"Window Seat" or Striptease?

Erykah Badu came out with a very interesting music video called “Window Seat.” Basically the video is about her walking down her hometown streets of Dallas slowly giving the viewers a strip tease as she is singing to her song. As the song progresses more and more of her clothing comes off. The funniest part about all of this is that it was not even filmed by professionals, they did it in one shoot and the people that you see in the video are real people and nothing about this video was planned. Erykah obviously knew the risks of filming this video and she took them anyways.

Erykah Badu - Window Seat (Official Video) She Gets Butt Naked In The Video!

The point of this blog is that towards the end of the song when she is completely naked, we hear a gunshot and she falls to the ground with blue lines coming out of her head that spells “groupthink.” Directly where she falls is right in front of Dealey Plaza, where John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. In the article I saw this is it says, “Badu told the newspaper the video was a ‘protest’ and ‘about liberating yourself,’ adding that she chose the grassy knoll intentionally, for its historical significance. ‘I tied it in a way that compared the assassination to the character assassination one would go through after showing his or her self completely,’ Badu told the Dallas Morning News.” Call me crazy but last time I checked I thought there were much better ways to go about getting messages across to others without filming a video of yourself naked. But hey, it’s 2010 right?

At the end of the song Badu says this message, “They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups; less guilt to swallow. They are us; this is what we have become, afraid to respect the individual. A single person within our circumstance can move one to change, to love herself, to evolve.”

If Badu had been caught while filming this video the fines would have cost her up to about $4,000 and up to one year in jail or both. It was also reported that she and her group had bail money ready just in case because they knew the risk they were taking in order to create this. Badu tweeted, “funny, I thought I was outta shape thus encouraging others toward self love .. but they think I’m showin off. lol. the irony.” This video had the media talking A LOT but I actually have no words for it. What does everyone else think??