Pibert, Johann2022-04-252022-04-252022http://www.ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffk-journal&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=165https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19226The reinvention of virtual concerts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic experienced a tremendous surge of innovation during 2020, culminating in Kylie Minogue’s Infinite Disco and Dua Lipa’s Studio 2054. This article offers a comparison of the two concert livestreams, which is already formally apparent because of their common theme, timely proximity, and the cooperation on the track “Real Groove.” However, a film-psychological analysis with particular attention to the concert beginnings reveals aesthetic differences that are essential in terms of the concert experience. Specifically, for the reception situation of a lockdown, it is shown that high levels of intimacy, coherence, and self-reflexivity concerning the pandemic lead to a higher degree of synchronization between the concert and its spectator(s) and accordingly to a stronger intertwining of concert and reception aesthetics. Thus, who has the ‘real groove’?engCOVID-19concert livestreamaesthetic79110.25969/mediarep/182392512-8086