Below, Billboard highlights five of the suitable moments from an moving and impactful virtual match.
Dua Lipa Brings the Oscars Glam
Right because of there wasn’t an in-particular person gala didn’t mean Dua Lipa dressed down for the evening. In actual fact, the pop star went all-out glam for a pair of two-song sets, carrying a floor-size, long-sleeve gloomy velvet turtleneck gown with a feather-duster bid, topped off with a plump chain-hyperlink diamond necklace and a swish gloomy hairstyle. Her four backup singers and bandmembers – including two guitars, a keyboard and a string share – adopted her dress code in tuxes and gloomy apparel, surrounded by mirrored partitions and feathered bouquets. However what referring to the song? That modified into all class too, as Lipa delivered orchestral preparations of her Billboard Hot 100 top five hits “Don’t Originate up Now” and “Levitating,” to boot to two extra tracks from her Grammy-a hit Future Nostalgia album: “Hallucinate” and “Slightly Please.” (Extra Dua to near…)
Cynthia Erivo Turns an Elton Classic Into Oscars Trivialities
All of us know and luxuriate in “Your Track,” nonetheless this model modified into a miniature bit bit silly. Actress Cynthia Erivo modified the lyrics of Elton’s 1971 top 10 Hot 100 hit to a sequence of famed lines from Oscar-a hit motion photographs, stringing collectively “Repeat me the money,” “I’m your father,” “Shaken no longer stirred,” “Here’s lookin’ at you, child,” “I’m the king of the realm!” and extra along to the famed melody, for a miniature bit film trivia delivered via pop song. Simplest of all: Erivo wore a flamingo-decorated cocktail dress that recalled Björk’s homely swan dress on the 2001 Oscars.
Lady Gaga Urges the Significance of Psychological Neatly being
Lady Gaga has repeatedly been an recommend for mental health, in particular by her Born This Design Foundation, so or no longer it’s no surprise that she has teamed up with her correct pal and his Elton John AIDS Foundation to champion mental health programs for kids combating AIDS. In a videotaped message, Gaga mentioned, “This final twelve months has taken an big toll on the mental health of people around the globe. Our mental health is valuable to our physical health, and this is in particular apt to kids combating HIV. … We could possibly no longer conclude the AIDS crisis except we provide luxuriate in both mental and physical health,” she implored.
Olly Alexander FaceTimes His Castmates
The solid of It’s a Sin — the drama sequence situation all around the 1980s AIDS crisis that originally aired on the U.Okay.’s Channel 4 and is now streaming on HBO Max — sidled up to the bar and chatted with Sir Elton and his husband, David Furnish, while singing along to John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright.” Unnecessary to hiss, the Oscars are repeatedly on Sunday, so John suggested they update the lyric to a extra appropriate day. Lacking from the crew modified into Olly Alexander, who FaceTimed with co-star Lydia West and mentioned he modified into busy selling his new Years and Years song “Starstruck” and modified into bowled over to explore all his castmates hanging out with Elton John without him. “We omit you, Olly!” John called to the musician/actor.
Elton John Duets With Dua for the Very First Time
This modified into the key match: The evening’s leisure teamed up with the evening’s host. After Dua’s outfit change into a sequined and fringed long-sleeve silver dress to match John’s pink-sequined blazer, the duo took turns duetting on each and each other’s songs, starting with John’s Hot 100 chart-topper “Bennie and the Jets” (gaze video above). Subsequent up modified into Future Nostalgia deep decrease “Love Again,” with Elton staying on the piano and seeming to hang an in particular correct time growling the line “goddamn, that it’s probably you’ll hang purchased me in luxuriate in again.” Dua blew a kiss to Elton after the performance and mentioned, “What a dream and an honor. Elton, thanks so valuable for having me!”
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