Erykah Badu promotes individualism

Erykah Badu was in Dallas' Dealey Plaza at the site of President John F. Kennedy's assassination to film her music video for her song "Window Seat." In her video Badu disrobes as she walks down a busy street midday and the funny part is the passersby aren't video extras but real life pedestrians who mainly ignore her except for a man who picks up some of her clothes and a woman who stares while holding the hand of a toddler boy. The scene was inspired by Matt & Kim's "Lessons Learned" video where the group undresses in Times Square. In her video by the time she reaches the spot where Kennedy was killed she is completely nude, you hear a gun shot, her head crocks back, and she falls to the ground and the words "Group Think" bleed from her head in blue ink. "Its a comfort zone that we create for ourselves, and i go outside of that comfort zone" says Badu to the Wall Street Journal. Badu does admit that she feels some anxiety for the children who were present and hopes they wont be traumatized. However she did talk to her three children and their fathers beforehand and received their support. "Window Seat' is a song about being liberated from I think mostly ourselves," Badu told the Wall Street Journal. "In the video I shed a lot of emotion, a lot of baggage by way of shedding clothing. I do this in the middle of a busy street which is totally probably something that is not accepted in society, thus the definition of not conforming to what society would expect you to do." I like how she is trying to prove a message but I do agree that those kids shouldn't have been subjected to seeing her naked body.