 The music video for Monster was widely controversial , being banned on MTV . Ta @-@ Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic questioned " what would have become of John Mayer , had he cut a video with dead black women strewn about and invoked black women throughout his lyrics in the manner Kanye does " and labeled the video both racist and sexist in nature . However , Brandon Soderberg of Spin argues that the video was simply a " surreal response to hip @-@ hop misogyny " and a " knowing provocation " , and commented that the video was in fact inspired by horror films . 
