Imagine this. You’re home at your apartment complex, and all of a sudden you smell smoke. You escape with your life. Thankfully, you are safe. A local news camera asks you about the situation, and while you’re still upset over the whole ordeal, you tell the broadcast reporter the whole story.
And a few weeks later … well …
Let me introduce you to Sweet Brown. Thirteen years ago, she survived a house fire in Oklahoma City. And here is her local interview on the event.
Nothing out of the ordinary. Your typical “survivor of a fire talks to reporters” story.
Except … someone heard something in that video. Something that inspired them, in the age of digital editing and sampling … to take Sweet Brown’s interview, and add it to a dance track.
No, seriously. This woman just survived a harrowing experience … and a couple of months later, her interview became a viral video. And this was back in the days with the Numa Numa guy and the Chocolate Rain guy and the rest of those “nowhere to viral sensation” guys.
Yep. Fourteen years ago, we were … ahem … blessed with the dance track “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That.”
Wow. There’s the groove to make you move.
Sweet Brown enjoyed her 15 minutes of fame, she appeared on various TV interview shows. The television station in Oklahoma City that originally interviewed her brought her and her son to the studio to talk about the viral video.
Sweet Brown would later go national; here she is on The View.
Sweet Brown even did some local commercials. Here’s one of her commercials, this is for a used car sales lot.
And if your tooth hurts … go to the dental care experts that Sweet Brown endorses.
And if your car breaks down while you’re on your way to your dentist … you may be entitled to compensation.
Wow. A time when the internet was a place where people could smile and have fun.
Fourteen years later, these memes are still kinda cute in and of themselves. Maybe it’s because they’re part of a simpler time. An era where one didn’t have to “doom-scroll” at 3:00 a.m. to deal with whatever crazy danger exists in our world.
Ain’t nobody got time for that. 😀
Chuck The Writer 
Still hilarious after all these years. Back in the day, that ‘dance track’ made me howl! I must have listened to it at least a dozen times, and I shared the living daylights out of it. Not long after I even bought my grandsons T-shirts with “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” emblazoned on them.
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