Skip to main content
Facebook icon Twitter icon Instagram icon YouTube icon

Lady Gaga Reimagines Mister Rogers’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’

Meredith Francis
Mister Rogers against a blue backdrop holding up the Daniel Tiger puppet
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Photo: WQED, Small World Enterprises, Family Communications

There’s a new friend in Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, and it’s none other than pop icon and actress Lady Gaga. 

In a YouTube video that shows behind-the-scenes of the song’s reimagining, Lady Gaga talks about the importance of Mister Rogers to her own childhood and offers a preview of her version of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” It’s the beloved song written by Mister Rogers that he sang at the beginning of his long-running children’s program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The full song will air during Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8 as the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots.

“I feel like this just needs to be very heartfelt and kind and warm,” she says in the video, below. “Mister Rogers was so clearly someone that stood for something and it is powerful to think of what he would say right now.”