--- title: Nicki Minaj Cutouts on Helsinki Cathedral Steps description: Summer Up music festival appears to have placed 1000 Nicki Minaj cardboard cutouts on the steps of the Helsinki Cathedral in Finland canonical: https://time.com/3916372/nicki-minaj-butt-cardboard-cutouts-helsinki-cathedral/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-10T18:12:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:58.867Z og:title: Here's a Photo of 1,000 Cardboard Cutouts of Nicki Minaj's Butt on the Steps of a Cathedral og:description: Pound the alarm! og:url: https://time.com/3916372/nicki-minaj-butt-cardboard-cutouts-helsinki-cathedral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's a Photo of 1,000 Cardboard Cutouts of Nicki Minaj's Butt on the Steps of a Cathedral twitter:description: Pound the alarm! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's a Photo of 1,000 Cardboard Cutouts of Nicki Minaj's Butt on the Steps of a Cathedral  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 10, 2015 6:12 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 10, 2015 6:12 PM UTC As part of a promotion, a Finnish music festival called “Summer Up” claims it has placed 1,000 cardboard cutouts of Nicki Minaj showing off her behind on the steps of the Helsinki Cathedral. The [Helsinki news outlet](http://www.helsinginuutiset.fi/artikkeli/293078-mita-ihmetta-helsinki-taynna-nicki-minajeja) _Helsingin Uutiset_ reports that select cutouts had two-day passes taped to the back of them. The pop star is expected to be the main act for the event, which will take place July 3-4 in Lahti. 1000 [@NICKIMINAJ](https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) !!!! [pic.twitter.com/OiZTpyvPJC](http://t.co/OiZTpyvPJC) — Summer Up (@SummerUpFest) [June 10, 2015](https://twitter.com/SummerUpFest/status/608514153658089472?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) So there's 1000 cardboard [@NICKIMINAJ](https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)'s right now in downtown [#Helsinki](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Helsinki?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw). That's something new, nice [@SummerUpFest](https://twitter.com/SummerUpFest?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)! — Wille Miljas (@WMiljas) [June 10, 2015](https://twitter.com/WMiljas/status/608545916484743168?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Other angles of the scene from the music festival’s Instagram account: One critic has called the promo irreverent: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3916372/nicki-minaj-butt-cardboard-cutouts-helsinki-cathedral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3916372/nicki-minaj-butt-cardboard-cutouts-helsinki-cathedral/"},"headline":"Here's a Photo of 1,000 Cardboard Cutouts of Nicki Minaj's Butt on the Steps of a Cathedral","datePublished":"2015-06-10T18:12:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:58.867Z","description":"Pound the alarm!","url":"https://time.com/3916372/nicki-minaj-butt-cardboard-cutouts-helsinki-cathedral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3916372/nicki-minaj-butt-cardboard-cutouts-helsinki-cathedral/","name":"Here's a Photo of 1,000 Cardboard Cutouts of Nicki Minaj's Butt on the Steps of a Cathedral"}}]}] ```