Nicki Minaj: Pills N Potions Meaning

Song Released: 2014

Pills N Potions Lyrics

Pills and potions
We're overdosing
I’m angry but I still love you
Pills and potions
We're overdosing
Can't stand it, but I still love you
I still love, I still love
I still love, I still love
I still love, I still love
I still love, I...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 20th 2014 !⃝

   Your all wrong... Love is a potion! Natural chemicals coursing through our veins all day long, heroin and crack cocaine have nothing on the addictive power of love. Mix that with some pills & other potions and BLAM!!! You have a great song.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 16th 2014 !⃝

   Alice in wonderland as interpreted in her bet appearance...pills and potions is what alice took to maneuver and cope with her experiences when she followed the rabbit into his hole...when she was running from her reality, a reality which may involve a hurtful love inyrest or other
3. anonymous

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   Aug 11th 2014 !⃝

   I think pills and potions is about someone who did somthing to you that hurt you. And you tried to give them advice they didn't follow and they did somthing hateful but instead of taking the anger out on the person you take pills to hide the pain
4. anonymous

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   Jul 27th 2014 !⃝

   I don't know if its about drugs. I see it as something bad happening to someone she obviously loves there's a lot of commotion and people saying he/she is bad. She loves them to much to let others change the way she feels. "In due time we'll be fine, I still love". I guess like others have said that is real love.
5. anonymous

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   Jul 19th 2014 !⃝

   Idk. dont pop pills or do drugs because ypur hurt. love conquers all.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
6. anonymous

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   Jul 10th 2014 !⃝

   The lyrics mean that despite the fact that the person that she loved did something (untasteful) bad, although she will never be able to live with that person again or have them so entwined in her life, she'll always love them because there will always be that part that will love them. Even though they did something bad and she cannot be in their life anymore.
   (Nicki mentioned something similar in an interview)
7. anonymous

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   Jul 9th 2014 !⃝

   It means even though you hate that you popping pills and potions, you still do it bc you love the high. It's a love/hate relationship with drugs. People get like that when they're addicted.
8. anonymous

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   Jul 8th 2014 !⃝

   I think it means that the person she loves is on drugs and drinking and she doesn't like it but no matter what she loves him.
9. anonymous

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   Jul 8th 2014 !⃝

   My interpretation of this song is that though things are difficult and whoever Nicki is talking about may be feeling the pressure of life so they drink and do drugs as a coping mechanism. Even though she may be mad at him, she can't ignore the fact that they had something special and she misses the good times they had, so she (Nicki) does pops pills so she doesn't have to feel the pain either.
10. anonymous

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    Jul 7th 2014 !⃝

    no matter how much i try to overdose myself with drugs, i still cant forget loving you. This means because we don't have good terms with our relation ship i try to take some pills as to forget you but its all not working....I STILL LOVE YOU.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 2nd 2014 !⃝

    This isn't my interpretation of Pills and Potions, by Niki Minaj this is the interpretation of it: okay, we get it, no matter the circumstances in their. Relationship, they'll be okay, and they will last especially if its true love. But what abut the big picture??? Well I don't know, u know why ?..... because I don't understand what the fuck a rabbit symbolizes in all of this !

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
12. anonymous

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    Jun 22nd 2014 !⃝

    I do the same.
13. anonymous

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    Jun 17th 2014 !⃝

    This song means a lot. It's trying to say that no matter how angry or how much pain there is inside of you, love outstands everything. Love is everywhere and inside you. Love never leaves you no matter what. Pills an potions mean doing drugs. You use drugs to forget about the past and ignore the hate. But love conquers all.
14. anonymous

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    Jun 16th 2014 !⃝

    in the video the bunny represents nikki. the song basically says that she knows the pills are bad for her but shes still taking them anyways.

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15. anonymous

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    Jun 12th 2014 !⃝

    “Pills and potions” stand for all the different ways we medicate ourselves — whether it’s literal medicine, illicit drugs and alcohol, or just any coping mechanism on an emotional level. It’s something we cling to when we’ve been wronged by those who love us, something we get high on to forget the pain and anger.
    
    But in the end, love transcends all of that. Love continues to exist past the hurt and past the O.D. of pills and potions we use to mask it.

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