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Erykah Badu’s new song, Window Seat is boring as hell,(to me) but the video has cause alot of controversy.
Badu was trying to hard to be provocative, and because of this it has ignited a firestorm of racist comments from youtubers and bloggers.

So basically what happens is a cameraman follows Badu as she walks down the street headed toward Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. For those of you who may not be aware of the historical significance, Dealey Plaza is where John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

As Badu casually strolls down she street, she removes her clothes, piece by piece. When she reaches the spot where JFK was gun down, she is completely nude.   just like JFK, she too, is shot in the head. As Badu lies “dying”, the blue blood oozing from her wound, spells out the words
“Group Think”.

I wont lie the song made me yawnnn at first, what shocked me how thick Erykah was, I always thought she was skinny, but she has a very nice shape #kanyeshrug can’t lie!
I think the video was very thought provoking she did it in one take, in front of a bunch of strangers,
those people were not paid actors or extras. it took a lot of balls (no pun intended) to do something like that, after watching the video 5x the song has grown on me a little, but more importantly i understand what she was trying to invoke, and the message that she is trying to send out to the masses.

I wonder if Lady Gaga did this would it be as controversial?  right now “telephone” is being played day and night on MTV and lady  gaga and beyonce killed a whole restaurant! there is absolutely nothing genuine or thought provoking about lady gaga she is a huge gimmick, I’ve seen her ass in very video and numerous award shows, but i have yet to see the same outrage that Erykah Badu was given, maybe if Erykah wasn’t a curvy black women or was shaped as manly as lady gaga everyone would have felt more comfortable.
people are such hypocrites!
Anyways  this is how Badu explained the message in her video:

“Sure, I would like to say that it was a protest to awaken a term called “groupthink.” It’s a term that was coined in 1952. It’s the recognition of a state of being for humans. It’s human nature for a person to be afraid to express his or her self in fear of being ostracized by the group or general consensus.

A lot of times people are judged unfairly because of that. I think about the Salem witch trials; I think about the assassination of Christ, I think about the character assassination of artists and celebrities on blog sites. I think about all of these things as groupthink. And when I fall to the ground in the video, the word groupthink spills out of my head, because I was assassinated by groupthink.”

source:she will not be charged http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/29/erykah.badu.strips/index.html?hpt=C2