What one is already wondering these days: does it really have to be that an outstanding composer like Paul McCartney together with these riot senile Rolling Stones makes music? He is to be heard as a bass player on their next album. Will he even perform with them soon? Isn’t that insanely dangerous? For example, if 80-year-old McCartney breaks something on the way to the microphone, who will bear the costs? And who bears the consequences should he be infected by Mick Jagger, 79, whatever? Aren’t digital meetings much more useful than direct contact, especially for older musicians?
The Chinese Jiang Zhongli has developed a kissing app. Jiang, so reports CNN, have created a mobile phone attachment with which a kiss via silicone lips can also be transmitted over the Internet in a deceptively real way. A great invention! On the one hand, people are always tormented by this tiresome longing for immediacy and closeness. On the other hand, it harbors enormous dangers (see above). Better off to the Chinese cuddly metaverse, with the kissing app and silicone clone.
At this point, one would like to shout out to Mr. McCartney for good reason: think about who you unpack your guitar next to. It’s better to stay at home in the stair lift and let yourself be pampered via the Internet. Apart from that the Liverpoolers beatles always made much better music than those awful hooligans from Dartford anyway, the future doesn’t belong to them Rolling Stones. She belongs to Rolling Clones.
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