On March 13 , 2010 , Badu filmed an impromptu music video for " Window Seat " in the Dealey Plaza historic district of Dallas , Texas . In the video , Badu is seen walking the streets of Dealey Plaza in Dallas , slowly stripping to the nude , before being shot by an unseen assassin . On her Twitter feed , she stated that the music video " was shot guerrilla style , no crew , 1 take , no closed set , no warning , 2 min. , Downtown Dallas , then ran like hell " . Badu was inspired by indie rock duo Matt & Kim 's video for the song " Lessons Learned " , viewing it as " the bravest , most liberating thing I ’ve ever seen two people do ... I wanted to dedicate this contagious act of liberation and freedom to them . I hoped it would become something contagious that people would want to do in some way or another " . Badu has expressed that her video is a criticism of the psychological concept groupthink . On the video 's location , Badu expressed that Matt & Kim 's video and its " monumental " Times Square setting influenced her to film in Dealey Plaza , which is known as the site of President John F. Kennedy 's assassination . She viewed the historic district 's grassy knoll as a monumental place in Dallas and that she " tied it in a way that compared that assassination to the character assassination one would go through after showing his or her self completely . That ’s exactly the action that I wanted to display " . After she collapses to the ground in the video , blue blood spills out to form the word " groupthink " , after which Badu 's voiceover says : Badu intended for the assassination scene to represent character assassination by groupthink . Prior to the filming of the official music video , a video teaser of " Window Seat " was featured on Badu 's official website around early March , which begins with a shot of Badu 's boarding pass of the flight she had booked on the fictional Amerykah Airlines , and mainly features her putting on make-up at a make-up table . A second version of the video , entitled " Window Seat ( Reexamined ) " , was posted on her website and features the original video in reverse ; the ending monologue with Badu 's voiceover was repositioned to the start of the footage . A music video for the song 's official remix , featuring rapper Rick Ross , was shot during May 2010
President John F. Kennedy 's assassination
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Window Seat (song)