusion to Nazi Germany is none-too-subtle. The video features Minaj as a dictator presiding over a jackbooted, arm-banded military, and the monolithic gray-stone aesthetic and blood-red banners are clearly intended to evoke the Third Reich.
The video has been roundly condemned by the Anti-Defamation League: “Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism,” Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor, told Fox News in a statement. “The irony should be lost on no one that this video debuted on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the ‘night of broken glass’ pogrom that signaled the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.” Minaj has not responded to press queries about the video.
There’s transgressive. And then there’s just moronic.






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