Fuck it, mask off! In the last couple of weeks, in between buying a portable UV light sanitizer and texting my dad about whether viruses can travel through an HVAC unit, I have been at home rapping Future’s 2017 hit “Mask Off” to myself.
The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” and “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by the Police are also in constant rotation, all courtesy of a Spotify playlist called “COVID-19 Quarantine Party.” Another current favorite playlist is “Coronavirus Beats to Panic To” (which ironically includes Coldplay’s “Don’t Panic”).
Another one jokes it “could go viral,” and yet another boasts that it has beats “sicker than the coronavirus.” In the past few weeks, pandemic playlists have become ubiquitous, with celebrities, government