Twenty One Pilots performs Level of Concern on The Tonight Show: At Home Edition.
The rise of remotely filmed performances has given artists a negotiating tool that could last well after COVID-19.
For much of the past year,
Adrian L. Miller has arranged for his clients, including R&B singer-songwriter Mereba and jazzy instrumentalist Cassowary, to perform on squeaky clean private stages with minimal staff and musicians. Then he noticed something: It s relatively cheap to create bare-bones remote performances and beam them out as livestreams, sponsored productions and TV performances.
When the pandemic ends, why not continue this way?
Twenty One Pilots performs Level of Concern on The Tonight Show: At Home Edition.
The rise of remotely filmed performances has given artists a negotiating tool that could last well after COVID-19.
For much of the past year,
Adrian L. Miller has arranged for his clients, including R&B singer-songwriter Mereba and jazzy instrumentalist Cassowary, to perform on squeaky clean private stages with minimal staff and musicians. Then he noticed something: It s relatively cheap to create bare-bones remote performances and beam them out as livestreams, sponsored productions and TV performances.
When the pandemic ends, why not continue this way?
How Dolly Parton became a secular American saint
Why everyone loves Dolly now.
Dolly Parton at the Mill Run Theater in Niles, Illinois, in 1977.
Paul Natkin/Getty Images
Few people are. Dolly Parton is in the midst of a career revival that has seen her hailed as a kind of secular country-pop saint. And what’s not to love about Dolly?
Dolly is the living legend who sells out arena tours in her 70s. She’s the songwriting genius who wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same day. In recent decades, feminists have begun to reclaim her as a feminist icon. She is an impeccably dressed glamour queen, a business titan whose brand includes her own theme park, a philanthropist whose literacy program has sent free books to millions of children, and on top of all that she helped fund Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine and then refused to jump the line to get a dose early. She is so beloved that WNYC devoted a full podcast series to investigating how a single figure coul
The Jason Alexander Hoodie Tide Super Bowl 55 Commercial
Sony/ATV landed a dozen synchs, followed by Warner Chappell and UMPG, during a game in which some major brands sat out.
If any Super Bowl ad summed up the past year for synch placements, it was the ScottsMiracle-Gro spot starring
John Travolta and his daughter,
Ella, recreating his iconic dance steps from
Grease in the backyard. It was Scotts first-ever ad for the big game, largely because the company gained 20 million customers during the pandemic, and it was an homage to TikTok, on which the underlying track, Surface s Sunday Best, went viral last summer.