Open Thread: Erykah Badu & The Flaming Lips Team Up for a NSFW Vid – Are You Feeling It?
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Erykah Badu is no stranger to controversy. Her personal life has been fodder for blogs and Twitter timelines for years, and her controversial video for Window Seat was both praised and lambasted by critics and fans. But that was just child’s play compared to her latest effort, The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, with the Flaming Lips.
The video shows a naked Badu singing while writing in the bathtub and then switches to another woman, Nayrok (Badu’s sister), completely and exposed naked and covered in glitter, blood, and something that looks a whole lot like sperm.
While I have my thoughts on the video…I’ll leave the commentary up to you guys.
Are you feeling the song and the video for ‘The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face’? Speak on it!
Uh, No ma’am!!! The song was alright, but the video was too weird!!! Why would you re-make such a beautiful song and play it against such vulgarity and obscurity?
My sentiments exactly! Such a beautiful song set to…not sure what it was set to really.
I like the fact that she is fearless. I love love love glitter. So this video works for me. I need to be a bit buzzed to get into the song.
i think the beginning of the video is supposed to be symbolic of the magic within a woman’s womb.
notice how she puts her toe through the diamond (vagina) she makes with her fingers.
the emergence from the water/glitter, the blood, the slap on the butt, all reminiscent of birth.
now, the “sperm” scene at the end? i could’ve done without that. still a beautiful video though.
I’ve always loved Erykah Badu as well as The Flaming Lips. But this video is embarrassingly stupid. And, well, degrading. Usually, I’m not so prudish. I really liked her Window Seat video – I understood the point of the nudity in it. Not so much for this video. Typical try-hard, shock-value, stupidity that has become all too common in popular culture.
didnt watch the video and wont watch after that weird description- her music is good – erkyah is on planet x with the rest of the looney birds