Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

it's not her! it's her sister. which makes the entire thing even weirder.

that's erykah in the bathtub though, right? lip-syncing?

huh. xp

i'm not sure. the whole thing might be her sister. they look very similar.

looks good, whoever it is. the song is terrible.

jizztub

fuck off, flaming lips

fuck off, flaming lips

‎3:33pm dallas
@waynecoyne then... perhaps, next time u get an occasion to work with an artist who respects your mind/art, you should send at least a ROUGh version of the video u PLAN to release b4 u manipulate or compromise the artist's brand by desperately releasing a poor excuse for shock and nudity that sends a convoluted message that passes as art( to some).
Even with Window Seat there was a method and thought process involved. I have not one need for publicity . I just love artistic dialogue . And just because an image is shocking does not make it art.
You obviously have a misconception of who I am artistically. I don't mind that but...
By the way you are an ass.
Yu did everything wrong from the on set .
First:
You showed me a concept of beautiful tasteful imagery( by way of vid text messages) .
I trusted that. I was mistaken.
Then u release an unedited, unapproved version within the next few days.
That all spells 1 thing ,
Self Serving .
When asked what the concept
meant after u explained it , u replied ,"it doesn't mean anything , I just want to make a great video that everyone is going to watch. "
I understood , because as an artist we all desire that. But we don't all do it at another artist's expense .
I attempted to resolve this respectfully by having conversations with u after the release but that too proved to be a poor excuse for art.
From jump,
You begged me to sit in a tub of that other shit and I said naw. I refused to sit in any liquid that was not water. But Out of RESPECT for you and the artist you 'appear' to be, I Didn't wanna kill your concept , wanted u to at least get it out of your head . After all, u spent your dough on studio , trip to Dallas etc.. Sooo, I invited Nayrok , my lil sis and artist, who is much more liberal ,to be subject of those other disturbing (to me ) scenes . I told u from jump that I believed your concept to be disturbing. But would give your edit a chance.
You then said u would take my shots ( in clear water/ fully covered parts -seemed harmless enough) and Nayrok's part ( which I was not present for but saw the photos and a sample scene of cornstarch dripping ) and edit them together along with cosmic, green screen images ( which no one saw) then would show me the edit. .
Instead, U disrespected me by releasing pics and rough vid on the internet without my approval. (Contract breech )
That is equivalent to putting out a security camera's images of me changing in the fitting room.
I never would have approved that tasteless, meaningless, shock motivated video .
Our art is a reflection of who we are . I have no connection to those images shot in their raw version. I was interested in seeing an amazing edit that would perhaps change or alter my thoughts . Never happened .
You also did the same thing with the song itself which displays crappy "rough "vocals by me . I let it go , perhaps iiiii was missing something, I thought.
I Should have followed my first mind back in studio when recording the vocals "your way".
( Red flag.) It was uncomfortable.
For that I am at fault .
Consequently, brother, As a human I am disgusted with your what appears to be desperation and poor execution. And disregard for others . As a director I am unimpressed . As a sociologist I understand your type. As your fellow artist I am uninspired. As a woman I feel violated and underestimated.
Hope it works out for ya ,Wayne.
Really i could give a shit less.
Still love your live show tho.
And , you're welcomed.
Lesson learned .
By the way I have guested in very few videos. But I have always been given the opportunity to see the edit and contribute to it when my roll is substantial. Not this time .
I guess u feel it better to apologize than ask for permission and be refused . Hey, Love u man, but your ways are not very nice .
O, And on behalf of all the artists u have manipulated or plan to manipulate, find another way .
These things have been said out of necessity.
And if you don't like it
you can KiSS MY Glittery ASS .
O and Nayrok told me to tell u to kiss her ass too .
Almost forgot.
Peace

Ms. Badu

Analog Girl's Magnetic Strip Club

yikes!

Only now just watched it and, yes, fuck you flaming lips.

can someone shorthand what happened here

ouch

Apparently she's lost Shafiq's number. Can someone plz just pass it along to her and we can put this whole last 6 months or so of collaborating with shit musicians behind us? kthxbye.

The backtracking on this has been pretty epic on all sides, tho, tbh.

how so?

*applauds erykah*

wow that is very hammer

eric, you have a link to that instead of the text?

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/hno30u

thx

The only thing I blame Erykah for is having suddenly terrible taste in collaborators.

Consequently, brother, As a human I am disgusted with your what appears to be desperation and poor execution. And disregard for others . As a director I am unimpressed . As a sociologist I understand your type. As your fellow artist I am uninspired. As a woman I feel violated and underestimated.

<3 <3 <3

He shoulda just stuck with smoking one of those jelly weed skulls.

this whole last 6 months or so of collaborating with shit musicians behind us? kthxbye.

― Björk lied (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:42 PM Bookmark

who other than the flaming lips?

not shitty musicians but it seems like she's been doing lots of low-stakes collabs lately, like the "cannabinoids" and that all-star funk cover band with ?uestlove, wendy & lisa, etc

whatever that Ronson thing is upthread + whatever the hell the Cannabinoids are

xpost, et al

oh yeah the new orleans thing

glad to see her distancing herself from the song too

https://twitter.com/#!/waynecoyne

What a creep.

@waynecoyne

Dang!!!!! @fatbellybella you really know how to do it!!!! You hatin on me has gotten the video 100,000 more views !!!LOVE LOVE LOVE

i wonder what she and nayrok were expecting after filming that

People who RT fan compliments are the most disgusting savages.

People who RT fan compliments are the most disgusting savages.

if you express this sentiment among fans you'll find that some people think of it as just giving the fan a chance to have his/her voice heard - like, I agree with you & would never, but if you say "rt'ing people praising you is gross" ppl will tell you "oh so you're too good to rt a compliment from somebody, fine fine mr. high-n-mighty"

yeah i'm sure it's a weird thing to deal w/ because certain fans/fanbases really get off on the "i have the BEST FANS IN THE WORLD MWAH" thing that seems sycophantic and gross to people outside of it.

there's something really sad to me about how coyne is this 50 year old dude who was slogging through the pre-internet underground for years and now he's just constantly chasing this asinine lol virality culture and trying to be the king of meme music with all his FOUR DAY LONG SONGS FEATURING KE$HA WOAH DUDE

it wouldn't be sad to you in the same sense of "sad" if you saw his bank statement, I think

you have?

no, but they do very well for themselves, I can tell you that - what we out here in snarksville think of as "chasing virality" codes for a larger % of the public as "being famous." what looks like trying too hard to people who think about pop culture all day long just looks like success to people whose engagement isn't as deep-game

see that's the thing, i shouldn't pity him because he got to be very successful at being kooky eccentric artist guy, but fuck what a lamewad

The thing about fans expecting their compliments to be retweeted is so strange to me. It seems pretty self-centered and entitled.

that version of 'race for the prize' they did to cash in on the thunder is just amazingly half assed, even for the flaming lips in 2012

i mean i don't begrudge him his success, in some ways i admire FL for not doing the boring old album-single cycle and trying to do something different, but it's like he's actively trying to be more inane than people half his age raised on youtube (and doing a great job of it)

there's a distinction wrt the things he's RTing that's even worse though, which is that alongside you're right NEVER CHANGE WAYNE!! he's also (admittedly amid just rting every other thing) pasting stuff like

Ry4n W. Bradley ‏@
Seriously?! http://bit.ly/LyY6gF Erykah Badu should be thankful to @theflaminglips & @waynecoyne for reminding people she's still around.
Retweeted by Wayne Coyne

which is like building a treehouse & having your friends throw coconuts out of it at strangers

do you remember when you wrote to the letters column in your favorite bands fanzine and you were stoked that they printed it? or just that one time someone called you out in the audience by name? (for me it was rob crow thanking me for writing a story on heavy vegetable in my school newspaper) i don't think i was either self-centered or entitled or creepy for being stoked about that, it's just that nowadays it's on twitter between adults i guess.

The thing about fans expecting their compliments to be retweeted is so strange to me. It seems pretty self-centered and entitled.

yeah, but - and I don't like saying this any more than I like knowing it - it's a generational thing. what seems crass & gross to us reads different to a different generation. I can either cling to my sense of how things seem to me, or I can try to see things from a different perspective. I have my limits, to me I just couldn't look at myself if I was rt'ing AEROSMITH ROCKS, BIG FAN HERE CAN I GET A RT? but the whole process looks diff. to younger cats, they grew up in a diff. world than I did so it's natural that things would look different to them

there's a distinction wrt the things he's RTing that's even worse though, which is that alongside you're right NEVER CHANGE WAYNE!!

Badu's doing the same YOU'RE SO RIGHT thing on her feed isn't she?

i guess it's just that some sort of not really objectionable thing is being multiplied by whatever coyne did which seems at least poorly thought-out and likely completely creepy multiplied by hating on the fallen genius multiplied by the general thing of hating on twitter

maybe one "multiplied by hating on twitter" should be a "raised to the power of hating on twitter"

i'm with you all though, i got no twitter acct

Ry4n W. Bradley should look up the first-week sales of Embryonic and Return of the Ankh.