BONUS: DJ D-Nice and Melissa Etheridge encourage everyone to #StayHome to slow the spread of coronavirus
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
4.6 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to our special coverage. And now we turn to something a little uplifting. |
| 0:04.9 | Surely we can all feel how this pandemic is reshaping the way we live. Once packed destinations |
| 0:09.5 | from Times Square to the French Quarter are empty, barren. The people who used to gather their |
| 0:15.9 | sheltering at home, while medical experts note this new normal is obviously stressful. |
| 0:21.5 | In fact, they formally recommend we seek out fun and connection. |
| 0:25.2 | CDC guidelines suggest not only social distancing, but also that you curb stress by doing things |
| 0:31.3 | you enjoy, which happens to bring us to this much nicer, happy story alongside the pandemic we're living through. |
| 0:40.0 | It's one you may have heard about. |
| 0:41.7 | The hugely popular virtual parties hosted online by D. Nice, a 49-year-old Bronx DJ, |
| 0:47.1 | with decades of music experience. |
| 0:48.5 | Now, he has been live streaming. |
| 0:50.5 | His DJ sets that you see right there from his kitchen. |
| 0:54.0 | And it took off, bringing hundreds of thousands of people together in one virtual room, millions over several days. |
| 1:00.5 | What started out organically ballooned and went viral, fans call it club quarantine, |
| 1:05.7 | and it beat out a lot of bad news to trend at one point number one across the United States on social media, including |
| 1:12.1 | virtual visits from Will Smith to J-Lo to Kamala Harris to Joe Biden to Oprah, D. Nice, welcoming |
| 1:18.2 | the unity and calling out different people as they pop up within his virtual music room, |
| 1:24.0 | including the rapper MC Light. |
| 1:27.3 | We're all coming together tonight. |
| 1:29.7 | This is the biggest party in the world. |
| 1:33.6 | Biggest party in the world. |
| 1:35.4 | What's up, everybody? |
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