Gaga was smart enough, in a setting that bears endless temptations to pile on visual distractions, to actually strip down her act to the fundamentals. At its core, pop music has an uncomplicated, primal appeal-to make you dance and make you feel.
Indeed, the halftime show felt like a moment for Gaga to return to the basics, and not in the way she did with her faux-roots music reinvention on last year’s album. It was all dopey, earnest fun, an escape from tough realities studded with crystal scepters (for “Telephone”) and, gloriously harkening back to the early days of Gaga’s career, a key-tar (“Just Dance”).
Both Katy Perry and Madonna-recent headliners and no slouches in the spectacle department-saved their big statements for the show’s final moments. Similarly, few in possession of a famous civil-rights anthem (in Gaga’s case, the LGBT-equality song “Born This Way,” a tune that feels less hokey now than it did upon release) would have uncorked it third in the setlist. Any singer could probably have trained enough to have pulled off Gaga’s aerial stunts, but few would have been so bold to open the show with them. Her performance began with a performance of “God Bless America” and “This Land is Your Land” that felt less substantial than the declaration of independence that followed-a pop star unbound by the usual rules of gravity, stadium safety and good sense. While the drones still could have operated, they said, Gaga couldn't have flown down from a closed stadium roof.īut Gaga did drop from the top of NRG Stadium in the prerecorded bit and didn't use a stunt double, so we can still be impressed.Ĭlever editing made it appear both at home and on the jumbotrons at the stadium that Gaga's drop from the top of the stadium led directly to her flight on cables in the middle of the stadium.But perhaps the best argument against malaise at large is working hard to put forth as much quality and energy as one can. Basically, if it had rained during the Super Bowl, the roof of the stadium where Gaga was standing would have been closed. The Intel sources said the opening jump was filmed ahead of time because of "weather and environment" issues.
USA Today spoke to two top people at Intel Drones - which provided the drones in the sky behind Gaga that displayed the US flag and the Pepsi logo - who confirmed that her stunt was done in advance. It often indicates a user profile.īut it turns out the drop from the top of NRG was actually a prerecorded stunt. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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