Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl — How She Beat Out Taylor & Britney

Lady Gaga will be doing the coveted Halftime Show at the 2017 Super Bowl — even after she wrapped up 2016 with a new single that became one of the year's biggest flops. "Perfect Illusion" had a disappointing debut at #15 on the pop charts, and then sank down to #98 the very next week! That didn't stop Lady Gaga from beating out Taylor Swift and Britney Spears, though, and The National ENQUIRER knows why!

Insiders told The ENQUIRER that Britney blew her Super Bowl bid by being too desperate. “It’s embarrassing,” said one insider. “Britney wants to make a comeback so badly, but she’s not in demand like the Adeles and the Beyoncés of the world.”

Britney also had to win over the NFL after a cringe-inducing and lip-synched performance at the recent MTV Video Music Awards — which, according to mocking fans, looked “like a 3-year-old’s show for her grandparents!”

Meanwhile, The ENQUIRER's own Rob Shuter explained why Taylor Swift lost out to Gaga. The star was hoping to recover from her disastrous year of bad PR and embarrassing romances with a Super Bowl gig. There were rumors saying that Taylor was set for the gig, but Rob knew why it would never happen!