![]() The capsule-shaped speaker drifts down without mention as Minaj sings the chorus: “Pills and potions, we’re overdosing / I’m angry but I still love you.”Ī visually rich video/photo shoot whose every camera movement luxuriates over Minaj and a shirtless Game, the clip shows Minaj grooving and grinding, moving sensually with bed-headed seductiveness, parting her lips to reveal silver grills on her teeth, snarling like a panther. ![]() It’s a smooth, pretty song that features Minaj further bridging the gap between her impressive skills as a rapper and evolving work as a singer.Īnd then, at the 1:20 mark it first arrives, sent down from the heavens as if from Jimmy Iovine’s all-giving hand: a Beats Pill XL portable speaker falling alongside a few purple tablets. Taken from her forthcoming album “The Pink Print,” “Pills and Potions” is a slow burn ballad featuring Minaj posing and looking beautiful as she sings and raps about anger, pills, love and frustration. With a few well-placed shots of a Beats-brand portable speaker amid the luxuriously filmed images of Minaj and her onscreen love interest, rapper the Game, the spot mixes marketing, message and meaning like a particularly vivid Saturday night drug cocktail. What, after all, is a clip but ad placement for an artist’s song? Still, the glaring one in Nicki Minaj’s new “Pills N Potions” clips blurs the line in impressive fashion. ![]() Product placement and music videos go hand in hand.
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