Bad information, Lady Gaga followers: the pop star is, sadly, not performing her nominated single on the 2023 Oscars. Gaga, who’s up for finest unique tune this 12 months, was anticipated to probably carry out her “Top Gun: Maverick” contribution, “Hold My Hand.” But on March 8, Oscars govt producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss introduced that she is not going to, in actual fact, be blessing the stage along with her vocals — and there is a affordable rationalization for why.
“We have an ideal relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp. She is in the course of capturing a film proper now,” he stated throughout a artistic crew press convention, per Variety. “Here, we’re honoring the film business and what it takes to make a film after a bunch of forwards and backwards . . . It did not really feel like she will get a efficiency to the caliber that we’re used to along with her and that she is used to. So, she will not be going to carry out on the present.”
The film Gaga is at present filming is the highly-anticipated “Joker” sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux.” It’s nonetheless unclear what character the four-time Oscar-nominated star performs within the movie installment, nevertheless it should be a demanding position contemplating she was unable to squeeze in rehearsal time for an Oscars efficiency. The final time she carried out on the present was in 2019 when she sang her Oscar-winning tune “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born.”
Deadline reported that Gaga advised Oscars present producers she solely plans to attend this 12 months’s ceremony as a nominee, however there are nonetheless some thrilling performances to stay up for from 4 of the 5 finest unique tune nominees. Rihanna is ready to ship a shocking efficiency of her “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” observe “Lift Me Up”; “Everything Everywhere All at Once“‘s Stephanie Hsu will hit the stage with David Byrne and Son Lux to carry out “This Is a Life”; Sofia Carson and Diane Warren will carry out a rendition of “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman”; and “RRR”‘s “Naatu Naatu” will even be carried out by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.
The 2023 Oscars airs on ABC on March 12 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.