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Katy Perry, Justin Trudeau And The Collapse Of Performative Politics
Justin Bieber’s voice drifts through the air. A wall of concert-goers forms around the stage. The scene is rich with celebrities, influencers, and a veritable who’s who that has descended upon the desert in California.
By Emily Osment Davis4 min read
Against this backdrop, enter our Coachella hero and heroine. A couple so demure, so unassuming, calmly poised amid the chaos. The man in a backwards cap and light-wash jeans scarfs down his ramen noodles. The woman, jacket wrapped round her waist, shovels an unidentifiable finger food down her gullet. Precious moments captured in their oh-so-candid TMZ photo. Unified, the couple model their red plastic cups in frame, as if to say, ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’