Why are people still obsessed with Nazi imagery? Do they just want to provoke, are they in love with the black swastika and the red and white design? I have no idea why would anyone be still using the pro-Hitler imagery if he or she is not a white supremacist sympathizer… However the last Nicki Minaj’s last video is heavily bathing in the Third Reich colors and symbolism.
The animation shows Minaj in the role of Hitler — there is no other way to see this thing — sitting on a throne in front of armies of soldiers wearing armbands with a logo very similar to the infamous swastika, and according to Consequence of Sound, ‘Brown [Chris] is represented as a military general, Wayne [Lil] as a head of business, and Drake as a Pope,’ Pope Pius XII, who eventually refused to take position when facing the horrors done by the Nazis.
The video was directed by Jeff Osborne, and I can’t even imagine the controversy Osborne and Minaj are starting… If she wanted to illustrate how much she rules the world (does she?) may be other imageries were available? I am all for symbolism and references in videos, but this one is so heavily loaded she will not get away with it this time. Why choosing the imagery of a tyran, a dictator responsible for a holocaust which killed 6 million Jews when you already have been accused of anti-semitism? Oh sure, you’re gonna say, there’s nothing new there, it has been done so many times before! Sid Vicious? David Bowie? Marilyn Manson? And I am probably forgetting many others, so it’s not even original, Nazis have become such a beat up cliché in music that I should not even mention this new clip. Personally, I think the lyrics are much more offensive than this cheap cartoon, but still, she has managed to start a controversy, and everyone is talking about it… otherwise who would even listen to this crap?
