Blindfold Me - Music Video

Music Video

The sexually-charged video for "Blindfold Me", shot in September 2006 in Los Angeles, California, and directed by Marc Klasfeld—who had previously worked with Kelis on "Bossy" earlier that year—, premiered on BET's Access Granted on September 6, 2006. It takes place at night, and it opens with Kelis, wearing something like a black swim suit beneath a skimpy, hooded red dress, black heeled shoes, chunkey bangles, an ankle chain, a thick, relatively tightly fitting gold necklace and sunglasses. She is walking through a dimly lit parking lot while looking around. A man, also hooded in a black overcoat, who we might speculate Kelis was expecting to encounter, suddenly comes up behind her covering her eyes with his hand. Kelis says "blindfold me" and in the next shot we see her sitting in a large apparently empty warehouse or parking lot, without her sunglasses, blindfolded and with her hands tied together behind the chair's back. The hooded figure reappears, tossing Kelis' hood back and the video continues to illustrate Kelis' lack of all the resources, freedoms and powers that she might otherwise have been able to access and her physical inability prevent the hooded figure from doing whatever he wants. The video shows several scenes with hooded figure, glass of water in hand, dripping water past Kelis' up turned mouth letting the drops fall on her upper chest with the video alternately flicking scenes, lit with red light, of a free Kelis within the experience of the light surf of a sandy beach. Other scenes show the hooded figure slowly taking ice from the glass and, with Kelis bent forward, drawing the ice down her spine with the video alternatly flicking to scenes of Kelis in a blue corset with long, white fur trimming in a form of ice grotto in which Kelis is free to touch, view, blow onto and otherwise experience a sculpted block of ice. The hooded figure brings black panther into the room holding the panther's head away from Kelis by means of its tether and a now shoeless Kelis (how she got her shoes off is anyone's guess) is able to run her foot down the panther's back. The video alternately flicking to scenes of Kelis in a jungle-type setting in the animal / explorer role wearing a Leopard-patterned outfit, hair extensions of black plumage and black gloves. The image of the seated, sightless, tied, helpless Kelis in basic surroundings and chain type jewellery is further contrasted by images of Kelis lying down on black velvet, wearing a black silk top, black shoes and a large quantity of clear, white gemstones on that decorate her neck, hands, navel, the belt section of her bikini bottom and the handle of the riding crop in her hands.

Later on, the man is revealed to be Nas, who unties Kelis' hands, has her stand and proceeds to perform his rap segment while she, still blindfolded, dances suggestively near the standing and then sitting Naz. At the ending, Nas walks Kelis back to the same parking lot she was in at the beginning and then disappears. She takes her blindfold off so as to finally reveal her eyes, takes note of her surrounding situation and, smiling to herself, she walks away.