--- title: Mom Hates Only by Nicki Minaj: Video description: "Her reaction to her going viral has been a bunch of ‘oh my’s’ and ‘are you serious.'" canonical: https://time.com/4202393/mom-hates-nicki-minaj/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-01T17:19:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:31.790Z og:title: This Mom Really, Really Does Not Like Nicki Minaj og:description: She's going viral for her reaction to 'Only' og:url: https://time.com/4202393/mom-hates-nicki-minaj/ 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: This Mom Really, Really Does Not Like Nicki Minaj twitter:description: She's going viral for her reaction to 'Only' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Mom Really, Really Does Not Like Nicki Minaj by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 1, 2016 5:19 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 1, 2016 5:19 PM CUT To many people, [Nicki Minaj](http://time.com/4120408/nicki-minaj-reads-maya-angelou-still-i-rise/ "undefined") is a star. An icon. A queen. But to this mom, she is nothing more than a menace. Ninenteen-year-old Dominic Licciardi tried to convert his mom into a Nicki fan by playing the song [“Only”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXtsGAkyeIo "undefined") for her. He took a video of her reaction and shared it on Twitter, where it’s been retweeted thousands of times: > [](https://twitter.com/dominatert1/status/692840634437095426) (Being a social media savvy teen, Licciardi also memorialized the moment in [a Vine](https://vine.co/v/i5K0gKD6Ulv "undefined").) Licciardi [told](http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/mom-listening-to-nicki-minaj-for-the-first-time#.kpDDJLoV7 "undefined") BuzzFeed that his mom was just shocked by the lyrics. In the meantime, she’s also shocked that the video has gotten so much attention online. “Her reaction to her going viral has been a bunch of ‘oh my’s’ and ‘are you serious’,” Licciardi said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4202393/mom-hates-nicki-minaj/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4202393/mom-hates-nicki-minaj/"},"headline":"This Mom Really, Really Does Not Like Nicki Minaj","datePublished":"2016-02-01T17:19:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:31.790Z","description":"She's going viral for her reaction to 'Only'","url":"https://time.com/4202393/mom-hates-nicki-minaj/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/4202393/mom-hates-nicki-minaj/","name":"This Mom Really, Really Does Not Like Nicki Minaj"}}]}] ```