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# Fug or Fab: Lady Gaga at Super Bowl L
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-or-fab-lady-gaga-at-super-bowl-l-02-2016/
- Published: 2016-02-09T17:00:42.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-10T06:40:29.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug or Fab, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:46

This is EXACTLY how I wanted Hillary Clinton to come out in New Hampshire. Guess she's been scooped.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2016/02/gettyimages-508982064.jpg "Lady Gaga")

I know a lot of people loved this performance, but it left me cold. I piss and moan practically every year about the National Anthem, though, including all the same boring objections to the way people modify the tune -- I WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED -- so I won't repeat the regular gripes here. Just close your eyes and imagine the words you have been forced to read so many times before. (I name-checked the Whitney Houston version the other day before realizing I haven't actually listened to it in like 15 years, so I have NO IDEA anymore what she did in it; I think my subconscious just DECIDED it's good because she and her voice came to such a sad end.)

Anyhoo: I think Gaga generally has a great voice, but she sounded strained for parts of it, and not as powerful as I've heard her elsewhere. She's sounded better on *Saturday Night Live.* She also dragged out the beginning a bit too much for me. (You can't spell 'melodrama' without ME.) Interestingly,[ there is a gambling subplot](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25476861/lady-gaga-crushes-the-national-anthem-but-theres-controversy-about-length?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io): Vegas put the over/under at 2 minutes and 20 seconds, and some bookies timed it at 2:29, and some timed it at 2:09\. So your payout depends ENTIRELY on where you happened to bet. I am not sure if anyone bet on her looking like a cross between Dolly Parton and *Tootsie* (the latter reference courtesy of Twitter; I cannot take credit), but if you did, congrats. You probably got rich.

![lady gaga](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/02/GettyImages-508982924.jpg "Lady Gaga")

And yes, that's a bedazzled microphone AND ear piece, to go with her patriotic nails and jacket and eyeshadow. I know this is a LOT of red, but riddle me this: Does the lipstick seem like a cop-out? I mean, if you're going all in, don't leave one toe poking above the water line.

\[Photos: Getty\]