I would love to read an actual copy of that magazine. I wonder who would carry it in town

Gone Baby, Don't Be Long makes my world all kinds of right.

I just heard the album - loved the first complete run through and i`m doing the fourth now. For me this is highly addictive music. Compared to her last cd i would say it`s a little happier, the grooves and the sounds are brighter and not as dark as on 4th World war. It`s actually hard the first time to get through the album - you`ll want to go back and hear that beat again. Well - i am like that. If you liked Erykah Badu before, you`ll have a whole lot of fun to do whatever it is you need to do with this album, and i think the people who have`t liked an entire album or haven`t listened to an entire album by her wil be simply amazed because this record has an incredible flow and continously there`s....it`s that heat. Passionate, full of love, funky and very creative. There were some songs that made me say "i`ve never even heard anything similiar to this music". Simply the flow of the album, song to song start til end, that reminds me of how records like Parade, Kind of blue, The Love movement, Permanent shade of blue, or Are you experienced? have a certain kind of flow to them.
For me this is her best record so far, i see this as a landmark release.
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tonight 3:33am dallas time (3/27)

window seat video coming out!!!!!

The video makes complete sense. She strips her clothes as a way to break out of conformity with how the world sees her and as it progresses she feels completely free. In my opinion the shooting signifies that even though breaks out of the norm, she always gets shot down for being who she is.

attention whore

Label given to any person who craves attention to such an extent that they will do anything to receive it. The type of attention (negative or positive) does not matter.

Alamine said:

And are you the sniper?

Alamine said:

And are you the sniper?

Erykah's nudity doesn't seem pointless or sexual IMO. As a matter of fact, its quite symbolic.
It could easily represent a journey through life - where she reveals more and more or herself or peels away her layers. You see the word "evolving" on her back at one point. The further she goes on her journey, the more she reveals of herself. Knowledge of self can also be intrepeted as knowledge of truth. The clothes represent the veils that people wrap themselves in during the course of life in general. To be in an evolved state, in a sense, would be like being like Adam and Eve. Not having shame or inhibition or fear of truth could be interpreted as being in an evolved state - having outgrown the social constrictions. She collapses in her video - which could symbolize death, which also symbolizes change - the conversion of the body back into matter. Changing after she has shed the social constrictions in life (represented by the clothes) and having evolved into a better being could be interpreted as her point. At lest, that's one way of looking at it (IMO).

I like this interpretation a lot - especially the idea of evolving through life being less about accumulating knowledge, and more about peeling back the layers, and being able to stand naked without fear.

I also thought, as well as her own personal 'journey', it's a comment on the nation's political journey - i.e. the seeming progress of electing a Black president that's been recently undercut by the vitriolic opposition to healthcare reform, and the Obama presidency in general, and the political and media 'assassination' of him over that. That, for me, is what makes the reference to JFK (and her hometown of Dallas) at the beginning, and the assassination scene at the end, a little unsettling, because it's playing-out a lingering nightmare scenario that's there just below the surface.

It takes only 17 muscles to smile and over 100 to organise a march.

Cinnie said:

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