Lady Gaga released her duet with Arianna Grande last week, entitled “Rain On Me”. Fans have praised the video and worked hard to learn the dance moves, posting the results to social media.
What could be more impressive than just recreating the moves? How about performing the dance as actual rain lashes down upon you?
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When one social media influencer, Andres Castro (@andresqcastro) in Houston, Texas, saw rain forecast, the vegan chef took the opportunity to show off his “Rain On Me” moves in his back yard. However, the routine had to be quickly aborted when a tree came hurtling toward him.
Much of South Texas was lashed by extreme storms yesterday, with some local authorities even issuing tornado warnings.
@andresqcastroAlmost died doing the Rain on Me dance. ⛈ ##rainonme ##fail ##fyp @arianagrande @ladygaga♬ Rain On Me – Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande
Castro also posted the video to Twitter, where’s it’s been viewed over a million times. “I said Rain on Me not drop a tree on me,” he said in a caption accompanying the video.
I said Rain on Me not drop a tree on me 🥺👉🏼👈🏼 @ArianaGrande @ladygaga #rainonme pic.twitter.com/n6wUg34RIc
— A N D R E S 🇲🇽 (@andresqcastro) May 27, 2020
He also posted before and after photos of the damage.
Before & After pic.twitter.com/KZ7IL5u7or
— A N D R E S 🇲🇽 (@andresqcastro) May 28, 2020
In answer to one person’s question, he assured followers the incident was not planned and was indeed very frightening.
Not planned. Was frightening af haha
— A N D R E S 🇲🇽 (@andresqcastro) May 28, 2020
Many commentators quipped on the lyrics to Gaga’s new single.
but he’d rather be dry…
— ChromaticaBoy (@alalgagalala) May 27, 2020
Others wondered if the tree was homophobic.
That tree said NO TO GAY RIGHTS
— Kylie Gabor (@iamkyliegabor) May 27, 2020
We’re glad to report Andres appeared unhurt by the incident. Lady Gaga’s new album, Chromatica, is released tomorrow.
Delivering #Chromatica myself to every retailer around the world… in Chromatica time and distance do not exist 🤪 https://t.co/4Kko04hk4v pic.twitter.com/vKEpyxLcBg
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) May 27, 2020
Neoprene
Darn. That coulda been so legendary dude!
Toofie
Thankfully he got out of the way and has a cool clip now.
Brian
I know it shouldn’t anymore, but it still blows my mind that adults do things like this. I’m trying to imagine my parents learning and recording themselves doing the Thriller dance and it just would have never happened. I was 14 then and even I was aging out of that kind of stuff.
missvamp
i’m near galveston- the storms here are no joke. my mom’s street looked like a war zone last night. it was dark out when i woke up at 2pm today- looked like it was 8pm!
jackmister
I did not know god was a music critic.
ScottOnEarth
If you look closely, Madonna was up in that tree with a saw.
sfhairy
5k followers is not a social media influencer, but glad he wasn’t hurt by the falling tree.
Bromancer7
Dayum, God just tried to punish him not only for liking this crap song but I’m sure for also being vegan.