Instead of a full-length essay, I’m sharing a list of my burning Black beauty and pop culture questions. Let’s get right into it:
Why are so many millennials on TikTok obsessed with having people guess our ages? Almost every week there’s a trending song used as the soundtrack to videos of women telling us we wouldn’t believe it, but they’re 37 and aren’t rotting corpses. What is going on??
When will the XXL give us an all-female Freshman Class? As a note, XXL featured four female rappers (the most ever featured on the list) in 2021.
Where are all the mud masks? Shopping for mud or clay-based masks is getting difficult. It’s also a bit confusing because there was such a fuss about sheets masks not being biodegradable around 2021 and yet I am overwhelmed by options I don’t want. Although I do have my eye on the Reusable Magic Silicon Sheet Mask.
Are you watching Jerrod Carmichael’s new show and if yes, how did you survive watching his interaction with Tyler the Creator? I almost did not.
Why is DJ Khaled trying to sell us solid gold toothbrushes? And how do we survive the capitalist hellscape where companies try to convince us that “gold-infused toothpaste and mouthwash” is aspirational?
An Answer:
Why is Cowboy Carter so long? I have a hard rule that no album needs to have more than 15 tracks ever because we only have a finite amount of time on this planet and I don’t want to spend it listening to 30 anythings in a row. However, in the case of Cowboy Carter, we needed all 27 tracks because Bey said so. We are welcome.