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    Music videos in the age of quarantine: Zoom boxes, hazmat suits and sad twerking

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times May 13, 2020 5 minutes

    Cages don't come more gilded than Drake's in the music video for his song "Toosie Slide."

    Released in early April, a couple of weeks after fears of the coronavirus triggered shelter-in-place orders around much of the world, the clip with more than 85 million views on YouTube follows the superstar Canadian rapper as he roams his colossal Toronto home wearing gloves, a face mask - and, one presumes, the unworried expression of a man who expects to ride out quarantine in splendor.

    Here he is fondling an MTV Video Music Award in a trophy room that resembles a jewelry store; there he is pausing to take a seat on a marble-topped kitchen island bigger than some studio apartments.

    The opulent display - "overwhelming high luxury" is how Drake described the place to Architectural Digest - makes for a marked contrast with another video

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