This morning I got this, and expected it to be just another performance video.

Not exactly. I’m happy that she gave Matt & Kim dap in the very beginning, but it’s safe to say that her video’s gonna go a a LOT further. Hope the album’s good. Because she just got herself a big bag of controversy.

It’s controversial because folks have a problem with nudity. Nude Black women, to be specific. I read a comment on a blog that described it as “art”, which is such a bullshit thing to say. Of COURSE it’s art. I have a feeling this is going be VERY popular. But not for the reason it should be.

One interpretation of this film is:

Erykah gives everything she has, very few people see what she’s really trying to say the whole time, and she is killed for it in the end. That’s the interpretation I’m rolling with.

[Edit (3/28): so I moved the full version of the video to the main page, to ease the load on this one poor post. If you're on the site, you've seen it by now.]