As so many young people across the country have missed out on graduation due to the coronavirus pandemic, stars like Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Camila Cabello have come together to put on a special show just for them – and it all started with the incomparable Lizzo.
The celebrated artist, who has been using her platform recently to be a loud and proud voice in the George Floyd protests, performed Edward Elgar’s iconic Pomp and Circumstance on her flute to kick off the livestream. “Now, let’s turn it up,” she said to the graduates watching from home, as a cavalcade of musicians from the New York Philharmonic playing violins, cellos, trumpets, and everything in-between, rocked out to a sick, sick beat for graduates.