Lady Gaga’s Existence Is Political. So Is Her Work—Including Her Super Bowl Halftime Show http://www.themarysue.com/lady-gaga-halftime-show-politics/
Lady Gaga’s halftime show was also rife with progressive messages, some subtle, and some blatant. She began with a message that I’d characterize as subtle, by singing the opening lines of Jewish refugee Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” a song which came into the public eye in America during Hitler’s rise and got positioned as a peace anthem of sorts. In 1940, Woody Guthrie criticized that interpretation of the song and wrote his own response to it, titled “This Land Is Your Land.” Last night, Lady Gaga melodically transitioned from singing the opening lines from “God Bless America” into then singing some lines from “This Land Is Your Land.”
