The charm of last night's Elton John-hosted coronavirus benefit was that none of the stars looked or sounded their best. Rob Sheffield dissects Elton's Living Room Concert for America
relief by singing in homemade videos from their quarantine zones all over the country. As Elton said, “Our concerns are a mile high, but we hope this bit of entertainment can feed and fuel your soul, and maybe bring you some strength and a touch of joy to prepare for the days to come.” By the end of the show, he’d swiped his kid’s keyboard in time to do an all-too-brief snippet of “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.
The charm of the show was its amateurish just-winging-it quality. None of the stars looked or sounded their best — that was the point. Instead, it was touching to see them suffer from relatable “I look like crap on Zoom” anxiety: Tim McGraw covering his head in a ski cap. Lady Gaga hiding behind shades, in sweatpants and with a ponytail.
Inevitably, it became a show about seeing where these people were trapped — the quarantine equivalent of real-estate porn. The Backstreet Boys sang “I Want It That Way” from their five different houses — Brian Littrell has the most Backstreet-tastic of pads, with a gigantic chandelier and a couch full of impressively fluffy throw pillows. Kevin Richardson got his kids into the act — one played drums, one played guitar, both wore BSB T-shirts.
As the night began, the MVP was Gal Gadot — she wan’t on the show, but she took the initiative last week in neutralizing the “Imagine” menace, always a threat during a time of global crisis. After Gal’s celebrity “Imagine” singalong went viral, it looked like she’d done us all a huge public service by ensuring that nobody would try tackling “Imagine” again for a while. However, a team of doctors sang it, and if the docs want to sing it during a pandemic, you better let them. Nice try, Gal.
Many of the performers didn’t perform — Lady Gaga and Lizzo declined to sing at all, though Elton tried to tempt Lizzo with his rendition of “Juice.” Sam Smith, Ellen DeGeneres, Demi Lovato, and H.E.R. appeared as well. Nobody got too heavy, not with the news getting worse by the hour; right before the broadcast, reports broke about the
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