With fire, choreographed drones and acrobatics, Lady Gaga blew the roof off the NRG Stadium for the 51st Super Bowl halftime show.
The pop superstar opened her epic halftime set by singing “God Bless America” on the roof of the Super Bowl stadium before vaulting out into the night and landing on her elaborate stage.
Her set list from the field included “Poker Face,” “Born This Way,” “Hello, Hello,” “Just Dance,” “Million Reasons,” and “Bad Romance.” She ended her show by ‘dropping the mic’, catching a ball, and jumping out of the frame.
At one point, during “Million Reasons,” a song about deciding whether to leave or stay with a lover, Gaga shouted out her parents, watching somewhere in the stadium. She hugged fans during the middle of songs, and she seemed to just soak everything in.
The halftime show is a huge gig, happening right in the middle of what’s commonly the United States’ biggest annual television event. The Super Bowl’s halftime normally lasts close to a half-hour, roughly twice the period of time that’s set aside during a regular NFL game.
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Gaga, 30, is a six-time Grammy winner, and she also won a 2015 Golden Globe. Her fifth studio album, Joanne, came out last fall. She earned widespread acclaim for her on-screen performance in American Horror Story: Hotel, and she is slated to appear in Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born, due out by 2018.
The entire performance was meant to be inclusive and tailored in the “spirit of equality,” Gaga said that her act would be for everyone.
“This performance is for everyone,” she said at a press conference last week. “I want to, more than anything, create a moment that everyone that’s watching will never forget.”
Prior to her performance on Sunday, Gaga was one of the biggest musical stars in the world who hadn’t taken this stage. She followed Coldplay, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, and Madonna as lead acts over the last five years.
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