Erykah Badu-Barefoot & Brave
Posted on | March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
Erykah jumped into the audience barefoot at the Fox Theater in Oakland. What’s the big deal about being barefoot? My spiritual mentor taught me that you can absorb the energy of a place if you are barefoot. So Erykah jumping into the crowd, barefoot, represented strength (knowing she could contain her energy) and vulnerability (knowing she could trust that the audience wouldn’t hurt her) to me. I was impressed by the way she let the crowd move her from one side of the audience to the other. This lady has courage, and WHAT a performer.
I wish my iPhone hadn’t panicked and deleted my videos from the concert before I had a chance to back them up. I’d be able to show you her toes close-up, because I was in the first row, pressed to the gate.
Erykah is tiny, dazzling, energetic, and I can’t wait for her new songs coming out on March 30, 2010. Check out her show if you can.
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March 26th, 2010 @ 2:28 pm
i’m glad her feet are so healthy she can be barefoot all the time, even in her video, with Lil’ Wayne
March 30th, 2010 @ 8:54 am
What do you think of her latest video for “Window Seat”? I don’t get it. Something about black women and their bodies having been property?
March 31st, 2010 @ 3:48 pm
there’s a lot to digest in “Window Seat”. gotta think about it. here are some quick thoughts:
interesting that she decided to blur out her body in the video. she leaves the viewer wondering what people in Dallas were thinking when they saw her strip (but we don’t get to see her strip). so she’s naked, but i don’t think it’s titillating, do you?
why’d she choose to do a kind of re-enactment of the JFK assassination?
thinking on it. what do you think?