Recently, I was feeling artsy-fartsy and thought it would be a good idea to strip completely naked while walking down the street. But…I decided against doing that and chose to direct my creative energies elsewhere. In March, Erykah Badu was overcome with that same emotion but actually decided to act on hers. With Dallas, TX’s Dealey Plaza – site of JFK assassination - as her stage, the soulful songstress sheds her threads, and in one take, creates the controversial “Window Seat” video.
Please. Feel free to watch again if you need. I was equally shocked and bewildered after watching Window Seat the first, second, third, fourth … and tenth times. After shooting the video, Ms. Badu tweeted that Window Seat was shot “guerilla style,” had no production crew and that there was no closed set.
Basically, some unsuspecting kiddies’ field trip unexpectedly turned into a graphic lesson in anatomy. For her indecent performance, Erykah paid a $500 fine and is on 6 months probation.
Google the song’s lyrics, and you will find the Neo-Soul Queen is crooning about needing some alone time and about needing some special attention.
Somehow, I missed the part of the song where she talks about needing to get out of her clothes. Oh, wait. That wasn’t in the lyrics.
So why did Erykah choose to publically let it all hang out? According to the “On and On” singer, she was challenging “groupthink” and people’s tendency to “play it safe.” By shooting Window Seat at Dealey Plaza, she said she hoped to illustrate the correlation between physical and character assassination.
Aside from drooling over her bootyliciousness, what do you really think? Was Ms. Eccentric Erykah artistically justified in breaking out the birthday suit?
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