(I am old.)
And then this weekend I’m ashamed to say I saw Tones and I in Fortnite too.
I’m ashamed for complicated reasons.
Ariana Grande was a properly stunning event, a live confection that absolutely dazzled.
But the event was very different anyway.
You could also replay it and (as I discovered) replay it.
And crucially, this: you got stuff for doing so.
And an emote, which I am pretty sure I will never use.
And that’s not a cheap dig at Tones and I.
In fact, music aside, the Tones and I thing is still beautifully done.
At another you move up and down Escher landscape and through keyholes.
Fortnite’s new tornados get a look-in too.
You will glide through the whole thing rapt, communing with your musical heroes.
This is me and people like me.
People who are cheesing Tones and I for XP.
Not because I had listened to Tones and I three times.
And I worry this is the Metaverse.
And they’re all there because they heard there might be a free emote.
