As this year’s Super Bowl draws ever closer, some of the commercials are beginning to be teased out. For our purposes, one of the more interesting ones is Lady Gaga covering the theme song for “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The cover will appear in a commercial by Rocket and Redfin and while we don’t have the actual commercial to share, we do have a short behind-the-scenes documentary recording of the song.
“Mister Rogers was so clearly someone that stood for something, and it’s powerful to think of what he would say right now,” says Gaga in the short documentary, adding that it’s “kind of a special song to revisit at this time.” Meanwhile, frequent collaborator Benjamin Rice says in the piece that the song is “a simple melody with really complex chords. That combination, it’s hard to nail that, and it does — it’s a perfect song, in that way.”
(If you just want to hear the song, jump ahead to 1:52 in the video.)
