The last time Lady Gaga was in town, she apparently had more business to conduct besides filling Climate Pledge Arena three times over.<\/p>\n
Last August, the pop superstar and Oscar winner brought her wildly inventive “Mayhem Ball Tour” to Seattle<\/a> for three shows over a four-night span. With an off day in between turning the local arena into a haunted opera house, Lady Gaga ran down to a Burien recording studio to film a Pok\u00e9mon commercial that aired during the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n \u201cWe about fell off the couch,\u201d said Joe Reineke, who owns the Temple of the Trees<\/a> studio with his wife, Karyn Reineke. \u201cWe were like, \u2018Holy (expletive), there she is! Oh my God, look!\u2019 And then my phone absolutely blew up for the next three hours.\u201d<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, seeing the ad run during the Super Bowl was more of a shocker than the heavily favored Seahawks winning the Vince Lombardi Trophy for the second time in franchise history. According to the Reinekes, everything about the making of the star-studded commercial celebrating Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s 30th anniversary was \u201ccryptic\u201d and hush-hush, requiring the studio owners to sign a nondisclosure agreement before they learned who exactly would be dropping by their secluded studio.<\/p>\n \u201cWe 100% did not have a clue it was coming,\u201d Joe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEverything was so tight-lipped,\u201d Karyn added. \u201cIt was just very mysterious. But then when we were watching the Super Bowl and it came on, we were like \u2018OMG, it’s happening!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The longtime studio operators and local musicians in the band Society of the Silver Cross<\/a> only found out it was Lady Gaga the day before an 80-person crew \u2014 many flown in from Japan \u2014 descended upon their Burien property, setting up from 6 a.m. to around 8:30 p.m. to film Gaga\u2019s relatively brief appearance in the spot. In the commercial, the singer is one of a handful of celebs, including Trevor Noah, Blackpink\u2019s Jisoo and Formula One driver Charles Leclerc, detailing their favorite cartoon Pok\u00e9mon characters. Gaga was also a part of the Super Bowl halftime show, performing alongside headliner Bad Bunny<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had signed the NDA and they said it was going to be Lady Gaga and we kind of gasped \u2014 \u2018Oh hell yeah, this is going to be cool,\u2019\u201d Joe said.<\/p>\n The woodsy, gothic studio was a perfect aesthetic match for Lady Gaga \u2014 particularly amid her spooky “Mayhem Ball Tour.” Dressed in all black with jet-black hair, Gaga is shown in Temple of the Trees\u2019 wood-lined, candlelit studio singing with her animated duet partner and Pok\u00e9mon pick, Jigglypuff.<\/p>\n \u201cIt sounds amazing and it’s really inspiring to be there,\u201d Joe said of the room. \u201cAnd matter of fact, Lady Gaga was like, \u2018Ooh, I love the gothy vibes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n