{"id":2128661,"date":"2025-11-01T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2128661"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:22:20","slug":"florence-and-the-machine-perform-witchy-rendition-of-lady-gagas-abracadabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/florence-and-the-machine-perform-witchy-rendition-of-lady-gagas-abracadabra\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence and the Machine Perform Witchy Rendition of Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Abracadabra\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florence and the Machine had the perfect Halloween-themed performance for their visit to SiriusXM. Backed by a stunning harp, Florence Welch delivered a mashup of 2015\u2019s \u201cWhich Witch\u201d and Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem favorite \u201cAbracadabra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Welch opened with her heresy-referencing How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful song, followed by an evocative fiddle-flute transition into the Gaga track. The band concluded the performance by returning to \u201cWhich Witch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The timing of the cover couldn\u2019t have been more kismet. During her Mayhem Ball Tour stop in Barcelona Wednesday night, Lady Gaga snuck in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/891502427371312\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cHey Girl,\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cHey Girl,\u201d<\/a> her duet with Welch from 2016\u2019s Joanne. It was Gaga\u2019s first time performing the song live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=109Z86KAajU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:interview;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">interview<\/a> last month, Welch spoke about her love for Gaga\u2019s early music. \u201cIn 2009, I was only listening to Lady Gaga, that was it,\u201d she told Triple J. \u201cWhether I would listen to this [album, Everybody Scream], I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back in 2016, Gaga also shared her appreciation for Welch after their time working together. \u201cFlorence and I, when we were working together, we laughed, we cried, we hugged each other,\u201d Gaga <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/lady-gaga-talks-working-with-beck-florence-welch-mark-ronson-new-album-7503667\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> to Elvis Duran, adding in a later <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/xycYufteZ1c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Heat Radio interview;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Heat Radio interview<\/a>: \u201cHer voice is sensational. She\u2019s one of the greatest singers in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Welch\u2019s SiriusXM visit comes as she continues to promote Florence and the Machine\u2019s album, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/trick-treat-florence-machine-album-134601185.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Everybody Scream;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Everybody Scream<\/a>, which drops Friday. 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Backed by a stunning harp, Florence Welch delivered a mashup of 2015\u2019s \u201cWhich Witch\u201d and Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem favorite \u201cAbracadabra.\u201d Welch opened with her heresy-referencing How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful song, followed by an evocative fiddle-flute transition into the Gaga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2128662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[365549,342478,342479,25405,314737],"class_list":["post-2128661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-abracadabra","tag-florence-and-the-machine","tag-florence-welch","tag-lady-gaga","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Florence-and-the-Machine-Perform-Witchy-Rendition-of-Lady-Gagas.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128663,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128661\/revisions\/2128663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}