--- 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. 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[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. 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