Lady Gaga hoping to 'push the envelope' at Super Bowl
Lady Gaga will showcase her "guts and talent" when she performs at the Super Bowl Halftime Show next year (17).
The 30-year-old singer was recently confirmed as the headliner at the National Football League (NFL) final on 5 February (17), and will follow in the footsteps of stars including Beyonce, Coldplay and Bruno Mars when she takes to the stage at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas
Coming up with an inventive, exciting set for the occasion is a
daunting prospect, but Gaga said in a new interview that she is
hoping to give fans something entirely new with her performance at
the Super Bowl.
"The best way to push the envelope is with your guts and your
talent," she said during a chat with Carson Daly on 97.1 AMP Radio.
"And then you also want to push the envelope in terms of your
creativity and your music and taking the show to the next level,
but I don't know if it's the place to push the envelope in other
ways.
"In some ways, I want to lightly lick the envelope, hop inside,
close it, write my name on it, and the thing is that I really just
want to be there for football fans because that's what I'm hired to
do."
Prior to her Super Bowl performance, Gaga will be delighting fans
by taking to dive bars in an intimate tour of select cities around
America. The singer is no stranger to performing in such venues,
and is excited about getting up close and personal once again with
her fans now she's such a huge star.
"When you play in a big arena - which is wonderful - or in a
stadium, I've done that before a lot too and it's just an
incredible and amazing rush, it feels good for you as a performer,
maybe, but for the audience, they're a lot farther away from you,"
she said. "Dive bars, by the way that I grew up in New York when I
was 19 on the Lower East Side, everybody had a production. It's
intimate, but you also have to think of things that are simple on
your own and it requires using your mind on a small stage. I want
people to show up and see something very big in a very small
place."