Will Lady Gaga pull a Meryl Streep come the singer’s halftime show at Super Bowl 51 in Houston?
Hollywood Life suggests that Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (her real name) won’t reprise the Streep attack from the Golden Globes.
“Instead of focusing on how much she disagrees with Trump and his administration’s policies, the Mother Monster will go in a different direction,” the site said Tuesday.
It quoted a source “close to the singer” as saying: “Lady Gaga is looking to show a message of peace and love with her performance at the Super Bowl. She doesn’t want to alienate a portion of the audience and use her time to bash Donald Trump. It is her time in the spotlight and to her he doesn’t need anymore press, so she isn’t going to focus her performance on him.”
Hollywood Life speculated that Gaga would address Texas Republicans hoping to pass Senate Bill 6, which would force “transgender Texans to use public bathrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth,” similar to North Carolina’s House Bill 2.
“She plans to make a statement of equality,” the source told HollywoodLife.com. “So, while she may not have her sights set on Donald, expect Gaga to use her Super Bowl spotlight to make a stunning statement!”
Ironically, the multiracial Up With People group hit on similar themes back when the Arizona-based group performed at the Super Bowl in 1971, 1976, 1980 and 1982.
Their theme song contained these lyrics:
If more people were for people
All people ev’rywhere
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care.
People from the south-land and people from the north
Like a mighty army I saw them coming forth.
‘Twas a great reunion befitting of a king!
Then I realized people were more important than things.
Others put in their Gaga requests:
“Maybe I have something small planned. That would really upset people though – I won’t do that, don’t worry.” -Gaga on her halftime show pic.twitter.com/RZzwqDrZe5
— LVL GAGA (@LVLGAGA) January 16, 2017
Gaga better pull a stunt with an outfit at the Superbowl halftime show
— Snix Moscato (@Snix48) January 17, 2017
Gaga running out of her halftime show after she sings BTW & the straights riot pic.twitter.com/cmlFzUcWat
— Lady Gaga (@rejoicegaga) January 16, 2017
The iconic Katy Perry will have held the record for most viewed halftime show in history for 2 years, until its broken by Lady Gaga in 2017!
— ty (@creationofgodga) January 7, 2017