Musicians such as Coldplay, Yungblud, and Keith Urban are live-streaming performances to help ease people’s boredom due to self-isolation. Coldplay’s Chris Martin played an impromptu set on Instagram Live, and Keith Urban went live with his wife, Nicole Kidman, in the background. Yungblud did an hour-long show from LA, which included a cooking segment and a drinking game, as BBC detailed:
His concert was pulled together in just 72 hours, after his upcoming tour was postponed due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
The hour-long live-stream also included a cooking segment and a comedy drinking game featuring actress Bella Thorne and rapper Machine Gun Kelly (the beer they chose was, of course, Corona).
The star said he wanted to "give people a bit of positivity, laughter, and emotion" in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic, but it also helped him stay positive.
"Having the opportunity to connect with fans taken away from me wasn't gonna be an option," he told Vulture. "It's a time to not give up and think out of the box - out of bad situations and despair comes incredible art, no matter what form that may be."
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