An emotional Lady Gaga performed a dramatic version of the US national anthem, Garth Brooks sang a cappella, and Tom Hanks hosted a star-studded nighttime
celebration to cap President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. On a day marked by diversity and appeals for unity, Gaga wowed in a huge fuchsia Schiaparelli couture silk skirt and black top adorned by a large gold brooch of a dove carrying an olive branch as she sung The Star-Spangled Banner at Biden’s swearing-in ceremony.
Gaga at one point gestured to the US flag flying high over the Capitol, the seat
of Congress that just two weeks ago was attacked by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump seeking to
overturn Biden’s election victory.
“She slayed it. I AM GAGA FOR GAGA!” actor Ed Helms wrote in a tweet. Ahead of her performance, Gaga said on Twitter she wanted to “acknowledge our past, be healing for our present, and be passionate for a future where we work together lovingly.” Country singer Brooks, a Republican, chose jeans and a black shirt and took off his black Stetson hat to sing an unaccompanied version of Amazing Grace, asking Americans at the ceremony and watching at home to sing the last verse along with him. Jennifer Lopez, dressed in white pants and a long matching coat, performed a medley of This Land is Your Land and America The Beautiful, interjecting in Spanish the part of the US Pledge of Allegiance that says, “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
celebration to cap President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. On a day marked by diversity and appeals for unity, Gaga wowed in a huge fuchsia Schiaparelli couture silk skirt and black top adorned by a large gold brooch of a dove carrying an olive branch as she sung The Star-Spangled Banner at Biden’s swearing-in ceremony.
Gaga at one point gestured to the US flag flying high over the Capitol, the seat
of Congress that just two weeks ago was attacked by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump seeking to
overturn Biden’s election victory.
“She slayed it. I AM GAGA FOR GAGA!” actor Ed Helms wrote in a tweet. Ahead of her performance, Gaga said on Twitter she wanted to “acknowledge our past, be healing for our present, and be passionate for a future where we work together lovingly.” Country singer Brooks, a Republican, chose jeans and a black shirt and took off his black Stetson hat to sing an unaccompanied version of Amazing Grace, asking Americans at the ceremony and watching at home to sing the last verse along with him. Jennifer Lopez, dressed in white pants and a long matching coat, performed a medley of This Land is Your Land and America The Beautiful, interjecting in Spanish the part of the US Pledge of Allegiance that says, “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
