ABC/Fred Lee(NEW YORK) — Lady Gaga appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday to promote her new album Joanne, out now. She also talked about her plans for the Super Bowl halftime show she’ll be performing in February, saying she’s most excited for her family to experience it.
Saying she’s “absolutely elated” to be performing at the Super Bowl, Gaga added that she wants the show to include some songs from Joanne. The album was inspired by her late aunt, who died at age 19 from lupus.
“I was thinking…about how wonderful it’s going to be….at the Super Bowl with my grandmother, who was Joanne’s mother,” Gaga told Michael Strahan. “She’s blind but she’ll be able to hear…from the stands. And I think it’ll be a proud moment for our family, and that means more to me than anything.”
Gaga’s been doing some intimate gigs in tiny venues in the lead up to the album release, and she spoke about the one she did in her hometown of New York City on Thursday night. The club where she played, the Bitter End, has a special significance for her.
“[It] was actually the first place I ever performed at in New York, when I was 15 years old,” Gaga recalled. She laughed, “And yet I didn’t even realize it until the show was over ’cause I was just so focused on doing a great show for the fans!”
The singer didn’t specifically comment on the election, but she did express her admiration for Michelle Obama.
“She is, I think, the greatest woman in our country right now,” Gaga said of the first lady. “Her rhetoric, the way she speaks to the world, it’s just been amazing to watch her candor and her love shine through on the TV every day, it makes us all feel safe, I think.”
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