Angela Barnes knows that the public service announcement she directed with a group of Atlanta exotic dancers urging people to vote is stirring onversation, but she wonders why she had to come up with the idea.
"It's killing me that somebody hasn't done this before me, like: why?" she told CNN. "It was easy to figure out and I have no background in politics or marketing. So why is it so viral? Why is because, in general, black people are ignored and taken for granted."
With its catchy song composed by Steve G. Lover and produced by Chemist, "Get Your Booty to the Poll" has indeed gone viral. The video has been both hailed for it's promotion of down-ballot issues and criticized for it's use of the scantily clad dancers taking to the pole for a lesson in civics.
Barnes is an Atlanta-based TV director and said the idea came about after she and some other friends in the industry across the country started talking about what they could do in the wake of both the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic.
