"In My Feelings"

                A 68-year-old Democratic lawmaker recently posted a video of herself “dancing” with two staffers to Drake’s new song, “In My Feelings.” Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) put up the roughly 30-second video (in which she steps out of a white car wearing an all-white suit) on Twitter to try to connect with Millennials. In a post accompanying the video, Beatty wrote: “I don’t know who Keke is but I want her to vote next November because this @WhiteHouse has me and many other Americans ‘in my feelings.’ #KekeMustVote #InMyFeelingsChallenge.” 

               Unfortunately, she misspelled the 4-letter name of the song’s cryptic “Kiki” in her Tweets, instead referring to “Keke.” Well, she got two out of four letters correct. That’s 50%. Not bad for public school education or government work, I guess. Though the post is indecipherable, it may yet be effective. We’re all about feelings now, accuracy and reason be damned. Washington and Lincoln may not have “approved this message,” as Beatty expressly did at the end of the video, but that may be precisely the point.

              Here are the relevant passages/stanzas in the song that Beatty is attempting to use for political advantage:

  Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?
  Say you'll never ever leave from beside me
  'Cause I want you, and I need you
  And I'm down for you always
  Kb, do you love me? Are you riding?
  Say you'll never ever leave
  From beside me, 'cause I want ya, and I

  Bring that ass, bring that ass, bring that ass back
  B-bring that ass, bring that ass, bring that ass back
  Shawty say the nigga that she with can't hit
  But shawty, I'ma hit it, hit it like I can't miss
  (Clap that ass, you're the only one I love)
  (Clap that ass, clap, clap)
  Bring that ass back
  (Clap that ass, you're the only one I love)
  (Let's go, let's go)
  Bring that ass back

 What if Donald Trump made or posted this video? “Nigga?” #MeToo?

There are no words to adequately describe the words that make up this song’s “lyrics.” There are no words to adequately describe the decline of our culture-- and ability to reason. Intellect, discipline and effort are ridiculed, while ignorance and base emotion are celebrated and rewarded.

Oh well. Screw it. I’m In My Feelings.