Author Archives: Ben Wilder

The Samsung Nature Boy Galaxy Fold 6 Bird Commercial

There’s a “nature boy” in this commercial but before you start jumping from the top rope, spoiler alert it’s not Ric Flair. Woooooo!!! But also booooooo 😦 … The Samsung nature boy is walking around with a nature girl when he whips out his Galaxy Fold6 to identify a bird because the display is inContinue reading “The Samsung Nature Boy Galaxy Fold 6 Bird Commercial”

That time Taylor Swift sang the National Anthem

Country music has some strange things going on these days. On one end you have the more traditional sounding hitmaker Lainey Wilson (check out my take on her video for “4x4xU”) but at the very same time, there’s the TikTok propelled “Bar Song” by Shaboozy and the country song nobody was really asking for inContinue reading “That time Taylor Swift sang the National Anthem”

American Music in Other Countries

I’m starting this post out with a mention of Morgan Wallen but if you don’t like him or don’t know who he is, hang tight, I’m just using him as an example of a more general idea about music. Earlier this month, Morgan set the record for the biggest country music concert in the UKContinue reading “American Music in Other Countries”

Tom MacDonald’s New Song About Trump Will Give You Chills…

After the Twin Towers fell in New York City, country icon Alan Jackson released a song that encapsulated so much of the feelings and reactions of middle America. As I remember that song, my brain doesn’t really separate it from the day of terror, as if they happened on back to back days. But itContinue reading “Tom MacDonald’s New Song About Trump Will Give You Chills…”