Badu stripsnaked at site of JFK slaying
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April 1, 2010, Thursday
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AMERICAN soul singer Erykah Badu has caused a stir with a music video in which she strips naked in public at the site of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and falls to the ground as if shot.
The video is for "Window Seat," of her fifth studio album "New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)."
The Dallas-born entertainer strips down in Dealey Plaza in the city center, and falls to the ground with a jerk at the sound of a rifle shot.
Badu, who was dubbed the "Queen of Neo-Soul" in the 1990s, said the song was about "liberating yourself from layers and layers of skin or demons."
Badu, 39, told the Dallas Morning News that she chose the famous "grassy knoll" at Dealey Plaza because "it was the most monumental place in Dallas I could think of."
Kennedy was shot in the head in 1963 while driving through Dealey Plaza. The assassination site is widely considered sacred ground.
Badu said the video was a bid to awaken interest in a 1950s term called "groupthink" in which a person is afraid to express themselves for fear of being ostracized by the wider public.
"When I fall to the ground in the video, the word 'groupthink' spills out of my head because I was assassinated by 'groupthink,'" she said.
John Crawford, president of the nonprofit group Downtown Dallas, told the Dallas Morning News the video was "in poor taste and in poor judgment in my opinion."
The video sparked a lively debate among bloggers and on social media sites.
"Wow, sad how the art was displayed plain as day and no one seems to get it? How is it a dis to JFK? It's inspiring to me," wrote one commentator on YouTube.
The video is for "Window Seat," of her fifth studio album "New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)."
The Dallas-born entertainer strips down in Dealey Plaza in the city center, and falls to the ground with a jerk at the sound of a rifle shot.
Badu, who was dubbed the "Queen of Neo-Soul" in the 1990s, said the song was about "liberating yourself from layers and layers of skin or demons."
Badu, 39, told the Dallas Morning News that she chose the famous "grassy knoll" at Dealey Plaza because "it was the most monumental place in Dallas I could think of."
Kennedy was shot in the head in 1963 while driving through Dealey Plaza. The assassination site is widely considered sacred ground.
Badu said the video was a bid to awaken interest in a 1950s term called "groupthink" in which a person is afraid to express themselves for fear of being ostracized by the wider public.
"When I fall to the ground in the video, the word 'groupthink' spills out of my head because I was assassinated by 'groupthink,'" she said.
John Crawford, president of the nonprofit group Downtown Dallas, told the Dallas Morning News the video was "in poor taste and in poor judgment in my opinion."
The video sparked a lively debate among bloggers and on social media sites.
"Wow, sad how the art was displayed plain as day and no one seems to get it? How is it a dis to JFK? It's inspiring to me," wrote one commentator on YouTube.
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