Is Will Smith Just America in Costume?
Midlife crisis at the end of an empire.
The Cringe Heard Round the Timeline
I wasn’t trying to watch it.
The clip just popped up
like everything does nowadays
uninvited, algorithm-approved.
Will Smith,
damn near 60,
dressed like he just stepped off the Wild Wild West tour bus,
rapping about how he
“likes pretty girls,
loves pretty girls
vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, lemon…”
I stared at my screen
like i…
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