Gratitude to Gaga

As for PP&M, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, etc. music (they all wrote and sang each others' songs), much was meant for the civil rights movement, including "This Land Is Your Land" for racial tolerance/inclusiveness, not patriotism per se. Myself, I didn't get it at the time. Somebody had to point it out to me. "Blowin' In The Wind", loved the song, still do, didn't get the meaning at the time.

I doubt very many people take it for a political statement anymore. Hell, Lady G. is probably too young to have even been involved in the 60s hippie, if it feels good do it, free love, "Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together and just love one another right now" stuff.

What once was old is new again

Woody Guthrie didnt sing Peter Paul and Mary songs, Nor Bob Dylan songs. He was hospitalized from 1956 until his death in 67 and had already ceased public performances in reaction to the rise of Joe McCarthy. Dylan and PPM didn't start until the next decade. You might be thinking of Arlo Guthrie, his son who played frequently with Pete Seeger who was a contemporary of Woody.
The song has been a feature of many anti-Trump rallies. Gaga couldn't have been more obvious if she had sung it in Spanish.

To get back to the original topic: I, also, thought GaGa did a fantastic half time show! And how about all those drones that lit up the sky!

I thought it started well and loved the drones, but wasn't all that impressed overall. I did like the song she performed with the piano.
I wasn't familiar with many of the songs.

Woody was on a ship off of Utah Beach on DDay, as a volunteer. A month later, his ship was sunk by a U-Boat.

OK, I was thinking that Woody was the younger of the two. I'm pretty sure those prolific "folk" singers of the '60s and '70s , as with country and rock today, recorded songs written by their contemporaries.

But, back to the topic, I was clicking in and out of the Super Bowl, didn't see the halftime show, any of the entertainment and only one commercial which I thought was lame, didn't see the halftime show.

I was tuned in before the half when the Pats seemed like nothing could go right. When I got back in it was an 8 point game for the Falcons with four minutes left. I still didn't think the Pats could pull it off. Glad I didn't miss that. We really didn't have a favorite to win, except our pastor's son used to work for the Falcons organization so he was fervently pulling for them. Just before the OT started my husband said "We ought to call Bob and ask him if he is OK...LOL.

I don't get how This Land has become an anti-Trump protest song??? Somebody explain that please.

Read the original verses, the ones Springsteen sang at Obama's inauguration. Not the sanitized version they teach in elementary school.

for the most part I do like Lady Gaga. she is talented and she can sing. I don't want to listen to her political puke. I wish she would take the high road more often and just refrain from spewing the liberal vomit. overall great job on the half time show. she can deliver!!

Here's the thing. My heart took life at face value. I don't look for hidden messages of hate and dissension in other people. If they overtly put it out there or if they have a hidden agenda in their heart, they will be taking it up with God and when they look in the mirror. When is the thirst for hate quenched? I am seriously looking into leaving the country, people promised if they didn't get their way they would and they are liars. No one wants to live with all this anger and daily. This so freaking depressing. I tried to compliment the other side and that still doesn't make the world happy. And yes, the media is making this stuff up too. I would have a lot of respect for Gaga if she actually held a press conference and said her intention was just a nice patiotic, sportsmanship program. That is what nice and sane people do in their day and with their lives. The end.

I am tired of this topic. I needed to vent. Thank you to the people who were kind. This crap is affecting my real life and I am booking a vacation somewhere out of america if I can find somewhere that doesn't hate us and I am safe right now. Hell, I hate us right now.