bassie said:Yea, I saw that and she paid her a bunch of compliments, too. Probably in an attempt to calm things down. I don't get all the @ and # business.
FL fucked up and Badu isn't really helping things. She's got a point, but makes it hard to be on her side.
OK, sorry, I wasn't sure whether you caught that.
The @ prefix is how you talk to someone on Twitter - ampersand followed by whatever their handle is. By @'ing a bunch of other people apart from Badu, Michelle Martin-Coyne effectively copied them into her and Badu's conversation.
Hashtagging something - # - is a way of including your conversation within a broader discussion on a given topic. If you were watching the Grammys, for example, you might add the hashtag #grammys or #grammys2012 if wanted your tweets to be visible to anyone else tracking the same topic. In this case you might use the tag #baduVsFL or something.
I'm a fan of both Badu and the Lips, but I'd say she has the moral high ground here, so maybe she's entitled to salty-as-I-wanna-be priviliges for a while. Seems to me that someone in the Lips camp (presumably Wayne Coyne) saw the Window Seat video and took that to mean Badu wouldn't have a problem with being butt-nekkid on camera. Well, maybe not when she's controlling the artistic direction of it. This goes way beyond just being a naked woman covered in corn syrup and enters Playboy Channel territory. It's cheesy as fuck. Moreover, Badu makes it clear she had her doubts (a point nobody appears to be disputing), but nevertheless she gave Coyne the benefit of that doubt on more than one occasion. Likewise her sister, who I'm sure participated of her own volition. I'm certainly not going to assume she was strongarmed into it on some Nomi Malone shit.
