{"id":9613,"date":"2024-07-30T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khabarok.com\/entertainment\/9613\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:06:33","slug":"lady-gagas-opening-ceremony-performance-for-the-paris-olympics-2024-was-prerecorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khabarok.com\/?p=9613","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga\u2019s opening ceremony performance for the Paris Olympics 2024 was prerecorded"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lady Gaga kicked off the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony in dazzling fashion on Friday, but her performance was actually pre-recorded. Despite appearing to power through technical difficulties and inclement weather, Gaga\u2019s set along the Seine River was filmed hours earlier.<\/p>\n

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The Grammy Award-winning artist performed a tribute to French star Zizi Jeanmaire with her rendition of \u201cMon Truc en Plumes.\u201d According to the Associated Press<\/i>, Gaga was seen warming up onstage about three hours before the ceremony began and performed for about an hour before exiting the stage and waving to fans.<\/p>\n

Olympic and Paralympic opening ceremony choreographer Maud le Pladec explained the decision to pre-record the performance to Variety<\/i>. \u201cFor safety reasons, we had to pre-record late in the afternoon, once we knew for sure that it was going to rain \u2013 we had minute-by-minute updates, we had never watched the weather forecast so closely in our lives,\u201d said Pladec.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe assessed that it was going to be too dangerous for performers, even with a few drops of rain. [Gaga] wanted to do it absolutely so we preferred to pre-record it rather than cancel it,\u201d Pladec continued. \u201cThe soil would have been slippery. She was wearing heels, very near the water, there were stairs\u2026 We had to be extremely cautious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the performance, Gaga watched the ceremony from her dressing room before returning to her hotel. She later shared a statement about the experience on social media. <\/p>\n

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I feel so completely grateful to have been asked to open the Paris @Olympics<\/a> 2024 this year. I am also humbled to be asked by the Olympics organizing committee to sing such a special French song\u2014a song to honor the French people and their tremendous history of art, music, and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/FMNyiosHUR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) July 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAlthough I am not a French artist, I have always felt a very special connection with French people and singing French music\u2014I wanted nothing more than to create a performance that would warm the heart of France, celebrate French art and music, and on such a momentous occasion remind everyone of one of the most magical cities on earth\u2014Paris,\u201d Gaga added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n