Oscars 2023: Lady Gaga Performs Emotional ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Song

Making an surprising look! Girl Gaga took the stage through the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12, to carry out her tune “Maintain My Hand” from High Gun: Maverick.

“I wrote this tune with my buddy BloodPop for the movie High Gun: Maverick in my studio basement. It’s deeply private for me and I feel that all of us want one another,” the singer, 36, stated earlier than her shock efficiency. “We want plenty of like to stroll by way of this life and all of us want a hero. Typically there’s heroes throughout us in unassuming locations. However you would possibly discover you can be your individual hero — even if you happen to really feel damaged inside.”

Gaga went on to sing a chilling rendition of the observe, which was nominated for Greatest Unique Music. Throughout her efficiency, the Academy Award nominee swapped out her formal black Versace robe for a easy T-shirt and denims. She additionally opted for a fresh-faced take care of strolling the purple carpet in vivid purple lipstick.

The beautiful efficiency comes after a producer for the awards present beforehand introduced she wouldn’t be in attendance on account of prior work commitments.

“We’ve got nice relationships with Girl Gaga and her camp [but] she’s in the midst of taking pictures a film proper now, and right here we’re honoring the film business and what it takes to make a film,” Oscars producer Glenn Weiss stated on Wednesday, March 8, through the Oscars Inventive Workforce press convention, referring to the singer’s position within the Joker sequel Folie à Deux. “After a bunch of forwards and backwards, it didn’t really feel like she will get a efficiency to the caliber that we’re used to along with her, that she’s used to and all that stuff.”

Nevertheless, hours earlier than Sunday’s present it was confirmed that Gaga could be attending the most important night time in Hollywood in spite of everything.

Gaga is nominated for her collaboration with BloodPop and Benjamin Rice on the tune “Maintain My Hand” for the High Gun: Maverick soundtrack. The opposite Greatest Unique Music nominees embrace Diane Warren‘s “Applause,” Rihanna‘s “Elevate Me Up,” M. M. Keeravani‘s “Naatu Naatu” and Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski‘s “That is Life.”

High Gun: Maverick lead Tom Cruise beforehand praised Gaga for the position she performed in bringing the emotional observe to life.

“With each movie, rating is extremely vital, and in a High Gun film, it was like, ‘What’s that?’ All the things was like, ‘How do you prime it?’ And I used to be like, ‘I’m not going to attempt to prime it. I simply need to be genuine to the story we’re telling,’” Cruise, 60, recalled in Could 2022 throughout an interview with CinemaBlend. “And when Gaga got here in with that tune — you recognize, we had Lorne Balfe who produced it and Hans Zimmer. I’ve identified since Rain Man. I introduced him in on Rain Man and Days of Thunder. And Harold Faltermeyer, in fact, I knew from the primary High Gun.”

The actor continued: “So you will have all of those parts — after which Gaga got here in with this tune — it turned our rating. It turned the heartbeat of the movie, what she did. And I known as her and stated, ‘I don’t suppose you perceive, emotionally…’ I used to be so involved, till I heard that piece. And I knew that that piece, what it does, the way it married [to] our story emotionally. In order that was a second. That was an actual second for all of us.”

In the meantime, director Joseph Kosinski revealed he was initially nervous to listen to Gaga’s tune for the film.

“It was nerve-racking to listen to that tune for the primary time,” he instructed Insider that very same month. “We went over to the report label, and also you’re nearly afraid you’re not going to love it, as a result of how do you say no thanks to Girl Gaga?”

Kosinski stated he knew as quickly as he heard the tune that it was meant for High Gun, including, “As quickly as we heard the tune it was like, wow, that could be a basic melody. That’s incredible. Even in demo type. When Hans heard it he was like, ‘I can use this as a theme for the film.’ He labored it into his orchestral rating. So it’s far more than only a tune within the film. It’s all around the theme of the movie.”

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High Gun: Maverick, which is a sequel to the unique 1986 movie, additionally acquired nominates for Greatest Image, Greatest Tailored Screenplay, Greatest Sound, Greatest Movie Modifying, Greatest Visible Results and Greatest Drama Movie on Sunday night time. The motion drama featured a a star-studded solid together with Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman and Ed Harris.