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Lady Gaga’s Olympics performance prerecorded for safety reasons

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In an interview with Variety published Sunday, Paris Olympics Director of Dance Maud Le Pladec revealed that when the 38-year-old popstar performed Zizi Jeanmaire’s “Mon Truc En Plumes” during the Olympics opening ceremony Friday, it actually happened earlier than televised.

“Unfortunately, it was the only (performance) that, for safety reasons, we had to prerecord late in the afternoon, once we knew for sure that it was going to rain,” Le Pladec said. “We had minute-by-minute updates; we had never watched the weather forecast so closely in our lives.”

She added: “We 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 prerecord it rather than cancel it.”

For her performance, Gaga sang and danced on a gilded staircase next to the Seine river with a crew of dancers wielding pink feathered pom poms. After taking a beat to show off her piano chops, she emerged wearing an ivory feathered tail attached to the back of her black bustier to finish off the routine.

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