2024 Olympics: Gojira Band Surprises Everyone With Marie Antoinette Moment

You can say Gojira A new French revolution has begun at the Summer Games to be held in Paris in 2024.

As the first heavy metal band ever to perform at the Olympics opening ceremony, the quartet delivered a fiery performance of “Ah! Ça Ira,” a song made famous during the French Revolution, at the Conciergerie on the banks of the Seine on July 26.

Not only did their show light up the city with fireworks, it literally turned heads when one of the performers dressed as a severed head. Marie Antoinette She appeared on screen to sing with her.

“Did the Olympics remove Marie Antoinette’s head while playing French metal? This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,” wrote one viewer on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Meanwhile, one social media user joked: “One thing about the French, they will remind you that they guillotined Marie Antoinette in the name of liberation.”

And that was the main point, according to Gojira’s squad leader. Joe Duplantier.