@@Hamter_mental_counseling This is an adaptation of a national historic song from the french revolution. What do you expect?! also they didnt have long to perform
It is not easy to impress a hardcore RAMMSTEIN fan but this was phenomenal! Music, representation, location, historical content, everything is just perfect. Love to watch and hear it over and over again. Vive la France!
Metal and opera aren’t as different as people think. Opera is very metal in a lot of ways, as metal is very opera. Metal is close to classical music too. The similarities are crazy
AS A LIFE LONG METAL FAN IN HIS 50'S THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT METAL MUSIC HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ABOUT! OPEN YOUR EYES AND MINDS, BECAUSE IT IS THIS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL AND MIND OPENING! METAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOR THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeing Gojira kicking ass at the Olympics makes me really want Finland to host the Olympics again to see what they'd come up with. They're the metal epicenter of the entire planet.
@@juliogutierrez7497 Honestly in hindsight, they might just go for Poets of the Fall now that Alan Wake 2 made them more well known to people who don't normally listen to rock music outside of The Eagles or something.
To anyone wondering : the woman at the beginning is a representation of Marie-Antoinette beheaded (she was queen of France during Louis XVI’s reign and she was executed during the French Revolution). The building is the “conciergerie de Paris” in which she was imprisoned before her execution. She sings : “it’ll be all right, the aristocrats to the post lamp; it’ll be all right, the aristocrats we will hung them!” which is a pre-revolutionary song sung by the people of Paris. The boat at the end is the emblem of Paris. At the very beginning of the video you can also see a remake of the very famous painting “La liberté guidant le peuple” (Liberty Leading the People) by Delacroix. I hope it helps understanding how great this part of the show is!
Spectaculaire! mais petit anachronisme… le tableau représenté (la liberté guidant le peuple) fait partie de la deuxième révolution française 1830 alors que celle de Marie Antoinette est de 1789, mais personne ne l’a remarqué contrairement au slip de Philippe Katrine 🥴
Thanks for this great explanation of this part of our history. Just a precision, "Ah ça ira !" is rather to be interpreted as "that's enough !" to express the fact that people couldn't stand the situation any more. See you!
@@Thundering19I don’t really agree. “That’s enough” would be translated as “ça suffit”. I don’t think “ça ira” can be translated that way. But thank you for your comment!
Gojira are France’s new musical ambassadors since Daft Punk retired. Which makes sense as they are Harder, Better*, Faster, and Stronger * this one might be a matter of taste, I love Daft Punk and mean them no disrespect
I'd like to rise a point and it was brave and risky to get Gojira. At the end, Gojira is well-known in the metal world, but that is a very small world. Even for people who likes rock, Gojira is very unknown. You cannot compare with Sepultura, for instance, to quote a non English or North American band. So good for them, and good for us!
@@pmc1727birthplace of liberty, mon ami. The French beheaded the king, the queen and the nobles who suck the blood of the people. After that, democracy, freedom and liberty was restored to all of France.
I dunno. London 2012 was pretty freakin' incredible. The image of Mr. Bean playing one note, on the keyboard, over and over and over for Chariots of Fire will be forever etched into my brain. And Queen Elizabeth II (...sure), parachuting down into the stadium with a Union Jack parachute...so iconic.
Imagine the phone call "yeah hi Gojira this is the Olympic committee, how do you feel about opening the Olympics with a badass metal version of a song about the french revolution?"
The correct answer should have been, " Call Gautier Serre. When it comes to opera/ metal fusion that is more French than a baguette smoking a cigarette, he's your guy". But no..... we got this weak mediocre bullsh!t instead.
@@The_Hagseedyeah, if you wanted to cut your audience in half (or a third). It's cool NOT to like something and also NOT take time out of being a brooding elitist jackass to comment poorly about it. People like YOU are why everyone is happy about this performance: moments like this are usually ruined by gatekeeping "metalheads". Also.. not to get too into this, but Igorrr is still finishing up touring for an album they dropped FOUR FUCKING YEARS AGO.
There is an interview from Gojira where they explained when their manager told them about it.. They were speechless for several minutes 😆.. As french, I'm so proud of their performance !
Fkn hell didnt even know gojira was there, id have travelled from austria down there just to see AND hear this. Then enjoy some baguette and go back. Awesome shit :O
I’m not the biggest metal fan but this is the greatest performance I think I’ve ever witnessed. There’s just so many layers as to why this is awesome. I feel like the only downside was I didn’t get to see it live.
Been with Gojira since Mars to Sirius, and I've never been to proud to be a metal head seeing them open the Olympics - fuck yea Gojira, you deserve this and more
C'est la 15e fois que je la regarde, 15 fois que j'ai la chair de poule : Déjà c'est magnifique de reconnaitre le metal, c'est magnifique que ce soit Gojira qui le fasse, c'est magnifique que ce soit des PUTAINS de riffs ultra efficaces et pas un compromis tiède pour satisfaire tout le monde, c'est magnifique que ça ne soit pas du play-back, c'est magnifique que ce soit pour parler de cette partie de notre histoire, et c'est magnifique que ça ait mis tout le monde d'accord. MERCI à Gojira, MERCI à la cantatrice, MERCI à celles et ceux qui ont organisés ça
Si c'était playblack, normal avec la préparation et les risques comme la météo de merde.. Mais par contre la performance de ouf en effet, j'ai surkiffé !! ❤❤
@@rodrigocamelo1809 it would sound even better if they had the raw audio to mix properly. You can barely hear some of the guitar working going on. Those harmonics should be boosted on the intro and maybe mix Joe's vocals a bit better. it would be the same performance, but better
@@Hamter_mental_counseling nobody pays for music nowadays dumb ass. RU-vid is free and Spotify is cheap. Why pay for individual songs. If people wouldn’t pay for unoriginal music, why are Metallica so big? They have some of the most predictable chord sequences in metal. Simmer down purist
Déjà trente fois que je regarde ça. Les frissons quand la chanteuse arrive avec sa jolie voix, et que le chanteur lui répond. Et le final...que c'est bon !
Gojira doing the most Dethklok thing possible for the country, singing about dead beheaded queens on the prison they were held on before their execution and ending it with blood everywhere.