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Lady Gaga Pre-Recorded Her Olympic Opening Ceremony Performance “For Safety Reasons”


The same technical difficulties and inclement weather that plagued Lady Gaga's Olympic opening ceremony performance forced her to pre-record the set.

Olympic and Paralympic opening ceremony choreographer Maud le Pladec told Variety that Gaga’s surprise performance was the only one 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. Lady Gaga rehearsing along the Seine ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Gaga reportedly watched the performance onscreen from her dressing room before returning to her hotel and sharing a heartfelt statement about the experience.

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