It's official: Mayor Bloomberg has personally extended an invitation to this year's biggest pop star to drop the crystal ball in Times Square on New Year's Eve at precisely 11.59pm on December 31...and it's Lady Gaga!
Thousands of party revelers and Little Monsters will be cheering and singing along to Auld Lang Syne, as one of the most influential people on earth today pushes a Waterford Crystal button to release the LED-lit ball.
Fun cocktail fact: the New Year's Eve Ball weighs exactly 11,875 pounds, the combined heft of 2,688 LED-equipped crystal triangles bolted onto the sphere. That's just about as much megawatt star power Lady Gaga possesses at the moment.
Bonus: if you're reading this while getting ready for your New Year's bash, why not play the vid below of the pop star singing White Christmas to get you in the mood for a snowy last night of 2011
