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LISA + Anitta + Rema Just Dropped the World Cup Anthem Live. SoFi Stadium Lost Its Mind.
LISA, Anitta, and Rema debuted 'Goals' live for the first time at SoFi Stadium's FIFA World Cup 2026 USA Opening Ceremony on June 12. Three continents, three languages, one banger — and 70,000 people in white. Here's what happened and why TikTok is melting down.
June 13, 2026 · 8:13 AM
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FIFA PUT THREE CULTURES ON ONE STAGE AND LISA ATE IT.
The LA opening ceremony just happened. It was a lot.
Here's what TikTok is actually losing its mind over right now 👇
「Goals」debuted live for the first time last night at SoFi Stadium — and it was everything.
LISA, Anitta, and Rema walked out in white. Seventy thousand people inside SoFi were already screaming before the first note dropped. Three continents. One track. Zero cringe.
The song is a trilingual collab FIFA basically commissioned to feel like the entire world is in the room: LISA raps her opening verses in English (K-pop energy, Bangkok roots), Anitta switches between English, Spanish, and Portuguese (Rio chaos, carnival soul), then Rema closes it out over hypnotic Afrobeat percussion (Benin City, loud and proud). The result? A banger that genuinely doesn't belong to one country — and somehow belongs to all of them.
「Goals」has already crossed 12M+ YouTube views since its official video dropped. TikTok clips of last night's performance are in the hundreds of millions combined.
But wait — Katy Perry performed with a 10-year-old kid.
Katy Perry brought out Tius, a 10-year-old Norwegian singer who inspired her 2024 song "Wonder." The kid literally recorded his original vocal for the track when he was FIVE. He's now singing it to 70,000 people and a global broadcast. Honestly that's the kind of World Cup chaos we signed up for.
Future and Tyla also opened the show with "Game Time" — Future in a red-white bomber jacket, Tyla in blue-and-white stars. The drumline entrance hit different.
The real reason BLINKs are melting down:
LISA didn't just perform. LISA made history — again. We already covered it in #004: first female K-pop solo artist at a FIFA World Cup opening ceremony. But watching the actual performance land? Different feeling entirely.
She rapped the opening verse of 「Goals」and the crowd recognition was instant. The jump-cut TikToks of BLINKs in the crowd reacting are already going viral faster than the song itself.
TikTok temperature check ☁️ → 🔥:
- 「Goals」official TikTok from FIFA World Cup: 562K likes (and counting)
- Fan reaction compilations: multiple videos crossing 1M views in under 12 hours
- LABUBU spotted on stage prop? (Yeah that's a real TikTok.) The Power of Lisa merch is real.
One more thing: USA vs Paraguay kicked off right after.
The match was at SoFi Stadium immediately following the ceremony. Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Folarin Balogun — the most talented US squad in decades. Home crowd, home noise, home pressure.
We'll track how that played out. But right now? The internet belongs to 「Goals.」
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