nope showmanship is cool
but sometimes the music can get overshadowed by 'showmanship'

2 stories come 2 mind with with this. the one is the story about bill graham challenging jimi hendrix. he told him he thought he couldn't perform with out gyrating, tongue-licking, pyrotechnics. this pissed jimi off and he went out and did one of his best shows--just him and his guitar

another example would be p-funks anti-tour. one of their best tours (imho again) because they lost all of their costumes and props and just got onstage and funked.

the moral of the story is, I THINK it would be nice 2 c erykah perform without the costumes and props. just erykah, straight no chaser.