Nicki Minaj: Only
After similarities between "Only" and Nazi propaganda became too clear to ignore, the ADL has released a statement condemning the music video for its insensitive nature.
"The abuse of Nazi imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who can recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to make as a result of Hitler's Nazi juggernaut," the statement issued to Billboard reads.
The lyric video, which was released on Nov. 7, features Minaj as a dictator, Drake as a pope, Lil Wayne as a businessman and Brown as a military captain pulls largely from what appears to be World War II propaganda films. Red flags with a Young Money symbol that comes a little too close to a swastika, zeppelins carrying bombs and massive marches featuring cartoon soldiers are all featured in the controversial clip.
Read the full statement from the ADL below:
"Nicki Minaj's new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture's exploitation of Nazi symbolism. 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.
It is troubling that no one among Minaj's group of producers, publicists and managers raised a red flag about the use of such imagery before ushering the video into public release.
This video is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era. The abuse of Nazi imagery is deeply disturbing and offensive to Jews and all those who can recall the sacrifices Americans and many others had to make as a result of Hitler's Nazi juggernaut."
Thus far, neither Minaj nor anyone else involved in the "Only" lyric video have responded to the Nazi imagery controversies.
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