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Which Lady Gaga Will We Get at the Super Bowl?

And will she make a statement about Donald Trump?
Source: Charles Platiau

The Super Bowl halftime show might be the ultimate modern pop-music event: a swirl of commerce, image, politics, and art that represents one of the few times Americans of all cultural bubbles train their eyes on the same stage. As such, it has reliably minted some of the most memorable pop-culture moments of our time. Frivolous memes, like Katy Perry’s Left Shark or Bruce Springsteen’s crotch-slide, can come out of it. So can real provocation, as with or .

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