Sunday's one-hour fundraising special, hosted by Elton John, featured at-home performances by Mariah Carey, Billie Eilish, the Backstreet Boys and Dave Grohl.
. In addition to the aforementioned acts, the special featured performances — each shot in a living room or bedroom or some such — by the Backstreet Boys, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Tim McGraw, Sam Smith, Demi Lovato and H.E.R.
It’s a virus-specific approach to the kind of pop-star do-gooder-ism that in previous crises would lead to a telethon or a live benefit gig . This time, of course, those types of large public gatherings are part of the problem, which is how McGraw ended up delivering his song “Something Like That” while perched on the diving board of his enormous swimming pool.
For pop fans accustomed to the solidarity that can arise from an in-person audience, this format clearly has its limitations. And Fox and iHeart didn’t help matters by making this show out of taped performances; because the music wasn’t live , you didn’t get to enjoy the thrill of artists working without a net.
Still, the thing had its charms, not least among them the discovery that Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys keeps a branded BSB pinball machine in his home. Grohl sounded great in a solo-acoustic take on “My Hero”; Eilish, even slumped on a lumpy sofa, was as precisely nuanced a vocalist as ever. And Carey earned her diva self-treatment with the smiley exuberance we’ve come to rely on her for.As host, John claimed at the beginning that he’d happily play a song himself ...
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