Leo checked the live dashboard on his laptop. The viewer count was ticking up. People from Berlin, Tokyo, Chicago, and London were flooding the chat, dropping emojis of lightning bolts and fire. He flipped the cue switch.
Leo watched the chat scroll erupt at blinding speed. Thousands of miles away, people were pushing furniture out of the way, turning off their lights, and turning their isolated spaces into personal dance floors. For the next six minutes, the frantic, hyper-speed rhythm of the 2020 remix obliterated the quiet anxiety of the pandemic. It was a digital uprising of sound.
He slammed the fader up. The kick drum hit like a physical blow.