It was a jaw-dropping start to the Super Bowl halftime show: There was Lady Gaga, crooning God Bless America and Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land on the roof of Houston's NRG Stadium, framed by a fleet of illuminated drones swirling in the sky behind her.
Then Gaga stepped to the edge of the roof, flung her arms open and leapt into the open air above the field.
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The internet promptly went bonkers: Twitter was flooded with all-caps expletives and awe. Headlines gushed over the stunt. She literally just jumped off the roof, said basically everybody.
Except she didn't seriously jump from the roof - at least, not live at the Super Bowl (as some quickly pointed out, it seemed a bit suspicious that the camera cut away abruptly as soon as she fell out of view). The intro to Gaga's performance was actually taped several days in advance, officials with Intel Drones confirmed.