R. Kelly - Snake

I felt this was a good video to analyze after watching Sex and the City 2. Though the song has hardly anything to do with race and popular culture, the video says it all. There are many things I felt that should be taken into consideration involving the women being of Middle Eastern descent. First, the women are dancing and gyrating half-naked and yet keep the lower half of their faces covered like the women in Sex and the City 2. It's possible that R. Kelly was trying to show women that they could keep their womanhood and morals (hence the covering of the face) and yet still appreciate their naturally good looking bodies. Also, where it seems that Sex and the City 2 mocks the Middle Eastern culture, this video seems to show appreciation because R. Kelly is in their environment participating in their culture (hence his attendance at the duel, him wearing a head covering, and him riding a camel and not a sportscar). Appreciation of the Middle Eastern Culture is key because this video was shot in 2003, around the time Bush declared War on Iraq.