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Just days after confirming that she would not be singing during this year’s ceremony, Sunday’s Oscars indeed welcomed Lady Gaga to the stage for a (surprise!) performance of the Best Original Song-nominated ballad “Hold My Hand.”
Gaga appeared towards the third hour of the show, dressed down in black clothing and minimal makeup, delivering a speech about the importance of being your own hero.
With music and lyrics by Gaga and BloodPop, “Hold My Hand” was written for Top Gun: Maverick, which received a total of six nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Watch footage of Gaga’s performance below, which we’ll replace with official video if/when it becomes available:
Lady Gaga performs a stripped-down version of "Hold My Hand" at the #Oscars. https://t.co/ndiKiHeOT5 pic.twitter.com/dLlahLTjht
— Variety (@Variety) March 13, 2023
“Hold My Hand” was one of five tunes nominated for Best Original Song this year, up against against “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson, with lyrics by Tems and Coogler); “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman (music and lyrics by Diane Warren); “Naatu Naatu” from RRR (music by M. M. Keeravani and Lyrics by Chandrabose); and “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once (music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski, and lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne).
Hit PLAY on the video above to watch Gaga’s Oscars performance, then grade it in the poll below and drop a comment with your full review.
Ugh she so fake. Has talent don’t get me wrong but not very good person. Just ask her dog walker who almost die walking her dogs
Huh? It’s not her fault he was assaulted and she paid all his medical bills, etc when he was hurt. How does that make her a bad person?
Did you speak with her dog walker?
so you’re blaming her more than … the actual person who shot the dog walker 😭 you’re so painfully american
T-shirt and jeans at The Oscar’s 😁 I love her!!!
I agree with you 👍
Dressed down is an understatement… looking a bit more Gap than Oscar… but she never disappoints. Fabulous performance. Gaga forever!
her performance was so pretentious and indulgent
She’s so method. 🙄 That being said, I love that song.
You lost me with “Mother Monster”. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
And nothing is spontaneous. This was probably planned all along to make a statement or thrown together due to backlash.
yeah I figured her “I’m not performing” was a ploy, glad she did though it was a good performance that awful super zoom in was so distracting though
agreed
The way she prepared for her acting roles in the past has been quite method, she clearly find it hard to switch. Felt like the producers pressured her to perform by announcing publicly she won’t, even though she was clearly busy and didn’t have time to prepare. And those super zoom felt like the producers is over compensating on her understated performance, and payback for not saying yes in the first place
Why was the camera all up in her face? She was well dressed on the red carpet then performed in her gym clothes. LoLz
You idiots who are talking about dogs. Go back to the 6th grade and be a bully. Seems that is where your maturity fell as you tripped over kindness and split your lip. She is to be honored, respected, as a talented performer whose soul is in her voice. Do you diminish Ray Charles for destroying so many lives through addiction? Do you diminish the Yankees for all those nights falling on the floor drunk before the media cleaned up their act? Go listen to Susan Boyle sing Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
How is Ray Charles even relevant here? How about you go back to the fourth grade and learn how to do a logical comparison. 🤣
She was great.
She was completely deconstructed and it gave her performance weight.
I would also say she wore no make-up.
Love her.
She almost had me rooting against RRR. Fantastic performance.
It didn’t matter that she was wearing expensive torn jeans and an expensive T-shirt to perform at the Oscars…
She’s such a good singer and her performance was good.
Je l’adore! quelle artiste et chanteuse exceptionnelle!