Not since Ms. Jackson’s nasty nipples touched down at Super Bowl XXXVIII has a black woman’s beautiful body been so… evening news. Of course, by now you too have been caught up in the viral swarm that is Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” . You’ve watched it, analyzed it, discussed it, Tweeted it, saw it on CNN, read about it in the Times and every single blog you’ve visited in the past week, and watched it again and said, “Dayum!” when her sweats fall below her hips.

Of course, exposure gets maximum exposure. That’s obvious. But here are some things I haven’t seen uncovered:

* The fact that there is an actual song accompanying the visual. A pretty decent one, too. Interestingly enough though, even as a Badu fan, I wasn’t compelled to hit up iTunes off the strength of the single…until I saw the video. It gave me hope that her entire album would be as gutsy as that stroll through Dealey Plaza in broad ass daylight.

* Why are some journalists mystified by the fact that E. Badu is even remotely familiar with the historical significance of the location of the video “shoot”? Not only is she a Dallas native, but she an artist who’s proven herself rather socially if not historically conscious; which I guess I shouldn’t expect them to know. But she’s also an adult woman with children who presumably passed U.S. History and Government class and therefore has heard of President Kennedy and knows he got murked.

* Children have seen naked women before. And will again. Consider this a teaching moment.

* Isn’t dropping an album inherently a publicity stunt?

* I know Easter’s coming up, but the assassination of JFK is not a metaphor for Calvary. He is not Jesus, and there is no “sacrilege” in Badu’s symbolism. It’s art.

* Speaking of symbolism, was the video really that deep that it requires anyone other than the artist to decode the meaning? I think Badu captured it all quite succinctly in the video…and then in ALL the interviews she’s given since, AND on her Twitter page when she said: “At the point one reaches an individual idea and sheds him / herself of learned behavior, or evolves to a way of thinking that the group misunderstands, refuses to understand or is threatened by as a whole, the single minded individual is in danger. Fear arises & even if the point made by the individual is as simple as can be, even spelled out or stated intelligently 2 or 3 things can/will happen quite interesting. Let’s see what happens next.”

But what is most fascinating to me is that no one seems to be mentioning the fact that the viral aftermath is the exact manifestation of the fictional bullet lodged in her temple. That art is a subjective endeavor to be interpreted individually. That evolution and creativity are often ostracized. That tits and ass cause crowds to gather and speak in unison.

If not for going one-shot live, muff out and thick, in front of a world that assassinates free-thinking, intellectual, proud, courageous, black, nude, unpermed women for sport; respect the fact that Erykah Badu has manipulated the laws of groupthink (aka YouTube, Twitter, etc.) to get you to watch and grouplisten.