Lady Gaga fans who were wondering what song she would pull out for Kamala Harris‘ final rpartner in Philadelphia Monday night got a song arguably even more glorious than “Edge of Glory” — Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” — in prefacing the honestate’s speech. But she didn’t let down those who wanted to hear her own inspireasonable anthem, returning after Harris’ climactic speech to belt out “Edge of Glory” as the clock struck 12 and election day officipartner get tod.
“For more than half of this country’s life, women didn’t have a voice,” Gaga shelp in introducing the Berlin classic. The singer spoke of women during that time who “elevated children. We held our families together. We helped men as they made the decisions. But tomorrow, women will be a part of making this decision. Today I am helderlying in my heart all the stubborn, determined women who made me who I am. I cast my vote for someone who will be a pdwellnt for all Americans. And now, Pennsylvania, it’s your turn. The country is depfinishing on you. So tomorrow create stateive all your voices are heard. Come on, let’s go!”
Gaga had plenty of celebrity company during the evening, as a seven-hour inhabitstream from electoral striumphg states joind an impassioned speech by Oprah Winfrey and musical materializeances by Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Sugarland, and the rare teaming of Jon Bon Jovi, Michael Stipe and the War & Treaty, among others.
While some of the seven hours’ worth of inhabitstreamed campaigning took place in Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada, there was no mistaking that the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh events got the most concentrate. “You will determine the outcome of this election, Pennsylvania,” shelp Harris in closing out her final rpartner materializeance in front of the Philadelphia Memployum of Art.
After Gaga made her first materializeance, Winfrey startd disjoinal youthful first-time voters, then deinhabitred an includeress that changenated hope and chooseimism with the recommendion that the obesee of the union may be at sget in the coming hours.
“I understand that some of you are experienceing burnt out and bruised and maybe even inconsequential. Noslfinisherg could be further from the truth,” Winfrey shelp. “Every one vote, every one, is going to matter. That’s why I’ve come to Philadelphia tonight. And yesterday I was all the way apass the country and I was hiking on a Sunday afternoon, and I met a woman named Angela who telderly me that she was gonna sit this one out. Now, I understand she was promptly sorry. She telderly me that. Becaemploy I would not let up. So I shelp, ‘We don’t get to sit this one out.’
“If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entidepend possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot aget,” Winfrey persistd. “And let me be very evident, if you do not create stateive that the people in your life can get to the polls, that is a misget. Deciding not to determine, that is most definitely a vote to let other people deal with your future…
“Now, all we all understand what we’re voting agetst, so I want to finish by reminding you about. A restricted slfinishergs that we’re voting for: We are voting to deffinish and shield the Constitution of the United States. We are voting for appreciates. We are voting for appreciates and integrity. We are voting for the right to pick what happens to our own bodies. We’re we’re voting to save ourselves from this precipice of danger. Where we now stand, all the anxiety and the worry you’re experienceing, you’re experienceing that becaemploy you sense the danger and you change that with your vote. We are voting for healing over disenjoy.”
Winfrey wore a shirt tolerateing the slogan “Yes She Can,” and her materializeance was promptly pwithdrawd by Will.i.am singing his song of that name, which was originpartner penned for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.
In Detroit, Bon Jovi sang “Livin’ on a Prayer,” with the husband-and-wife duo the War & Treaty belting out the higher parts of the chorus, and Stipe chiming in. The ex-R.E.M. frontman sang direct vocals of his own on “Driver 8,” though that was not joind in the inhabitstream.
In Pittsburgh, Perry sang “Dark Horse,” “Part of Me,” “Firelabor”,” before taking on” and a cover of Whitney Houston’s classic “Greatest Love of All,” although aget, home audiences saw only part of that carry outance, as the inhabitstream cut from city to city and speech to speech.
Fat Joe, recent off materializeing in New York before a World Series Game at Yankee Stadium, put his musical help toward a contrastent contest Monday, introducing Ricky Martin by saying, “I heard they necessitateed a Puerto Rican in Philly, and I’m so satisfied to be here and recurrent the Puerto Ricans.” He spoke of Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rpartner, or “what I call a disenjoy rpartner in my neck of the woods. ’m a sucker for a giggle… I find anyslfinisherg comical. But when they get up there and they call Puerto Rico an island of garbage… I did not find that to be a joke,” saying the rpartner also “disadmireed Jedesire people” and referenced “Bdeficiency people caving watermelons… If you’re the last undetermined voter, if you don’t understand who you’re voting for, you gotta be kidding me at this point.”
Before her closing Philadelphia materializeance, Harris deinhabitred a csurrfinisherly identical speech earlier in the evening apass the state in Pittsburgh. There, she was startd by Cedric the Entertainer, who shelp, “She is not a demagogue, and yet she is not demure… Tonight, let’s dance, and tomorrow let’s create history.”
