It's the opening track from the Boston band's second album, Gossamer, and it follows in the anthemic tradition of their 2009 breakout, Manners: bouncy synths, relentlessly stomping rhythm, plenty of whoa-oh-ohs. Passion Pit are set to perform their single "Take a Walk" at the ceremony. The ephemerality of it all makes the future seem hopelessly irrelevant. Joke-song outfit Key of Awesome performs "Eat It, Don't Tweet It", an R&B-laced parody about how people shouldn't post pictures of their meals on Twitter: "I'm just a guy with a camera/ In your feed/ With my food as a canvas-a." At one point, a faux-obituary montage honoring all the defunct internet memes of the past 12 months- Angelina Jolie's leg, the Tupac hologram, "Tanning Mom"- flashes across a big screen. Winners range from Björk to that "Shit Girls Say" video to an animated cat with a Pop-Tart body that surfs a never-ending rainbow. The event tries to squeeze the absurdly infinite scope of the internet into something that can be quantified and judged in under three hours. It's pouring rain when I get to Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom for this year's Webby Awards. Illustration by We Buy Your Kids photos by Jason Nocito
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