Maybe phones at concerts aren’t such a bad thing. The existential gripes from older generations about the sanctity of live show experiences seem to misunderstand the moment. For a generation whose existence is mostly, if not entirely, lived through devices, peering through the hypnotic glow of their phone screens at a picture-in-picture playback of the events unfolding in front of them is an extension, or even an evolution, of the experience. I’m in the audience at Fakemink ’s tour stop in New York City, submerged in the crowd consisting mainly of young people in their teens and early twenties, with the occasional older adult — designers for the streetwear brand Supreme, the model Alex Cosani, underground rap influencer Chris Heyn Jr., age 30, known as “unc” to his fans on TikTok — and e

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