Indeed, the five-minute work displays a sense of play and pleasure with the black female body that’s indulgent, unapologetic and ultimately liberating.īut it’s also problematic.

she is LILY/Lilith in a similar bathroom scene in BLACK SWAN (lily actually took her panties off in the scene in a SYMBOLIC moment that to this day has not been pointed out as relevant in any way to the “arc of the story”…usually in film or music video or other motion picture media, any time the camera captures or emphasises something and it APPEARS that it was “random and no explanation or acknowledgement is given by characters IN-STORY, usually there’s a symbolic meaning the director wants to hint at without being explicit that Those With Eyes will pick up on.The video features both Badu and her sister in full nudity, and while this is not new territory for the Dallas-born singer, it’s obvious that she’s comfortable with her body in a way that we haven’t seen before.

That lust woman that you meet in the bathroom, both shocked by her but secretly wishing you too could be that bold. the women too are scandalized, shocked, provoked. Annie shows it off to “Deacon Johnson ‘n'em” because she knows it will ruffle some feathers, it will arouse that true animalistic nature in them that they try to castrate, repress, and punish in the christian doctrine.

Unleash the beast! to me this tongue in cheek “joke song” is an ode to the Virgin, the unconquered UNCOVERED woman, naked pussy to the wind signifying her lack of reserve or “ladies’ propriety” she doesn’t have to be well-composed, “keep her legs closed”, the crossing of the legs in “decency” both protects/shields but unfortunately blocks the flow of the potent female energy.

Erykah badu annie dont wear no panties