The Olympics had a thing with Lady Gaga.
The global superstar hit the world stage on Friday night by way of the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris where she helped kick off the festivities by performing “Mon Truc en Plumes,” a Zizi Jeanmarie song that translates to “My Thing With Feathers” — and there were quite a few. The Oscar and Grammy Award-winning singer descended a set of stairs above the Seine cloaked behind a plumage of pink feathers, thanks to black-clad dancers.
Only Gaga’s legs could be seen as she made her way down to stairs and onto a stage at which time the feathered accessories were pulled back to reveal the superstar entertainer who joined the dancers in a choreographed routine as she belted out the song, which Jeanmarie once performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. Shortly after turning out the performance, Gaga took to social media to reveal details of the special French connections she shares with Jeanmarie and the song.
“I feel so completely grateful to have been asked to open the [Paris Olympics] 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 theatre,” she posted on Instagram and X. She went on to trace the connections to Jeanmarie — a French ballet dancer, actress and singer, whose full name is Renée Marcelle “Zizi” Jeanmaire — who starred in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, which marked her first jazz release.
