THE ADVENTURES IN UNPAID INTERNING - WORKING TITLE.

     For about a month or two now, Beyoncé's Black is King "movie-album," which served as a visual representation to her 2019 Lion King album: The Gift has been released. It comprises choreographed dance clips, scenes re-telling the Lion King story but in live-action-to-the-live-action and had voice messages from people talking about what it meant to be black. Now, I'm not reviewing the album  (You can get those from my friend Andrea's blog. His album reviews are dope, and he covers many genres, so if you know any album you're skeptical about listening to, he's your guy for the details. Yes, He's a He) I only want to talk about the one song I sincerely enjoyed watching(No! Not Brown Skin Girl)      In all honesty(and I beat my chest about it), I wasn't a fan of both the Lion King album or the movie. I had felt two emotions: Ennui, for the one too many live-action adaptations to some great classics that Disney had been peddling these d...

        Don't you miss it? The time your naivety was looked over as childish innocence. The period when walking home from school and getting a free ride home from a stranger was not a rare feat. When you could be lazy and carefree without the sinking feeling of your own mortality drowning your every moment. Where in the sake of making money, we resort to deceitful and hurtful means just for the sake of making 'paper'.  Can we go back to the time when passion outweighed profit? And the pursuit of happiness was not tainted by capricious capitalism. Is it a fool's dream to want a world where the means must and should always justify the end.       Don't you miss it? That security blanket you had in the form of a family member, extended or immediate, whom you were sure would protect you as one of theirs. So when did it all go wrong? When did we lose that blanket or rather when did that blanket stop performing it...