Nicki's 'Only' Lyric Vid Director On Nazi Controversy: ‘I’m Not Apologizing’

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Nicki Minaj may be taking “full responsibility†for the backlash from her “Only†lyric video, but the video’s director and visual artist, Jeff Osborne, is offering a bit of a different stance.

 

“Before I start, be clear that these are my personal views and not the views of Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, or Young Money,†he said in a statement to MySpace. “First, I’m not apologizing for my work, nor will I dodge the immediate question. The flags, armbands, and gas mask (and perhaps my use of symmetry?) are all representative of Nazism.â€

 

“But a majority of the recognizable models/symbols are American: MQ9 Reaper Drone, F22 Raptor, Sidewinder missile, security cameras, M60, SWAT uniform, General’s uniform, the Supreme court, and the Lincoln Memorial. What’s also American is the 1st Amendment, which I’ve unexpectedly succeeded in showing how we willfully squeeze ourselves out of that right every day.â€

 

The lyric video for Nicki’s latest The Pinkprint single came under fire over the weekend for its purported Nazi imagery.

 

“Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism,†the the Anti-Defamation League’s director, Abraham Foxman, said in a statement released on Monday.

 

Nicki said the visual was “influenced by a cartoon on Cartoon Network called ‘Metalocalypse’ & Sin City,†though Osborne seems to be offering a different explanation.

 

“As far as an explanation, I think its actually important to remind younger generations of atrocities that occurred in the past as a way to prevent them from happening in the future,†he said. “And the most effective way of connecting with people today is through social media and pop culture. So if my work is misinterpreted because it’s not a sappy tearjerker, sorry I’m not sorry. What else is trending?â€

 

 

http://www.mtv.com/news/1994839/nicki-minaj-only-lyric-video-director-not-apologizing/

 

[Pain of fame1 228]

So it is actually about the nazism?

[Didymus 34,379]

What a lovely collaboration this was.

[ThatSLAYGUY 68]

I actually agree with him 

[Sugarfall 3,723]

The video should be taken down

[DrewStevens 5,249]

I actually agree with him 

 

Why? 

[Yanko 9,860]

[ThatSLAYGUY 68]

Why? 

 

I feel as though the video was taken way too seriously. The video fit the tone of the song and I think had an interesting underlying message.

 

All of the collaborators are dressed as different figures (e.g. Nicki = Hitler, Drake = Pope, Lil Wayne = An Entrepreneur) I think that he was trying to portray a theme of world domination, but people focused too much on the Nazi symbolism. There was also Catholicism and the entrepreneur, these are both big influences in our world and often can be secretive and at times malicious.

 

Hopefully this kinda explained my point   

[swine killer 0]

I feel as though the video was taken way too seriously. The video fit the tone of the song and I think had an interesting underlying message.

 

All of the collaborators are dressed as different figures (e.g. Nicki = Hitler, Drake = Pope, Lil Wayne = An Entrepreneur) I think that he was trying to portray a theme of world domination, but people focused too much on the Nazi symbolism. There was also Catholicism and the entrepreneur, these are both big influences in our world and often can be secretive and at times malicious.

 

Hopefully this kinda explained my point   

 

 

The unerlying message is trashy, disturbing and misogynistic. The Nazi theme fits perfectly and I don't complain

[Fusel 1,093]

Problem is his video is in no way educational and has no moral intentions so he can kindly shut up about 'reminding the youth of nazism so it never happens again'. It was glorifying & lacked of any artistic substance. Stop trying to make bad excuses for a video full of cheap nazi symbolism smh

[DrewStevens 5,249]

I feel as though the video was taken way too seriously. The video fit the tone of the song and I think had an interesting underlying message.

 

All of the collaborators are dressed as different figures (e.g. Nicki = Hitler, Drake = Pope, Lil Wayne = An Entrepreneur) I think that he was trying to portray a theme of world domination, but people focused too much on the Nazi symbolism. There was also Catholicism and the entrepreneur, these are both big influences in our world and often can be secretive and at times malicious.

 

Hopefully this kinda explained my point   

 

Well you don't really agree with him. He never said people overreacted, he said that this video was a way to prevent atrocities that occurred in the past like the Holocaust from happening in the future. 

 

The problem is how are you going to educate young people to prevent these atrocities if their idols are portraying the ones who caused them.

[UzK 95]

The PC police need to remove their heads from their backsides, frankly. His explanation/justification was pretty spot on.

[Rollercoaster 2]

Is the point of people trashing it that they want to pretend Naziism wasn't a thing?

People have a problem with logos and uniforms that SEEM similar to a group of people..

Yet there's no problem with killing a diner full of people in the telephone video?

So uniforms are more of a big deal than murder?

Oh dear. The super left wing idiot brigade are out in force.

...unless the belief is that this video will raise hitler from the dead to take his place as leader of the modern world... because if that's true, today's youth would collapse. Facebook no more.

[Rat Boy 41,688]

Problem is his video is in no way educational and has no moral intentions so he can kindly shut up about 'reminding the youth of nazism so it never happens again'. It was glorifying & lacked of any artistic substance. Stop trying to make bad excuses for a video full of cheap nazi symbolism smh

He's trying to make it sound so intellectual :lmao: