All eyes were on Lady Gaga when she performed at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, where she sang a rendition of Mon truc es plumes by Zizi Jeanmarie. However, drama and controversy arose when it came out that the performance had been pre-recorded. But why did this actually happen when the rest of the Olympics opening ceremony was live – and Lady Gaga is known to never pre-record or lip sync? The Olympics choreographer has released a statement explaining the entire situation with why Lady Gaga actually had to be pre-recorded.
‘We had to be cautious’
I feel so completely grateful to have been asked to open the Paris @Olympics 2024 this year. I am also humbled to be asked by the Olympics organizing committee to sing such a special French song—a song to honor the French people and their tremendous history of art, music, and… pic.twitter.com/FMNyiosHUR
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) July 26, 2024
Maud Le Pladec, the choreographer for the Olympics and Paralympics opening ceremonies, just revealed that Lady Gaga was intended to perform live but it was changed to pre-recorded at the very last minute for safety reasons. The weather in Paris has been dreadful at the start of the Olympics, with torrential rain.
Gaga performed on stairs on the Seine, on a floating platform. Le Pladec explained “Unfortunately, it was the only [performance] that, for safety reasons, we had to pre-record late in the afternoon, once we knew for sure that it was going to rain — we had minute-by-minute updates, we had never watched the weather forecast so closely in our lives… We assessed that it was going to be too dangerous for performers, even with a few drops of rains. [Gaga] wanted to do it absolutely so we preferred to pre-record it rather than cancel it. […] The soil would have been slippery. She was wearing heels, very near the water, there were stairs… We had to be extremely cautious.”
Le Pladec also confirmed that despite the pre-recording, Lady Gaga completely and utterly served live vocals.
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