Erykah Badu’s acceptance speech for her Fashion Icon Award at the 2024 CFDA’s. Andre 3000 presented her the award and I started crying. it felt full circle in a way… even down to their collaborative performance back in September. Both are icons who stay true to themselves and have had a huge impact on me. Since her world debut in 1997, I’ve seen her mindset and fashion sense play a huge role in my mom (who was also a brand new mother at the time) and our home. Her mindset, life philosophy, and fashion sense then trickled down to me naturally as life went on. Seeing Badu perform live with my mom in 2017 was one of the greatest highlights of my life. I cried there too lol
This fashion award seems long overdue, but it came right on time. Ms. Badu has shown true style transcendence with time. I’m posting both her recent breakfast club interview and acceptance speech because she explains her relationship with fashion in such an honest a future-forward way– down to the creation of her beautiful headpiece which started out as an ai 3D rendering. The “analog girl in a digital world”. She and Andre both are perfect examples of how to EVOLVE… as people and as artists. As an alien flute player myself, I love the direction Andre has taken with his music creation. His latest album “New Blue Sun” always gets played when I need to declutter my mind and just BE. Maybe I’ll make another post about his fashion influence– hopefully one day he’ll get an award too because it’s well deserved.
I’ll never miss a Badu interview. She’s the funniest and always drops pieces of wisdom in between the lines (the sagittarius in me loves that). This interview was so good; watch the whole thing! My favorite moment is specifically from 47:54 to 53:07; which inspired this blog post. As an artist, and even as a person, sometimes you have to let things go. Whether it be your creations, people, or even situations that may happen to you. When you harp on certain things, or feel the need to “own” something or someone, it’s hard to truly get what you want. Let it go and let things come to you.
Much love to the Goddess, Erykah Badu, and an eternal thank you for all you’ve done (and are doing) for the world and for artists.