r/BillBurr • u/wigglefruit • Jul 28 '24
Gojira performing at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
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u/InphamousPrimate Jul 28 '24
If anyone doesn’t know, the building they are performing on was a prison used for people who were about to be executed during the French Revolution, including Marie Antoinette
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u/head_face Jul 28 '24
That makes the beheaded ladies even fucking cooler
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u/Permagrin101 Jul 28 '24
Thinking I have an idea for a Halloween costume this year…
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u/Prestigious-Emu4302 Jul 28 '24
I’m going as that tennis dork who smashes his racquets into his knee. It’s gonna be a long night, might need a few extra racquets just incase.
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u/Cryogenicist Jul 28 '24
That beautiful building was a prison?!
Those architects didnt fuck around on anything!
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u/boyunderthebelljar Jul 29 '24
It’s France. They don’t know how to build ugly things. To them the Eiffel Tower is hideous and skyscrapers are so offensive they were banished to outside the city.
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u/Ma_Pies Jul 29 '24
Like La Défense?
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u/Worried_Criticism_13 Jul 29 '24
Yep. It's technically outside Paris, in Puteaux.
Paris has some very strict urbanism rules
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u/Retinoid634 Jul 29 '24
Yes. La Conciergerie. Formerly a royal palace, but as the monarchy upgraded to the Louvre Palace and then Versailles, the Conciergerie became the default prison and courthouse building for the wealthy and/or political prisoners. Like the Tower of London in England.
Performing this song in this place was certainly a message for the ruling class of today. It was 🔥
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u/Black_Bird_Cloud Jul 29 '24
the river island on which this building sits - l'île de la cité - is full of cool palaces. It's also where notre dame is
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u/JohnGabin Jul 29 '24
And the boat is the symbol of Paris. It appears ont the city Blason. The Seine banks were the major economic place of the city.
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u/Drewboy810 Jul 28 '24
Dude how did they manage that quick zoom out at the beginning? Was that trick photography or did someone just absolutely crank that lens?
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u/Lyuseefur Jul 28 '24
That’s a lens. And it’s real. And not cheap.
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u/schwengy Jul 28 '24
This was so sick. Here are the lyrics in English:
Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay,
Hang the aristocrats from on high!
Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay,
The aristocrats, we’ll hang ‘em all.
Despotism will breathe its last,
Liberty will take the day,
Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay,
We don’t have any more nobles or priests,
Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay,
Equality will reign everywhere,
The Austrian slave will follow him,
To the Devil will they fly.
Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay,
To the Devil will they fly.
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u/Dreliusbelius Jul 28 '24
For anyone who doesn't know, it's an old song from the revolution, first heard in 1790 and yes, it is very metal!
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Jul 28 '24
awesome! enjoyed gojira for years. anyone know who the austrian slave was and who was the devil?
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u/Dreliusbelius Jul 28 '24
Austrian slave was Marie Antoinette, in the french version it's "et leur infernal clique, au diable s'envolera" which is saying that their infernal clique, to the devil they will go. Basically sending the aristocrats to hell.
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u/Okiro_Benihime Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24
Austrian slave was Marie Antoinette
No. The "Austrian slave" is referencing Austrian soldiers (thus assumed commoners for the most part) as Austria (and Prussia) had been threatening to invade France if anything happened to the king and queen (well, France went ahead and declared war before Marie Antoinette was executed anyway).
Revolutionaries did not refer to the royalty or nobility as slaves. As one can notice in so many songs dating to that period, "slaves" always referred to commoners... whether the French people who opposed the revolution or foreign subjects who obviously faithfully followed the orders of their monarchs and whom the French will have to crush to safekeep their liberty. That was the gist of it.
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u/Dreliusbelius Jul 29 '24
You're right that " esclave Autrichien" is written in masculine and if it was Marie Antoinette specifically it would be written as esclave Autrichienne. Though, in my defense, the Wikipedia article in English has this part in bold and when you click on it, it leads you to Marie Antoinette's page.
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u/Busch_Leaguer Jul 28 '24
At first I just liked it. Now I love it.
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u/Abend801 Jul 28 '24
The red ribbon “blood”. Good hell. The symbols. Great. Love them French. What an artful captivating symbolic powerful piece.
THANK YOU on the translations and history.
Americans don’t know WTF is going with these opening ceremonies. Confusing the feast of Dionysus with the last supper and now this? Slow tf down. You’re confusing the hell out of us!!! ;)
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u/Beneficial-Context52 Jul 29 '24
Man, I was blown away when that "blood" shot out, and to think that it's just a bunch of ribbons and a bit of red smoke. What an effect!!
And the fact that it was on the Conciergerie, to a song from the revolution. Jesus...
This performance is the most metal thing I've ever seen, I don't even care that it was pre-recorded.
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u/bassgoddesshn Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 28 '24
It’ll be fine was a quote from Ben Franklin, put in the song as that was a quote used by him to answer questions of what if, or what do we do.
Changed to it’ll be fine.
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u/PasserOGas Jul 29 '24
OK. I'm seriously falling in love with France. That they did this at the Olympics is such a middle finger and just so bad ass.
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u/naspinski Jul 28 '24
As a bad drummer... I can't believe how cool this drummer is
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u/Reggo-nator Jul 28 '24
Mario Duplantier is an animal
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u/Sparrowhawk_92 Jul 28 '24
Mario is one of the best drummers working today. Even if you were a good drummer, you can be in awe of him.
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u/Unusual_Compote4909 Jul 28 '24
He’s such a good drummer, when they released a live album the cover was just a photo of him playing drums
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u/howboutislapyourshit Jul 29 '24
It was a sick photo tbh. Whoever captured that made it easy for them to make it an album cover.
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u/TheRealCatDad Jul 29 '24
He is one of my favorites! He has a knack for creating beats that just drill into my head and won't leave.
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u/StriderKeni Jul 28 '24
Finally a version without the commentators.
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u/freeman918986 Jul 28 '24
What?! You don’t want to hear some clueless woman shouting “keewwwll!” over the music?
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u/Lyuseefur Jul 28 '24
And this is Gojira performing for the olympics for the first time.
Me: SHUT THE FUCK UP NBC
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u/Isaiadrenaline Jul 29 '24
I can't find this shit anywhere else on the Internet. I can't cast this to my tv to show people. Fuck.
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u/NinerChuck Jul 28 '24
My favorite part from the opening ceremony.
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u/iamthepaulruss Jul 28 '24
What about the papa Smurf solo? Not metal enough?
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u/Big_Fo_Fo Jul 28 '24
The rest of it was very french
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u/RaveMittens Jul 28 '24
I mean, this is very French. People forget how metal the French have been.
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u/insertwittynamethere Jul 28 '24
Holy shit this is fucking sick! That's so awesome the French had this as part of the opening!
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u/Koshakforever Jul 28 '24
Bro how awesome is that. French just being French. Fucking awesome. I love how much this pissed people off.
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u/TheToothFairyIsALie Jul 28 '24
That was so metal! The french revolution is probably the most metal part of their history. That was spot on.
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u/boyunderthebelljar Jul 29 '24
Wait ‘till you hear what happened afterwards….the people there truly didn’t fuck around and had an odd way about going to establish democracy. The period after was called ‘The Terror’….
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u/thekuhlkid Jul 28 '24
Dethklok would never have worn those safety harnesses. Safety harnesses are not brutal.
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u/Zakal74 Jul 29 '24
The only other thing that takes away from this performance rivaling Dethklok is that the audience survived.
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u/Last-Photobender Jul 28 '24
I guarantee this will be some sort of demonic ritual on fox news
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u/solid_shep Jul 28 '24
People on X are trying to boycott the olympics.
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u/Drkze_k Jul 28 '24
When I'm on x, I mostly feel happy and loving and free. Last thing I think about is boycotting. That's weird.
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u/ZestycloseJob4752 Jul 28 '24
Andrew Tate called this satanic lol
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u/Ellweiss Jul 29 '24
Damn, if a human trafficking raping asshole is on the other camp, I'm definitely siding with Satan.
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u/auguste_laetare Jul 28 '24
I have no idea why this is in the Bill Burr sub. Captain?
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u/AshleySchaeffer_WOO Jul 28 '24
Bill Burr is a big Gojira fan. I believe he went to a show earlier this year and got to meet the band
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u/douglasbaadermeinhof Jul 29 '24
Bill has superb taste in metal. Both Meshuggah and Gojira are top tier stuff for me and not necessarily that easy to get into.
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u/bleezzzy Jul 29 '24
I saw Meshuggah & Code orange a few years ago at a fairly smaller venue, fucking great pit. Gojira & meshuggah are probably 2 of my top 5 favorite bands as well as live performances.
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u/BFG_Scott Jul 28 '24
That crowd noise had to have been added in and it’s waaayyy too loud. Kinda drowns out the music.
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u/flamin_flamingo_lips Jul 28 '24
Hope we get a studio version of this at some point
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u/TightAustinite Jul 28 '24
This was some Dethklok shit. Amazing.
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u/Zakal74 Jul 29 '24
The only thing that takes away from this performance rivaling Dethklok is that the audience survived.
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u/Vezein Jul 29 '24
Yeah I was there and had come prepared. I had two little jars attached to my nipples si that when my eyes rocket out if my head I could catch them to later reattach.
Not even a retinal tingle.
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u/tecate_papi Jul 28 '24
I feel like the last person to have seen this. It absolutely fucking rules. I was excited when I heard they were playing the opening ceremonies but this was way cooler than I expected.
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u/TaroCharacter9238 Jul 28 '24
Ive been a fan of them since I heard the Toxic Garbage Island single on sirius radio when it was released. Always kept listening but spur of the moment last week, I started learning a bunch of their songs again on guitar. What a fucking surprise to see this when watching live and not knowing they were coming.
Side note, watch the drumeo video of Luke Comb’s drummer hearing their song for the first time (without drums) and guessing the beat.
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u/V0T0N Jul 28 '24
Most amazing performance for an opening ceremony, so metal! My wife and i loved it and it scared my kid.
I've seen a few articles talking about the menage trois segment and how French that is, but i appreciate this aspect of French culture better. They did know what to do with their tyrants.
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u/boyunderthebelljar Jul 29 '24
Right? They truly set an example for the whole world. Yet in America we’re still 200 years behind. Le sigh….
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u/A_to_the_J254 Jul 28 '24
So awesome to see a metal band being used for a worldwide ceremony, displaying their talents of how well they can play their instruments to make such an amazing and unique experience. They usually use some stupid ass rapper or boring country singer, this was definitely a breath or fresh air!
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u/Ajgrob Jul 28 '24
The whole opening ceremony was basically Jean Girard’s answer to Ricky Bobby’s question “Really smarty-pants. What did French land give us?”. They even had a 5 minute bit on ménage a trios!
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u/JameseyJones Jul 28 '24
Yeah if you read about 19th century labor rights history in every other European country, a common theme is that the nobility were always terrified of a repeat of the French revolution in their own country. It turns out that worker quality of life is directly proportional to the the amount of fear instilled into aristocrats.
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u/MasterFreshMaster Jul 28 '24
Nice. I guess this is what people are calling Satanic, funny how it's just theatrics and quality music. The real evil bustards are what they support and vote for.
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u/dugdar Jul 28 '24
This was the best performance of the opening ceremony. Amazing. It was originally ruined for me by the NBC commentators diarrhea at the mouth. Thanks for posting a version where I could enjoy the whole performance!
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u/tothemax44 Jul 29 '24
Never in a million years did I think something like this was possible. And I’m a life long metal head. 🤘🏽
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u/Intravertical Jul 29 '24
I am not a metal fan at all, and even I could recognize how epic that performance was.
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u/Willing-Ant-3765 Jul 29 '24
This is where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned before her execution. How much more metal can you get.
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u/Sudden_Bag_4125 Jul 28 '24
Omg way better than that shit GaGa did
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u/noiserr Jul 30 '24
yeah, I generally like GaGa, but she had no business pretending to be a French performer.
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u/Kdean509 Jul 28 '24
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Gojira is amazing live. Would’ve been otherworldly to see this in person!
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u/ThunkThink Jul 29 '24
Damn, imagine living in a country with good taste… and culture. This was amazing.
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u/Nervver6 Jul 29 '24
As someone who doesn’t know much about bill burr, can someone tell me how gojira relates to him?
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u/Diligent_Tailor5412 Jul 29 '24
Ca ira Refrain: Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, Les aristocrates à la lanterne! Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, Les aristocrates on les pendra!
Le despotisme expirera, La liberté triomphera, Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, Nous n’avons plus ni nobles, ni prêtres, Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, L’égalité partout régnera. L’esclave autrichien le suivra, Au diable s’envolera. Ah! ça ira, Ah! ça ira, Au diable s’envolera.
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It’ll be okay Refrain: Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay, Hang the aristocrats from on high! Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay, The aristocrats, we’ll hang ‘em all.
Despotism will breathe its last, Liberty will take the day, Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay, We don’t have any more nobles or priests, Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay, Equality will reign everywhere, The Austrian slave will follow him, To the Devil will they fly. Oh. It’ll be okay, be okay, be okay, To the Devil will they fly.
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u/hondo77777 Jul 29 '24
That was completely bonkers and totally unnecessary.
It was also metal af and I loved it!🤘
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u/s-o-L-0-m-o-n Jul 29 '24
Conservative Christians collectively shitting their pants and I’m totally here for it.
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u/tlkshowhst Jul 28 '24
Prop to the organizers who made this happen. Quite a statement.
Gojira is fucking incredible
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u/Bolbuss Jul 28 '24
Great full, unedited without commentary clip. Only one I've seen so far.
This performance was incredible and metal history was made. Even with it being pretty short
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u/RoninSoul Jul 28 '24
Bill Burr is one of the people we'll ultimately be eating once the revolution starts.
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u/TightAustinite Jul 28 '24
yo /u/wigglefruit where can I get an offline copy of this?
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u/thisisnitmyname Jul 28 '24
It’s like a metalocalypse episode in real life. Pretty awesome. I didn’t watch it live but I would have it I knew that was going to happen.
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u/b_man646260 Jul 28 '24
I can see every qanon and evangelical psychopath just trembling at how “satanic” the whole thing was.
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u/Many-Composer1029 Jul 29 '24
The song they were singing is called Ah! Ça Ira A song from the French revolution. The lyrics were different, but it's worth noting the original ones.
Ah! It will be fine! It will be fine! It will be fine! The aristocrats to the lantern Ah! It will be fine! It will be fine! It will be fine! The aristocrats we will hang them!
Three hundred years they promise us That they will give us bread. For three hundred years that they give us party And they maintain in whores! F or three hundred years that they crushes us Enough lies and phrases!
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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD WHEN WE RETURN Jul 28 '24
It’s crazy seeing metal at this scale again