So in her most recent video for her song “Window Seat,” performer Erykah Badu removes all of her clothes while walking along the path where JFK was shot.
In a way, it’s like strip poker for Oliver Stone.
Offended? Not me. This is daring! Edgy! Flabby!
Check it out, check it outers:
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Now that’s artsy! Wanna know how arsty? Well, the Washington Post describes it as a “big, bold artistic statement!” And they should know – they employ Howard Kurtz’s hair.
Back to the nude thing – which to many is seen as daring, when it’s really just unfair… to me.
Consider if I did the same thing as Erykah, say, in Bryant Park, around three a.m. I’d get hauled in. Don’t ask me how I know this – I just do. (I didn’t even get my action beads back.)
But the video doesn’t end there. After all – nudity is so Demi Moore, Vanity Faire 1991 – we need something really shocking.
Check it outers must check the vid’s 4:56 mark. She gets shot!
Didn’t see that coming. Well, actually I did. We all did.
Now, one could say that the real silliness of this video is how this “artist” makes a national tragedy about herself. It’s beyond narcissism – it’s super-duper-quadruple-narcissism. Maybe next video, she’ll dress up like the World Trade Center. The planes could be Big Macs.
But, it gets worse. At the end of the video, she gives a speech.
Okay, let me get this straight. She says…
“They move in packs, ingesting more fear with every act of hate….”
“They feel most comfortable in groups – less guilt to swallow.”
“They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand.”
“They are us.”
Hmm…wonder who she means!
So, let’s digest this: America is full of angry hate groups who are out to kill our leader. I mean, that has to be the message: why else would she reenact the JFK assassination – and end with that finger-wagging speech?
But her dopiness is magnified by a simple fact: the man who killed JFK was a pathetic loner, drenched in commie ideology. For her to ignore that simple fact, in order to condemn “us” as nefarious assassins – makes her worse than offensive. It’s makes her boring.
Yes, Erykah, you’re boring. You’re just another conformist playing in an echo chamber – desperate to revive a flailing career by parroting the same crap you’d find in a daily kos chat room.
Worse of all – the song sucks. Erykah – congrats – you put the bad in badu.
And if you disagree with me, you’re probably a racist homophobe who hasn’t seen Precious.
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