NFL directors talk to Billboard about Halftime Show

[KleinGa 18,177]

They spoke about "muting" Gaga from speaking about Trump.

""We have no discussions about her or with her that have to do with the election, or the president,” Mark Quenzel, NFL senior VP of programming and production, tells Billboard. "What we say to every artist, very clearly, and they all buy in: the Super Bowl halftime is the biggest musical event of the year, and it’s also a communal event for fans, the Super Bowl itself. People get together as families, as friends. It’s a unifying day for people built around the biggest sporting event in the world."

"The performance should reflect that,” Quenzel continues. "The performance should reflect a celebration, and it should reflect what it’s intended to be, which is a great musical performance in the middle of a great game. Anything that detracts from that is not something that we should be focusing on.”

Quenzel — whose role in the halftime show is "to make sure everything runs smoothly, that the communication between the NFL and Lady Gaga goes well” — says that, for her part, Gaga has been totally agreeable to the NFL’s approach. "Lady Gaga has said any number of times to us: when it’s all said and done, she wants to remembered for her performance, not something she said or did,” he says. "We’re all citizens of the world here, and we’re all going to have opinions on things, and we’re okay with that. At the end of the day, we leave it to the good judgment of the artist. Be a person, have an opinion, just be smart about it. And by the way, they all are.”

It’s also worth remembering, Quenzel concludes, that performing at the Super Bowl is an opportunity that most artists can only dream of. "At the end of the day, most of the artists will tell you, it’s a bucket list item,” he says, "and they know it’s going to be part of the way they are remembered going forward. They’re all very cognizant of making sure that whatever legacy they have is a musical one."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/super-bowl/7677935/lady-gaga-halftime-show-politics-super-bowl?utm_source=twitter

 

[GagaIsDope 679]

Good. We all want it to be about the music.

[Bradley 55,532]

I never bought the idea that she was going to make a protest in any way in the first place. It's just not who she is anymore, she might have done it in 2012 but she's grown up and what she seeks now is to resolve matters in a peaceful way without antagonism.

[Sizzily 14,543]

That last name is to die for.  

[GagaMyBlood95 9,808]

That's good, I think it wouldn't be appropriate to go political either, I'm glad Gaga and the NFL agree!

[chromaticainmyhead 5,569]

If Gaga does any political statement during the show than only a hidden one in her song's choices and the way she performs them which can only be interpreted by the audience if they take it that way. To openly speak about Trump or any politics related topic won't be very appropriate. 

[Bloody 64,631]

She wouldn't be so stupid to provoke that way anyway.

[Alfonso 1,261]

6 hours ago, Bradley Cooper said:

I never bought the idea that she was going to make a protest in any way in the first place. It's just not who she is anymore, she might have done it in 2012 but she's grown up and what she seeks now is to resolve matters in a peaceful way without antagonism.

This!!

But there are still people that think she will do something political, even when she said a couple of times that she isn't going to do it