News/ Nicki Minaj's Controversial ''Only'' Music Video Slammed for Nazi Imagery: ''It's Insensitive to Holocaust Survivors," Says ADL
Amanda Bynes isn't the only celeb making headlines about Hitler today.
Nicki Minaj's
new music video for "Only" has come under fire for imagery that's very
reminiscent of red, black and white Nazi iconography and propaganda from
Adolf Hitler's reign over Germany. The vid, which also features Chris Brown, Drake and Lil Wayne,
portrays Minaj as a cartoon dictator with soldiers saluting her. There
are also giant red banners with a Y-M symbol on them that resemble a
Nazi swastika.
The controversial video has fans and critics everywhere talking (and not in a favorable way).
"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, the national director for the
Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor, told ABC News
Monday. "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."
Foxman also called the video "deeply disturbing and
offensive" and said that it "is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a
trivialization of that era."
Another interesting thing to note
about the Nazi-like imagery is that Drake, who raps on the track, is
Jewish (he has yet to defend the video via social media). So far, Minaj
hasn't addressed the controversy surrounding her video.
What do you think of Minaj's "Only" music video?
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