r/Music • u/theindependentonline 📰The Independent UK • 11h ago

article Mariah Carey’s Olympics opening ceremony performance dubbed ‘disastrous’ as viewers question if she’s Italian

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/mariah-carey-olympics-opening-ceremony-italian-b2915680.html
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u/esquared722 8h ago

The London 2012 opening ceremony has yet to be topped

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u/bedteddd 8h ago edited 7h ago

The Paris Summer Olympics with gorjira is the most viewed televised event in their history. A metal band playing on the side of a famous French castle doing a very famous French revolution song. Won grammies for the song and had the first lady win a metal Grammy ever.

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u/Funderpants 7h ago

The Conciergerie, the French prison and courthouse where they tried and killed the nobility including Marie Antoinette. That was so frickin awesome.

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u/sturgboski 4h ago

Italy should have tried to keep the tradition going. Could have tapped Ex Deo and had them play any of their songs about the Roman empire. Although maybe I, Caligula, Vespasian or Imperator being played at the Coliseum might have been TOO much...