Pills and potions refers to the drugs they use to manipulate a monarch slave into thinking a certain way and becoming easily suggestable. These lyrics are the key to understanding all of this.
She’s singing the lines “Pills ‘n potions, we’re overdosing, I’m angry but I still love you” while the video rapidly switches between her in black and white outfits. She’s looking up as though being looked down upon, half-naked and covering up what she can. The next setting we see her in is one of vulnerability. She’s in cat-eye eyeliner (wink wink) and smoking a cig in a sheer, white robe. Luckily for you, there aren’t any subliminal messages in it, but it is laden with symbolism so let’s walk through this one step by step, yeah? I’ll tell you right now that I know for sure this video is not about Easter. I’m going to assume that most of you who landed on this article have already seen the video and want answers. Now that we spent all that exhaustive time covering the originality of these lyrics, let’s look a bit deeper and get a grasp on what this song is really all about. They go over relationships, people who love you, people who don’t really love you, people who hate you, and being better than those people because you sold out to afford your drugs and cars. The lyrics, on the surface, are easy to grasp. In this, it’s about a slave in the world of monarch programming, and the male in the song and video represents an alter. But beneath the shaky facades of most mainstream pop songs today lie undeniably dark messages. The “simple” meaning of the song is about a toxic relationship that she repeatedly chooses to stay in because she “still loves” him. It’s a rather odd (for her), but not too terrible-sounding song from the rapper-gone-pop-gone-whatever-she-is-now vocalist. I’m talking about the latest single by Nicki Minaj released under YMCMB. But I’m not talking about medication and alcohol- no.
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