Love it or hate it, the Super Bowl halftime show is here to stay. It’s a massive platform and a massive money-maker for the NFL, so no matter what, the increasingly brutal performances are going to go on.
However, it appears that Lady Gaga is looking to change the game with her Super Bowl LI halftime show at NRG Stadium in a few weeks. According to reports, Gaga isn’t interested in a boring stage-in-the-middle-of-the-stadium type of show. Instead, she is literally looking to blow the roof off of the stadium.
Or…at least blow a hole in the stadium roof and perform on top of said stadium. No seriously. From Page Six:
“They’re writing up multiple plans about how to safely get her on the roof, including potentially [cutting] a hole in the ceiling of the dome,” a source with knowledge of the plan told Page Six.
Naturally, pulling off said stunt would be a pretty insane feat of engineering, not to mention absolutely crazy in terms of Lady Gaga’s physical safety. You know, with NRG Stadium sitting some 260 feet in the air.
Or to put it another way, she’d be going from the ground floor to the tippy-top of a 24-story building.
We’re guessing this crazy plan doesn’t go off as she’d like, if only because the nerds who come up with insurance policies and the like will put an end to the idea. Or at least the live idea.
There does appear to be a slight chance that Gaga would find a way to tape a performance atop the roof for the NFL to use in the build-up to the Super Bowl itself.
According to the Page Six:
Meanwhile, we’re told that perturbed pen pushers are working just as hard on the project. “Trying to figure out insurance for it is crazy,” said the worried insider.
A source close to the project says Gaga is hoping to do the stunt live during her halftime show performance, but other insiders worry that — if they can pull it off at all — the safer option might be doing the stunt as part of a pretaped commercial in the leadup to the game, “depending on what they actually figure out is doable.”
No matter if it goes off or not, at least Lady Gaga is thinking outside the box—or should we say stadium—when it comes to her Super Bowl LI performance. Let’s just hope it can live up to the hype and be more about great singing and less about some crazy antics for a change.
If it is anything like the national anthem that she knocked out of the park at Super Bowl L last season, then we are all in for a treat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv2f5r5O0-c
It would be a welcome sight to many who have taken to tuning out the halftime entertainment over the past few years.
[Larry Brown Sports, Page Six]
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