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Erykah Badu Nude Video – Poor Taste or Smart Marketing?

soul singer Erykah Badu

I recently saw soul singer Erykah Batu, 39 year-old newly released music video, "Window Seat". In the controversial video, she striped butt naked in public at the site of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas Texas. In the video, she is on the street with passerby watching as she takes off her bra follow by her panties and than dropped her completely nude body to the ground as if she was shot from behind. With her body on the ground, it appeared as if blue blood was gushing out of her head onto the concrete with the blood converting into the word “groupthink”.

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 Dallas-born entertainer told the Dallas Morning News in an interview that she chose the famous 'grassy knoll' at Dealey Plaza because "it was the most monumental place in Dallas I could think of." She added that that 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.