Posted on 02/06/2017 2:13:14 PM PST by drewh
While Gaga did indeed do the leap without a stunt double's help, this part of the show was performed in advance.
After it aired, the cameras cut to Gaga somersaulting as she soared swiftly through the air to a podium to continue the show.
For those inside the arena the show began with Gaga hanging from her guide wires, in the dark.
Footage shot from fans shows a motionless Gaga suspended from the wires. Suddenly a spotlight shines on her, and she starts her descent.
Intel which was behind the drones used in the pre-recorded feat blamed the need to plan the stunt in advance on the unpredictable weather.
'So there’s a lot of weather and environment (issues),' Natalie Cheung, general manager for Intel Drones, told USA Today.
'In February, you don’t know what it will be like during Super Bowl day. We’d hate to plan all this and, if the wind speeds are too high or if it’s raining and the roof is closed, no one can see this spectacular show. So our creative team as well as the Super Bowl creative team felt this would be best to be filmed.
'From a logistics and creative perspective, it’s a bit hard for her [Lady Gaga] to go from the roof all the way down to the floor of the stadium.'
Gaga said the idea to start the show on the roof came from her little sister Natali.
'She said, "I know let's suspend you in the air!"'.
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Crap is right. Personally I don’t care who has the ball or what disgusting thing “Lady” Gaga is doing at the moment.
I liked it. Does Lady Gaga love America? She seems to.
Once the roof closes, they can’t reopen it during the game.
I’m grateful Trump made Hillary disappear. At least for awhile.
Next thing you know, they'll tell us Santa Claus is a fake.
Besides, the whole thing was 'faked' in that it was supposed to look like she jumped with no safety/no support when the actual 'jump' required a safety harness and wires.
I don't see them calling magicians 'fake' when they saw a body in half, yet we 'know' they didn't saw anyone in half.
OMG... I was just searching the internet and found out that PETER PAN can’t really ‘fly’.
***...David Copperfield didn’t make a Space Shuttle disappear.***
WHAAAT! I’VE BEEN LIED TO-AGAIN! I feel so used!
“Gaga wins hands down”
but her outfit was ghastly! Ugh!
One small step for Man....Retake! never happened.
Now, if they had programmed the drones to deliver a beer to each person in the stands, I would have been duly impressed.
Gaga did better than Beyoncé but how many wild visuals do we need? As far as the music? Over produced but Gaga has a good voice. Lotta smoke post show
Big whoop - they did what they needed to create a theatrical effect w/o getting stupid dangerous.
Whatever....it’s entertainment. I thought she did a good job (and I had no idea what sounded like)
Compared to beyonce, she was the queen of class. I was prepared to get angry, expecting some political garbage and was pleasantly surprised. Of course, I listen to her songs when I try to exercise. lol
I didn't know if she had descended from the top of the stadium or not, but I kept thinking about what happened to wrestler Owen Hart when a similar entrance went tragically wrong.
I could not tell because of her poker face.
She’ll be back, like yellow fever or legionaires disease.
CC
I am generally a real prude but didn’t see much to object to. You have to expect a show like that to be a little more provocative than a church choir.
I despise that spirit cooking demonic creature. Skipped all the bread and circuses.
I'm afraid I can't argue with that, and I'm afraid the modern popular music/culture dress code has left me behind.
I prefer to just listen to the audio and hope for duets with Tony Bennett and piano, and pretend she's Stefani Joanne Angelina, at my local nightclub.
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