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bitch | Lady Gaga introduced Michael Polansky as her fiancé to French Prime Minister at Paris Olympics

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bitch | Lady Gaga introduced Michael Polansky as her fiancé to French Prime Minister at Paris Olympics

bitch | Lady Gaga introduced Michael Polansky as her fiancé to French Prime Minister at Paris Olympics
Lady Gaga has started wearing a big diamond ring — the that —back in April, we assumed that she and her boyfriend of four years, Michael Polansky, were engaged. I say “assumed” because Gaga hasn’t said a word about it… until now! She met with French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Sunday (who is the youngest and first openly gay French prime minister, FYI), and Attal’s team posted the nine-second encounter to his official TikTok. Attal captioned the video “Thank you Lady Gaga for your breathtaking performance at the opening ceremony. It was breathtaking. 🤩🫶“ and after the two kiss, we hear Gaga introduce Attal to her “fiancé Michael.” And that’s all the confirmation Little Monsters and People Mag needed!

Lady Gaga is engaged!

The singer, 38, and her longtime boyfriend, tech entrepreneur and investor Michael Polansky, are set to tie the knot, she revealed to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal during the Paris 2024 Olympics.

In a TikTok posted by Attal on Sunday, July 28, Gaga can be heard introducing Polansky as “my fiancé” while the trio watched a swimming event together.

PEOPLE has reached out to reps for Gaga and Polansky for comment.

(People)

Well done, Attal, well done. I’d like to think his team knew what they were doing when they included that line, knowing it would go viral (do young people still say that?). But there’s always plausible deniability, “What? We were just gushing?” Anyway, congratulations to Lady Gaga on her engagement and performance Friday night. As we suspected last week, Lady Gaga and Celine Dion were in town to perform at the opening ceremony. Oddsmakers had placed bets on Lady Gaga singing “La Vie en Rose,” but it was Celine who made us all cry with an Edith Piaf song, “L’Hymne à l’amour.” (And who predicted she’d be at the Eiffel Tower? Kismet, that’s him!) Lady Gaga, meanwhile, surprised us with a bit of light, frothy, vintage French cabaret, singing “Mon Truc en Plumes,” which translates to “My Thing with Feathers,” originally made famous by French elf Zizi Jeanmaire. You got me with feathers.

Lady Gaga hid behind feathers on a staircase along the Seine, but it didn’t take long for her to emerge and take center stage at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday.

The “Shallow” singer performed Zizi Jeanmaire’s “Mon Truc en Plumes” in fairly good French, which is no surprise given that she covered the Edith Piaf classic “La Vie en Rose” for her hit film “Une étoile est né.”

Gaga put on a stunning show during the Parade of Nations boat ride along the river, as seen in a video of her performance.

She embodied the Parisian cabaret singers of yesteryear in a short, strapless black outfit with stockings and high heels in an energetic number before finally settling in at the piano.

Her appearance at the festivities hardly shocked anyone. She was spotted in Paris earlier this week and was seen rehearsing shortly before the ceremony.

Gaga had a great time and wrote on X that she was “completely grateful to have been invited to open” the Olympics.

“I am also honored… to sing such a special French song,” she wrote.

(From HuffPost)

If you look at photos of Zizi, you’ll see that Gaga really nailed her look (aside from the bleached eyebrows). This is one aspect of Gaga that is sometimes underappreciated: her research and respect for music history. So yes, of course she collaborated with Dior to mimic Zizi’s feather creations, and of course she also released a choreography that paid homage to Zizi’s style—I especially loved the footwork at the beginning before the big reveal. And it all came together perfectly! I mean, the paparazzi leaked photos of a final dress rehearsal before the show, a dancer fell on the steps in the rain, some French speakers called her pronunciations “adjacent to French,” and there was something weird going on with the sound in general… But other than that, impeccable!

Look, I love my Lady. But this performance wasn’t as close as it could have been, and
This should have been a slam dunk for her. Now that I’ve watched it a few times, I think they needed a more contrasting background to highlight the meticulous hand gestures Gaga was doing. Especially after she took off the gloves, all those movements got lost among the feathers. As for the sound, was it being on the water that messed it up? It didn’t seem to affect the other singers of the night, though. And wasn’t it weird that after her dramatic arrival at the piano, she only stood there for a hot minute and didn’t sing for the rest of the number? I’m just nitpicking for love! That’s life!

Photo credits: Best image/Backgrid, Sina Schuldt/dpa / DPA Picture Alliance / Avalon