There’s a meme format going around where an image of an odd-looking fellow – the original being Wayne Rooney in a vacuum-tight suit – is paired with the caption: “No one has ever looked like this before.” Even in an age of endless bootlegs, remakes and copycats, the shock of the new is reassuringly enduring.
And until this year, surely, no one has ever thought they were watching the greatest pop performance in the world as a singer and eight dancers zipped around the stage on micro-scooters while making bunny-ear gestures and shouting: “Chicken teriyaki!”
