What Lady Gaga wouldn’t do for a $1 million: sing at the Republican National Convention.
While the “Pokerface” singer never seems to shy away from anything— even donning a dress made entirely of raw meat — she draws the line at singing at the RNC. She reportedly turned down $1 million amount to perform during the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida, last September — although $1 million is chump change to a person who rakes in $52 million in just one year.
Lady Gaga’s RNC rejection came to light in the midst of a lawsuit by the Republican nonprofit American Action Network who is suing Cater America, the event production company in charge of booking all of the RNC’s entertainment.
And Gaga wasn’t the only only entertainer not gaga about performing during the RNC — Dolly Parton and the rapper Pitbull, among other stars, also declined the invitation.
But the convention made the largest offer to Gaga.
According to emails sent from AAN’s director of development, Pete Meachum, they tried to lure Gaga by making the case it was an event “honoring women who run for public office” and “that $150,000 will go towards a domestic violence shelter.”
But this was still not enough to convince the star.
It did not seem to take as much convincing, however, for Lady Gaga to perform during President Obama’s inauguration festivities.
While it’s not public knowledge how much the Democratic National Committee paid Lady Gaga, she did agree to sing along with Tony Bennett during a ball celebrating Obama’s inauguration in January.
The “Born this Way” singer was also one of many celebrities to congratulate Obama on supporting gay marriage during his inauguration speech.
Reading Gaga’s “Pokerface” isn’t so hard after all: she didn’t include herself in Romney’s binder full of women.
UPDATE: The RNC released a statement on Wednesday clarifying that it is not affiliated with AAN.
“To be clear, the RNC neither asked, offered, thought of or ever considered the idea of Lady Gaga performing at our convention,” the statement reads. “And clearly, we didn’t offer a million dollars.”
