--- title: Super Bowl Halftime Show: Internet Loved Lady Gaga description: These are fractious times for our land, but on Sunday night, for a moment, all was well. canonical: https://time.com/4660676/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-06T01:52:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-07T15:47:48.733Z og:title: The Internet Is Bowing Down To Lady Gaga After Her Super Bowl Performance og:description: She flew. She played the keytar. The world is losing it og:url: https://time.com/4660676/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a37769f8a566ef2/6988b8d88e06013ef9469133/lady-gaga-superbown-half-time-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Bowing Down To Lady Gaga After Her Super Bowl Performance twitter:description: She flew. She played the keytar. The world is losing it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a37769f8a566ef2/6988b8d88e06013ef9469133/lady-gaga-superbown-half-time-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Bowing Down to Lady Gaga After Her Super Bowl Halftime Show by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Feb 6, 2017 1:52 AM UTC  Lady Gaga performs during the Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl 51 Halftime Show at NRG Stadium in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017 Lady Gaga performs during the Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl 51 Halftime Show at NRG Stadium in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017Al Bello—Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Feb 6, 2017 1:52 AM UTC These are divisive times in America, but on Sunday night, for a moment, all was well. Pop superstar Lady Gaga headlined the Super Bowl halftime show, and, according to those who watched it, it was magnificent. After a short and sweet introduction from Tony Bennett, Gaga appeared at the top of the stadium. She sang patriotic anthems [without getting overtly political](http://time.com/4657423/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga-politics/), and then [she flew](http://time.com/4660665/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga-flew/). She played the keytar. She sang a medley of her greatest hits, from “Poker Face” to “Telephone” to “Bad Romance” to “Born This Way.” Predictably, the world lost it. > [](https://twitter.com/chrisharnick/status/828413433997565952) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/828415338886942721) > [](https://twitter.com/SethAbramovitch/status/828413262483959808) > [](https://twitter.com/AllyBrooke/status/828416961772036096) > [](https://twitter.com/joejonas/status/828416484116422656) > [](https://twitter.com/JarridWilson/status/828416544715710464) > [](https://twitter.com/JoshMalina/status/828417782077284352) > [](https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/828411930591240192) > [](https://twitter.com/stephpaterik/status/828420261452115971) And now the memes come. > [](https://twitter.com/FIirtationship/status/828416894696775680) > [](https://twitter.com/Matt%5FIndeddi/status/828416204612235266) Super Bowl Halftime Show: Internet Loved Lady Gaga ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4660676/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4660676/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Bowing Down to Lady Gaga After Her Super Bowl Halftime Show","datePublished":"2017-02-06T01:52:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-07T15:47:48.733Z","description":"The world is losing it","url":"https://time.com/4660676/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga/","keywords":["Newsfeed","onetime","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a37769f8a566ef2/6988b8d88e06013ef9469133/lady-gaga-superbown-half-time-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a37769f8a566ef2/6988b8d88e06013ef9469133/lady-gaga-superbown-half-time-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show","caption":"Lady Gaga performs during the Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl 51 Halftime Show at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 5, 2017.","creditText":"Al Bello—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4660676/super-bowl-halftime-show-lady-gaga/","name":"The Internet Is Bowing Down to Lady Gaga After Her Super Bowl Halftime Show"}}]}] ```