When we began lockdown a year ago, a popular meme went around informing people that William Shakespeare wrote King Lear while isolating amid the bubonic plague.
As weeks and months went by, the meme was repurposed to compare writing King Lear to learning to bake bread orto putting on pants in the morning.
It's still too early to tell how many great works of art have gestated during the COVID-19 lockdown, but I think we can mostly agree that whether you've spent these months attempting to be innovative or merely consistently cogent, creativity has been a grind.
Alone Together, a new documentary from directing duo Bradley&Pablo, is not the King Lear of COVID-19, nor probably is the Charli XCX album it chronicles.
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