What Survives the Fire: Kim Burrell, Tamar Braxtoon, Orlando Brown, and the Performance of Pain
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What Survives the Fire: Kim Burrell, Tamar Braxtoon, Orlando Brown, and the Performance of Pain
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They make us laugh. They make us cringe. Sometimes they make us mad.
But what do Kim Burrell, Tamar Braxton, and Orlando Brown all have in common?
They’ve all been crowned “too much.”
Too dramatic. Too messy. Too unpredictable.
And yet… we can’t look away.
In this episode of Overthinking with Karmen, your Overthinker-in-Chief Karmen Michael Smith spirals into the performance of Black pain—on pulpits, on stages, on timelines—and asks:
What happens when the armor becomes the identity?
From the release of his new cinematic sermon What Survives the Fire, to conversations about persona, prophecy, and perception—Karmen reflects on what it costs to be seen, who gets grace, and who gets discarded.
This isn’t just about celebrity.
It’s about all of us.
And the lies we’ve learned to live out loud.