Nate's Blog

The marketing blitz for the Barbie Movie was nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. Every platform seemed to pulse with the allure of Barbie. Impeccably timed cameos, soundtracks, social media plugs, red carpets, and news junkets worked their charm, luring many of us, myself included, back to the theater in the post-COVID era.

Last week I saw an ad that said The Chicks were coming to Simmons Arena. I will not be the first or last Black American with a bad relationship with Country music, but I was intrigued and got tickets to the show. If I ever had the tenacity to sing karaoke, you would hear me sing every single word of "Landslide" by heart. But most importantly,

I won’t lie; I had a blast on the 4th of July this year. It was the first time I forgot about COVID, the insurrection, Donald Trump, Kaepernick, Trayvon Martin, Women’s Rights, mass shootings, and the recent disinformation tweet from our Governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.