For the uninitiated: back in May, the weekend after Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police and sparked a summer of righteous worldwide protests against racial injustice, Guetta, the wildly successful French DJ and producer behind the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling," took the stage for United at Home, a virtual COVID-relief fundraiser. While none of these are the first thing I notice whenever David Guetta’s hilarious, ghastly tribute to George Floyd enters my feed for the umpteenth time - they’re necessary context to why it remains unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Virtual concerts pose no risk to supplanting the real thing. Life-sized screens that pass for a studio audience, quadrupling the width of a human face, remain uncanny. Zoom calls are a reliably stilted, glitchy replacement for being in the same room as another person. Nine months into this thing, and the makeshift solutions designed to get us through the lumbering, fraught early days of the pandemic are still here, and no closer to feeling adequate.
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