Trending News|November 12, 2014 02:51 EST
Nicki Minaj 'Only' Music Video Slammed by Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Famous Hollywood female singer and rapper Nicki Minaj was recently made headlines about her latest music video for the song "Only". The video is controversial because it showcases colors and imagery that resembles Adolf Hitler's Nazi party propaganda of the early 1940s.
The song which also features Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Drake gained online traffic because at first glance, the music video screams Nazi with all the red flags and the black and white scenery.
The video for the most part showed a cartoon version of Minaj sitting on a throne wearing a black formfitting outfit while the soldiers salute her. She then goes around the army and somehow directs them, which reports say, makes Minaj seem like a "Hitlereseque" figure.
The video on Youtube got thousands of views right away and several people and social groups reacted with their distaste.
"Nicki Minaj's new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture's exploitation of Nazi symbolism," Abraham Foxman, a Holocaust survivor as well as the national director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), told ABC News.
"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 continued.
ADL also said that the video is "insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era," adding: "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."
Minaj was reportedly asked about her comment on the recent media outrage, but the singer has not responded.