“It was interesting to create something really heartfelt that keeps the purity and beauty of the original version but does it in a new way,” the pop star said
Lady Gaga revisited a childhood classic for a new Super Bowl commercial. The pop star offered her own rendition of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” the theme song from PBS family series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, in an ad for Redfin and Rocket.
In a behind-the-scenes clip, Gaga shared why she wanted to reimagine the heartfelt song, originally performed by host Fred Rogers. “I just think about my earliest memories as a kid watching Mister Rogers, and I think about how much he meant to people, especially kids at home,” she said while working on the song at Shangri-La Studios. “So I feel like this just needs to be very heartfelt and kind and warm.”
“Mr. Rogers was so clearly someone that stood for something, and it is powerful to think of what he would say right now, and it’s kind of a special song to revisit at this time,” Gaga added. “It was interesting to create something really heartfelt that keeps the purity and beauty of the original version but does it in a new way.”
Lady Gaga’s most recent album, Mayhem, arrived last year. The LP is up for seven Grammys, including Album of the Year. “It was months and months and months of rediscovering everything that I’d lost,” the singer told Rolling Stone of the album. “And I honestly think that’s why it’s called Mayhem. Because what it took to get it back was crazy.”
In December, Lady Gaga released Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live: One Night Only, a filmed version of her one-night performance of her 2024 album Harlequin in its entirety. The wide release for the concert film — which was recorded at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles — comes after Gaga debuted it during an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Dec. 18. Harlequin is in the running for the Best Traditional Pop Album at the Grammys.
