The One world: Together at Home performance has ended, whether it is a global live broadcast or a domestic recorded version.
In the eight-hour uninterrupted live broadcast, hundreds of singers, stars, hosts, celebrities and politicians, front-line medical staff and hundreds of millions of fans around the world have created the history of popular music. What is left to the world in 2020 is not only an epic disaster, but also the highlight moment of human beings as a community of shared destiny once again, letting go of prejudice and differences, regardless of national borders and skin color, and connecting each other with music.
From a musical point of view, One World can hardly be called a great one. It is not even a real live performance or live broadcast-just like the literal meaning of "Together at Home", it is composed of more than 100 groups of artists. The performance video recorded at home (or recording studio), and then unified editing is completed, and the live performance video is carried out. The most advanced live streaming technology in the world today is almost useless, but it is precisely because of this that it can guarantee its stable broadcasting all over the world to the greatest extent.
The incomparable value of One World is precisely that when today's world is sharply divided by political differences, economic crisis and the new crown virus, people can see from the United States, China, Britain, South Korea, Colombia, Australia, Italy and other countries at the same time. The musicians of the sings together, expressing the value of the common destiny of the world, and praising the glorious humanity of watching and helping each other in times of crisis. In addition to expressing respect and gratitude to the brave and fearless medical staff and the WHO, the most mentioned by these big-name artists is to thank the creator of the show: Lady Gaga.
On April 6, in the WHO briefing on the epidemic, Lady Gaga announced the planned performance to the world through a video connection. She said: " We must tell the deeds and good deeds of the first-line medical staff, and praise them. " On April 17, the lineup was announced. Gaga has invited Paul McCartney, Elton John, and hip-hop singers. More than 100 top artists, including Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Jessie J, John Legend, and Charlie Puth, participated in the performance. A day later, the list added Celine Dion, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, the Beckhams, the Rolling Stones and other heavyweight guests. In such a short period of time, Lady Gaga's high-energy action and huge appeal are amazing.
At 2 am on April 19th, Beijing time, the live broadcast of One world: Together at Home global charity show began. At the end of the warm-up session, Lady Gaga appeared for the first time. She put on a light makeup in front of the camera, dressed as a home, and her posture was noticeably plump compared to when she appeared in public before the epidemic, and her dark circles revealed her fatigue during this period of time. Gaga gave a speech, thanking all the singers who participated and the medical staff who worked hard on the front line, and also expressed concern about the current epidemic. The tears filled his eyes during the conversation, which was moving.
In the subsequent official performance, Lady Gaga, as the opening guest, covered the classic work "Smile" by the legendary black jazz singer Nat King Cole. The final repertoire is the classic song "The Prayer". Gaga debuts with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, and legend brother. Under the accompaniment of a bright piano, it ends with a dazzling luxurious lineup and a beautiful singing voice like nature. This charity concert that moved the world.
During the performance, the host and the stars appeared in turn, calling for donations to the medical staff fighting on the front line. Taking into account the economic impact of the epidemic on ordinary people around the world, performance organizers do not ask audiences for donations, but instead raise funds from influential companies around the world.
On April 20th, Global Citizen, the international organization responsible for hosting the event, stated on Twitter that it finally confirmed that it had raised US$127.9 million (approximately 900 million yuan) for charity. As the initiator, Lady Gaga responded low-key: "I am honored to be a part of this project."
It is reported that this donation comes from the sponsorship of Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, Casio and other companies and private philanthropists. Gaga also donated one-third of the income of its own beauty brand. Among them, 55 million U.S. dollars will be used as the World Health Organization's COVID-19 emergency fund, and the remaining more than 70 million U.S. dollars will be used to support local medical staff in fighting the epidemic.
Gaga said: "I love all the artists who participated in the show, all the people who watched, and all the people who didn't watch or couldn't watch. We are all important, we are one world."
As one of the most well-known pop singers and public figures in the world, Lady Gaga has given people a long time impression of weird behavior and exaggerated performance style, not to mention those weird and outrageous costumes, almost becoming a "witch." Synonymous with. On the other hand, she has conquered the ears of hundreds of millions of fans with her extraordinary musical talent. The bold, rebellious, and fearless style in her songs has inspired countless young people around the world to be who they are.
The Lady Gaga on the stage is so powerful that she is unbelievably powerful, but the Lady Gaga in private wraps herself tightly. How could such a complicated, sharp and contradictory character become the planner and initiator of a charity show? In addition to having enough fame, what power did she rely on to accomplish this impossible task? Perhaps this Netflix documentary can tell you the answer.
The most affectionate love ends in loneliness
The documentary film produced in 2017 is titled "GAGA: Five Foot Two (Gaga: Five Foot Two)". Converted to the metric system, five (English) feet two (English) inches is about 157 centimeters-Gaga is a small man, although it is hard to imagine from her strong aura. The title is very interesting, just like filming a documentary for Huang Xiaoming and naming it "The Leader: Actual Height 1.72". Only Netflix will blatantly take the star's "death point" as an entry point and tell everyone that the girl in the camera is 100% real. Similarly, in a crowd of stars, very few can accept this kind of kind joke like Gaga.
The film revealed through a balloon in the Gaga mansion that she is taking over the filming of the film "A Star Is Born" directed by Bradley Cooper. Two years later, with this film, Gaga won the Oscar for Best Original Song and nominated for Best Actress at the same time, creating a new Oscar history.
"The Birth of a Star" is a classic remake film that tells the story of the outdated country music star Jackson helping the talented young girl Avery realize her musical dream. But at the end of the story, the two deeply in love had to face a painful ending. Jackson, who was deep in the habit of drinking and drug abuse, chose to commit suicide in order to let Avery go forward, while Avery was losing his lover and blaming himself. Suffering from the double blow.
This old story that has been reproduced several times is more like a tailor-made for Gaga. Whether it's the heroine's desire to be famous when she first came out, her dedication to love, her amazing stage expression, her amazing creative ability, they almost reproduce Gaga, who became a hit when she stepped into the music scene at the age of 22.
Emotionally, Gaga is as bumpy and full of drama as the heroine. In 2006, when he was only 19 years old, Gaga, who had just dropped out of New York University, met music producer Rob Fusari, and then made a public relationship. Almost exactly the same as the plot in the movie, Rob Fusari unearthed and praised this unforgettable girl with one hand, and spent months tweaking her singing skills and dance steps. But then Lady Gaga and Rob Fusari became a hit, and the two broke up in 2007. Rob Fusari also took Gaga to court, demanding the agreed payment of US$30.5 million.
In the same year, Gaga took the initiative to pursue the 25-year-old musician Luc Carl. The story of the two was almost reproduced in "The Birth of a Star". In the following years, Gaga and Carl experienced the twists and turns of breaking up-compounding-engagement-breaking up again.
In this relationship, Gaga tried to enter a marriage for the first time in his life and had a stable family, but ended in failure. In the following years, she fell in love with and got engaged with actor Taylor Kinney and art dealer Christian Carino, but without exception, she broke off the engagement and became the "runaway bride."
Facing the camera, Gaga talked about the grief of the past: "Whenever I get a great news (at work), my feelings are over. When my record sold for 10 million, I lost Rob; I I lost Carl when I sold 30 million records; I lost Taylor when I got the chance to make a movie... It felt like I was drifting forever. This was the third time I was heartbroken." , Gaga doesn't know yet, he will repeat this sad history with Christian again.
As one of the most powerful women in the world, Gaga knows that the stronger she becomes, the greater loneliness she must bear. At the moment when she was tortured by illness and loneliness, she turned away from the camera and burst into tears: "I just want to make music, make everyone happy, go on tour, start a family, but I know I can't do everything at the same time."
Facing his physical therapist Brandon, Gaga cried like a little girl aggrieved: "I'm lonely, every night, these people will leave, right? I'm the only one left and become silent. "
Female power
In 2016, Lady Gaga sang the song "Til It Happens to You" with 50 victims of sexual assault at the Oscars ceremony. In one of the shocking scenes, Gaga also bravely exposed his unbearable past when he was raped ten years ago in an interview with the media.
Gaga's acting life has always been accompanied by the pursuit and struggle for women's rights. When he first entered the music scene, Gaga encountered the nightmare of most girls and was treated as a sexy plaything by his agent: "Those men have the power to play with women. No matter what they want, drugs, money, Champagne, beauties, and the sexiest beauties are also at your fingertips. As soon as I entered the room, I felt that they would treat me as that kind of woman and expected me to dedicate myself like them."
In order to resist the agency's packaging of herself as a sexy Barbie doll, Gaga chose a weird look, "This way I will feel that I still have control." She did it, and those astounding costumes left an indelible impression in many people's hearts. At the MV Music Video Awards, she performed a song about "Paparazzi" in a sing-and-bleed style, reminding people of "what fame has done to Marilyn Monroe".
At the age of 30, she realized that she now wants to be who she is more: "I understand now. I don't have to wear countless wigs to show myself."
Gaga is a very daring person to express her views. She once stood in front of the White House and shouted to Obama: "You have the most beautiful lesbian fan in the world. Don't pretend that you can't see or hear me." She supported The affirmative movement supports LGBT groups, supports AIDS patients, and opposes violence against women...
In the documentary, Gaga bluntly her second popular single "Poker Face" is a work expressing the heartfelt wishes of sexual minorities, "When I had sex with my boyfriend, I imagined a female face in my mind. "
Family power
The most touching part of the documentary comes from the relationship between Lady Gaga and her beloved family, because at the time Gaga's new album "Joanne" was about to be released. And this album was created by Gaga to commemorate his aunt of the same name.
Aunt Joanne had suffered from severe lupus erythematosus and died when she was only 19 years old. She is Gaga's grandmother's favorite young daughter, and her grandmother had to personally decide to give up the operation, so that Joanne had less pain before her death.
The death of Joanne became the most profound scar in the family. Her black and white photos have been hung in the most eye-catching part of the dining room, and grandmother's bedroom.
There is also Joanne in Gaga's real name, and his father hopes that his daughter can live with the name Joanne brilliantly and beautifully. After composing the song "Joanne", Gaga anxiously recorded the demo on his phone and showed it to his grandmother. She gently told her grandmother: "If you can't hold on, you don't need to say anything to me. We just need to stop."
The distant kingdom of heaven
Not where you belong
Every place in my heart
All in a dull pain
I need you
Need you more than angels
Where are you going
My girl
I know where you put your soul
I know you will keep going
Even if i can't see you again
I can't wait to see you soar in the sky
A soft and deep voice slowly flowed from the phone. First, Gaga's father could not contain his emotions and walked out of the room quickly, and then Gaga's tears flowed out of his eyes. Only grandma listened to the whole song calmly, and said to Gaga, "It's so beautiful, I like it very much." Gaga whispered, "This is for you and your father." Grandma said, "Don't do it because of this. And pain. A long time has passed, and she has been with me for 19 beautiful years. She will always be my treasure."
"Family is the most important in my life." LadyGaga said, "I would not be who I am now without them. Compared to them, my career and my job are not so important. Family means to me. Everything."
Love to the world in sickness
The documentary used more than 1/3 of the space to record Gaga's hard work and hard work for the upcoming album "Joanne", but the new album was leaked three days before its release. Because a Belgian record store decided to release the album in advance without authorization, the album's tracks were illegally downloaded hundreds of thousands of times within a few days. However, at the time, Lady Gaga was unable to take care of these, and her old illness relapsed.
In 2010, Lady Gaga admitted that she might have lupus erythematosus during a guest talk show: "Lupus erythematosus is a genetic disease in my family. I have no symptoms yet. I cannot say that I have suffered from this disease. But the diagnosis is true. Being positive, I have to be more careful about my health."
A few years ago, Gaga's hip joint was seriously injured during the performance. In front of the camera, Lady Gaga, who was ill, shed tears on the bed with pain: "It seems that someone used a rope to pull up one of my big toes, and then the first one. The ribs, then the shoulders, and then the face are pulling hard... my face hurts too much."
In the midst of her illness, she thought of people who had the same illnesses as her: "They are not as fast as my money, and there is no one to take care of them. It's hard to imagine how they survived."
On September 5, 2017, Lady Gaga also cancelled the Montreal concert originally scheduled for the 11th due to fibromyalgia. She decided to leave the music scene for a while and take a rest.
But even after suffering from illness for many years, Gaga has never stopped investing in charity. In September 2011, a little fan of Lady Gaga could not bear being bullied in school and committed suicide at home. The incident aroused great concern of Lady Gaga. She and her mother founded the "Born This Way" (Born This Way) Foundation to focus on the physical and mental health of young people and help young people grow up healthily.
In order to help the foundation raise funds, in 2017, Gaga personally went to Starbucks to "work" and make coffee for customers. Starbucks donates 25 cents to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" foundation for every co-branded drink sold.
In addition, she donated her income to charity organizations such as the American Lupus Erythematosus Foundation.
Her charity has won the support of many people. Bob Ross, chairman of the California Charity Association, said: "Lady Gaga will greatly help those disadvantaged groups who are neglected and bullied, isolated and struggling in their lives, and such help is in today’s The world is in desperate need."
At the end of the documentary, the 30-year-old Gaga thought that his upcoming performance on the midfield show of the US Super Bowl final would be the most glorious moment in his life. However, even she herself cannot predict that in the spring of 2020, she will be the personal initiator of the One World: Together at Home global charity show, and she deserves to become one of the greatest women of this era.
In this petite body of five feet two inches, there is a huge power like Iron Man-this power comes from the love for his family, the world and mankind. This kind of love is probably the last hope of our fragile planet.
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