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- Indivisible with liberty...
- Oh, okay. The Super Bowl.
- Lady Gaga!
- (crowd cheering) - Oh, when she jumped down.
- What an entrance, huh?
This girl flies.
- I just wonder if those are drones.
- (crowd cheering) ♪ (music playing) ♪
- Oh boy, she's flying. Wow.
- I saw this, the Super Bowl.
- Watched that. It was amazing.
(applauding)
- Woo-hoo!
- (Gaga) ♪ I'm on the edge ♪
- I love Lady Gaga.
- ♪ Fold 'em, let 'em, hit me, raise it... ♪
- Go, lady, go.
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ I'll get him hot, show him what I got ♪
- I wish I was there.
- I didn't watch the Super Bowl, so this is the first I've seen of this.
(crowd cheering)
- Very athletic, wow.
Like being on a trapeze.
- ♪ My mama told me when I was young ♪
- (laughing)
She's good.
- ♪ She rolled my hair... ♪ - Boy, is she talented.
- She's hot. - ♪ In the glass of her boudoir ♪
- Great dancers.
- ♪ I'm beautiful in my way ♪
♪ 'Cause God makes no mistakes ♪
- This is the greatest halftime entertainment
in many Super Bowls I can remember.
- ♪ No matter gay, straight, or bi ♪
♪ Lesbian, transgender life ♪
♪ I'm on the right track, baby ♪
♪ I was born to survive ♪
- Damn, nice message. Thank you!
- That's a perfect song for today's time too.
- She has an awesome voice.
♪ (playing solo) ♪
- Oh, look at this. She's playing a baritone melodica.
- I've always wanted to play one of those.
- ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! ♪ - I like her song.
This is my favorite song.
- ♪ Caught in a bad romance ♪
- Look how multi-talented she is.
- ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ - Costume change.
- (Gaga) The Super Bowl is what champions are made of!
- God, the costumes, of course, are always really great.
- ♪ Gaga ooh-la-la ♪
♪ Want your bad romance ♪ - She's great.
- ♪ I want your love... ♪ - Great production.
- Choreography's spectacular.
- ♪ Rah rah ah-ah-ah! ♪
♪ Ro mah ro-mah-mah ♪
- Fireworks-- I wonder how she did these stairs in those heels.
- I think she was a big hit at the Super Bowl.
- (Gaga) Super Bowl 51! (crowd screaming)
- Drop the mic. (chuckling)
- (chuckling)
Yeah, she lit that place up.
There's just more zing to it than some of the past performances.
- The best. That was the best.
- She fits in every genre, from Tony Bennett to this performance.
- (FBE) So in today's culture, as soon as something is big,
you know what happens... it becomes a trend.
- Yeah, wait for the next one.
- (FBE) So we are now going to show you what the internet did
immediately after this happened. - Okay.
- Hit me.
- "Me jumping to conclusions." (laughing)
- I hope it's not the end conclusion there.
- I like the play on words.
- Ah! That didn't take much imagination.
- "When you run into someone you owe money to."
(laughing) Okay, cute.
- Uh-oh. (laughing) Yeah, run!
- (laughing) Yeah. Ah, that's good.
- "Lady Gaga from the top of the cage."
Whaaaa! (laughing)
- Ho!
- Whoa! (laughing)
- (laughing) Wrestling.
- Thank you, internet. Thank you, thank you.
- I don't think much of this. I don't know.
- "The new Spider-Man looks amazing." Okay.
- I prefer her over Spider-Man.
- Yeah, that's the way Spider-Man is.
Like, he... (laughing).
- I like quick, intelligent humor a lot,
and that's what I see in this stuff.
- "When it's late night and you're trying to get food
from your kitchen without making much noise."
That's a good one.
- Oh, come on, you guys!
And "to" should have been T-O-O anyway.
That's horrible!
- I do that too every night because I'm not supposed to eat
late at night, but I try to... (chuckling).
- "Lady Gaga Super Bowl."
Oh, they're showing a pigeon jumping off a wall.
(laughing)
- (laughing)
Oh, that's a funny one.
- Lady Gaga Super Bowl. Aah! The diving pigeon.
- This is so cute! I love kids.
(TV playing faintly) - Okay.
Aah!
- (snickering)
Having had children, I know they do stupid stuff.
- I hope she didn't hurt herself.
- "Lady Gaga be like Tom Cruse in Mission Impossible."
- Yeah, I like Lady Gaga better.
- That's a compliment to him.
- "The Simpsons even predicted Lady Gaga's half-time show."
(laughing) With exploding breasts. That didn't happen!
- I don't think I've ever seen that Simpson episode.
- They're exactly the same.
- It is very similar.
- "Lady Gaga wanna be Spongebob so bad."
Yeah!
- That's pretty good, pretty clever.
- "Wanna be Spongebob."
Does anybody relate to that?
- Everyone's so clever.
I wish I knew how to do stuff like that,
just play around with the internet like that.
Very cool.
I like the innuendos, I like the play on words
with a lot of them.
- People have time to do nonsense, so-- fun, I guess.
- I am really massively disappointed.
I can't imagine how bad I would expect more of the internet.
I really would.
(movie reel clicking)
- (FBE) So the memes we showed you started showing up
almost immediately after her performance and there were tons on the web
before the next day.
Were you aware that people jump on these things that fast these days?
- Yes. I am.
- The internet is so spontaneous.
I'm not surprised at all.
There were probably not hundreds but thousands.
- I'm not surprised.
I'm more surprised at the lack of creativity.
- This is the first I know about it, but the good thing about It
is that it made me laugh.
- I wasn't aware of it.
I wouldn't look for it. I don't understand that whole culture.
- I am aware of that.
If it happens now, two seconds later the world knows it.
We're not in the Pony Express era, you know? (laughing)
It's immediate.
- I love the fact that they jump on it that fast.
They're reacting that quickly and doing something funny immediately.
It's sort of like the media version, the video media version of stand-up improv.
- (FBE) So Lady Gaga is one of the most successful artists
of this generation.
What are your overall thoughts on Lady Gaga?
- I've always loved her.
She's always evolving.
- I like underlying voice. I think she's a very good singer.
- She looks peculiar but she's a great singer
and a great artist.
- She's entertaining and I loved her duets with Tony Bennett.
- For her to recognize music from the '70s, '80s-- Tony Bennett--
is really very appreciated by people of my age.
- She's got herself very well put together.
A lot of times, you see, you know, too much sexual innuendo
in the performances.
This did not have that, but it was exciting.
It was vibrant.
- I like her, but there are times when she dresses up
in, you know, things that I don't like,
but that's the way she is.
- (FBE) Finally, we hate to break it to you,
but many people didn't realize at the time
where the part where she jumped was actually pre-recorded.
- Oh, wow.
- They did a good job.
I was wondering how they'd take a chance on that.
- (FBE) Does it make you think differently of this moment
knowing that it was pre-taped? - No. Not at all.
- I couldn't care less about it.
It's showmanship and it works.
- Well, it was seamless. You didn't know.
I don't care. (laughing)
As long as it looks awesome, I don't care.
- Absolutely not.
Her introduction is one thing.
It's if she can carry it after that-- and, baby, she carried it.
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- Let us know in the comments what we should react to next.
- Thanks for watching. Bye.
- Hey, guys, Kyle, producer here at FBE.
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