GOJIRA wins the Olympics!? - Music Teacher Reacts | GOJIRA - Ah! Ça Ira

[@cyrilspencer6689]

and the thing that is not talk about enough, by performing at the openning ceremony at the olympic, gojira juste became the most watch live metal performance of all time (Around 1.5Billion people watch the openning ceremony of the summer olympic)

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

I heard this as well. Don’t think it’s a legit world record?

[@Ibu812]

Énorme

[@maureenwagg5305]

I have spread that far and wide. It was the most epic thing to happen in the Olympic history ever. People who never would have listened to Gojira, are now fans. Even A priest liked it. He, in fact, liked the entire opening ceremony and wants to know more about Gojira.

[@alexschofield944]

As a Brit, I was so disappointed we didn’t showcase heavy metal at the London opening ceremony in 2012. The Olympics were literally held in the same area of London Iron Maiden are from, so they’d have been perfect for it. Absolute credit to Paris for doing this. Gojira are epic and this performance is an absolute classic

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

For sure! Can you imagine if London found a way to include Maiden? Or sabbath?! Or motorhead?!?

[@kikilriki]

I've saw them live in the uk a couple of years ago and it definitely was a beautiful experience. Recommended to see them perform at least once!

[@dexter-ou2mt]

OLYMPICS PARIS 2024... French people did it "their" way and it was ... F..K YEAHHHHHHHH !!! 🤟

[@Tiisiphone]

Ah çà ira! is a very popular french revolutionary song. It can either mean It will be ok, or we've had enough. It says "It will be ok, we'll hang all the aristocrats to the lamp posts and the people will be ok. The castle is La Conciergerie, it was the prison where political opponents to the Revolution awaited to be executed by guillotine. Marie-Antoinette spent her last days there before being beheaded. The executions didn't take place at La Conciergerie but at the Place de la Révolution (revolution square), now called Place de la Concorde. You can see a big obelisk in the middle of the square, it was brought from Egypt by Napoleon. It stands where the guillotine once stood. The boat is from the City of Paris' coat-of-arms, it's motto is Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, the ship is beaten by waves but does not sink. It's a symbol of resilience. The singer is a metalhead, she was a metal singer before starting an opera singer career.

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

This is all fantastic information! Thank you very much for sharing.

[@gerardsoler1713]

Ok, and by the way our flag represents the french royalty (white color) contained between blue and red, the colors of Paris where most of the revolutionnary actes occurred. Well this white color IS a reminder for everybody : never forget to control every power, and do not give them any liberty that could restrain yours. Révolution !

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

@@gerardsoler1713 I had no idea that’s what your flag represented. Thanks for the info!

[@bhromur]

I would just like to correct one point: the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde comes from the temple of Amon in Luxor in Egypt, but was not brought back to France by Napoléon. It was offered to Charles X in 1830 (with another one) and erected on the square 6 years later. The second one is still in Egypt.

[@Tiisiphone]

@@bhromur Thanks for correcting me. I read in several books that the obelisk was brought to France after the Egypt campaign. Yet another proof that many sources can't be trusted!

[@lionelbacchetti843]

Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira (Ah! It will be OK) is a revolutionary song, whose chorus, which symbolizes the French Revolution, was heard for the first time in May 1790. Its author, a former street singer soldier named Ladré, had adapted songs from innocuous words about the Carillon national1, a very popular contradance tune due to Bécourt, violinist at the Théâtre des Beaujolais, and which Queen Marie-Antoinette herself often liked to play on her harpsichord2. This tune is notably used as the main theme of the 4th movement of the Symphony in A major by the German composer Friedrich Witt, written around 1790. The title and the theme of the chorus of this song were inspired by the imperturbable optimism of Benjamin Franklin, representative much appreciated by the French people of the Congress of the 13 colonies of America in Paris, from December 22, 1776 to July 12, 1785, who, when asked for news of the American War of Independence, invariably replied in his bad French: “ça ira, ça ira”. During the Revolution, the text was transformed by the sans-culottes into murderous apostrophes against the aristocracy and the clergy.

[@Godless-Being]

Gojira needs to release this song on Spotify

[@ordalieduvoyageur]

Content que la France ai ete a la hauteur de sa reputation!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

merci pour Gojira !!

[@anyal1987]

from 1.5M listeners on spotify to 3M in 5 days :D

[@philippeloiseau6426]

Amazing vive la France 🇫🇷 ❤

[@Ibu812]

Ça bouillonne à la conciergerie 🔥

[@philippeloiseau6426]

I will do anything to work at Hellfest as a volunteer next year so I get a chance to see them live

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

I feel ya! I’ve yet to be able to catch a live show

[@KeyKeysASMR]

Well done friend. So amazing.

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

Thanks for watching! ❤️

[@Kilo80Kilo]

As you mentioned the edit you watched blacked out the outro for unknown reasons. The band and boat gets draped with the red streamers and it makes it that much more metal. There is also some smoke and pyro. If you look around on youtube a bit you can find versions that are not blacked out and I encourage you to watch it.

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

I have since watched those versions! It was surprisingly difficult to find... but still a great performance! Thanks for the comment

[@26jf78]

Nous sommes fiers d'avoir fait rayonner toutes les cultures musicales en mettant en valeur notre patrimoine lors de ces jo 🇫🇷

[@bartonbagnes4605]

You have to wonder what their budget was for this performance, just epic.

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

No idea but my god what a great performance

[@J2M67]

@@TempleMusicAcademy The budget for the whole opening ceremony is 122 millions of Euros (approximately 130 millions of Dollars). Greetings from France.

[@audreygont4478]

​@@J2M67oui parmi la plus chère cérémonie d'ouverture avec la sécurité le long de la Seine. Mais au final, c'est les JO parmi les moins chers.

[@J2M67]

@@audreygont4478 En effet.

[@Holly72-b6m]

The Lyric part is a mix between Carmen, a very famous Opera of Georges Bizet from 1875 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHzRZWSfeqiDjdE, and the Revolutionnary French Song "AH ça ira !"

[@detroitpolak9904]

For a microsecond I thought that was real blood when I watched it.

[@GuiBu-m7w]

GOJIRA

[@gypate74]

Good video but please they're not from Paris. They're from around Bayonne in the Southwest of France , far away from Paris. Paris is not France 😅

[@Holly72-b6m]

Sure but they are French no ? And actually they are from the Landes, and not the Pays Basque. :)

[@gypate74]

@@Holly72-b6m I was in high school in Bayonne and Mario who has the same age as me was in the same class than a friend of mine. They may come from les Landes but they toured a lot in Pays Basque, I saw them many times, Gojira but also their side project "Empalot"

[@derekpetersen7571]

Hey my friend it’s time for more Mr Dan Vasc Blind and frozen love ya man

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

Working on it my friend ❤️

[@losrguitarplayr1]

From what I've heard, the composer pretty much told them the key and tempo along with some tiny other notes, then left the rest up to them. Please forgive my lack of deep musical knowledge, I know I'm probably 100% wrong in the details but the composer pretty much said "Key of G# minor. 120 BPM for 1 minute 30 seconds then key change to A major for 45 seconds. Etc..."

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

I heard a similar rumor. That just makes it more Amazing hahaha

[@arnoaldloukasscirpionis1558]

Actually, it wasn't exactly Gojira - it was Gojira WITH opera singer Marina Viotti AND philharmonic Orchestre de Paris (out of the scope of the cameras). "Ah, ça ira ! Les aristocrates à la lanterne, on les pendra" means "It will be fine ! We will HANG the aristocrats at the street light [posts]." French Revolution popular song - except by the time Marie Antoinette was condemned to death, Doctor Guillotin had invented the guillotine, in hope to make the execution less painful than hanging.

[@terezastastna941]

❤

[@josephm6320]

Are they playing live?

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

100% they are.

[@jonathancasas5723]

Absolutely 💯 yes

[@dignouhagstromdegilead29]

During the ceremony no, all artists were playback because of technical complexity

[@puccaland]

​​@@dignouhagstromdegilead29 Not at all, I am not sure about Gojira's part but Marina Viotti who is the mezzo soprano who sang with them was live, the other mezzo Soprano who sang the national anthem was live, Céline Dion, the pianist, Lady Gaga, Juliette Armanet who sang Imagine...

[@dignouhagstromdegilead29]

@@puccaland Sorry but you're wrong, all was playback I'm sure, it is an official communication about that. Lady Gaga was recorded before the show because of the rain.

[@GabrielDiBona]

Hi! This bulding is the conciergerie's jail where the queen marie antoinette receive her sentance to death

[@richardrybicki749]

Mary Here

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

Missed you!

[@Xsymph]

Very annoying editing. Takes off the right flow of the song.

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

:(

[@MightyToken]

your edits failed you

[@roshanjesook4064]

Hey man stop pausing every single second man what's wrong with you ppl. Just damn react to the song

[@TempleMusicAcademy]

I remember when I left stupid comments on the internet. Then I had my 10th birthday and grew up.

[@billsturm9225]

Hey man, if you want to see the video uninterrupted then just watch the music video. This is a reaction. That means it has to get stopped for two very important reasons. First is because KZbin will take it down for copywrite issues. (Fair use allows for people to educate while using copywrited material) which brings us to the second point, it's a REACTION VIDEO.

[@Myheadhurts.4]

It's his channel. Let him do what he wants, or watch someone else.

[@jenniferloring8112]

Did you miss the part at the beginning where he said there would be frequent stops? Go watch the original

[@Pubicon]

​@@TempleMusicAcademy Dude. You're not even close to allow yourself this kind of attitude. First of all, remove your face from the video. You can't afford the extra cringe and a voiceover works better anyway. Second, focus on what's actually interesting and don't mention the obvious. We don't care. If you can't find 5 minutes worth of interesting things to say about the performance, then make a different video.

[@kailee87]

4:06 time to play DOOM babe