Madonna On Lady Gaga's Born This Way: When I Heard It The First Time, I Said, 'That Sounds Very Familiar'
Posted on Jan 13, 2012 @ 12:00PM
Madonna opens up about the controversy that her heir apparent, Lady Gaga, borrowed liberally from her 1989 hit Express Yourself to create the 2011 chart-topping single Born This Way, and we've got all the details for you here on RadarOnline.com.
“When I heard it on the radio …I said that sounds very familiar,” Madonna tells ABC News in a 20/20 chat scheduled to air Friday. “It felt reductive.”
(The definition of "Reductive" -- Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, esp. one viewed as crude.)
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Madonna said she thinks Gaga -- also a New York-born pop star with socially-influenced songs and a huge following in the LGBT community -- “references me a lot in her work.
“And sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well done."
She added Lady Gaga mimics her in “taking something that was in the Zeitgeist, you know, 20 years ago and turning it inside out and reinterpreting it.”
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“There’s a lot of ways to look at it. I can’t really be annoyed by it …because, obviously, I’ve influenced her.”
As for Gaga, she spoke of the similarities last year saying she’s “the hugest fan personally and professionally. The good news is that I got an e-mail from her people and her, sending me their love and complete support on behalf of the single. And if the queen says it shall be, then it shall be.”
Also in the chat, Madonna, 53, opens up about her new romance with 24-year-old dancer Brahim Zabat.
An admittedly-uncomfortable Material Girl said, “I didn’t like write down on a piece of paper I’m now going to have a relationship with a younger man ... That’s just what happened. You see, that’s the romantic in me: I just met someone that I cared for and this happens to be his age.”
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She joked she’s “the easy one” in the relationship, and said that “behind the curtain, I’m just like everybody else.”
The full interview airs on 20/20 Friday at 10/9c.
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The Daily Juice
Feb 15, 2011 @ 05:45
Madonna is an icon. Gaga has become one, too. Madonna displayed grace and class by the words she used to describe the similarities of the two songs. Period.
Posted Sat, 01/14/2012 - 6:32pm
The only thing she "displayed" was her backtracking and that's because she's scared GaGa'a fans are gonna come after her punk a$$! She still using that fake British accent? LMAO!!!
Posted Sat, 01/14/2012 - 7:08pm
Madonna is a punk a$$ lying pos. She talked about GaGa like a DOG, now she's trying to act all dignified. Yes, GaGa is a copy cat but at least she CAN SING! And isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? Madonna copied EVERYTHING!!!!!
Posted Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:44am
Madonna is super jealous of GaGa. GaGa has it all and Madonna is just a HAS BEEN, chasing little boys and her youth trying to compete with her own daughter. Retire already .
Posted Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:21pm
Madonna was good. GaGa is GREAT !!!!
Posted Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:15pm
The only talent Madonna has is self-promotion. Nothing wrong with that, but let's not even try to put them in the same category.
Posted Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:23pm
I love Madonna, don't get me wrong. But ya couldn't sit in a bar and listen to her play a piano and sing a tune. She's like Brutney Spears - completely manufactured. Gaga may be a bit of a rip-off artist, but she's got real talent.
Posted Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:22pm
Madonna is the perfect definition of the word 'reductive'. She can't sing, never could. Not a huge Gaga fan but Gaga IS a musician. Madge - ya look like Fay Dunaway's twin hahaha
Posted Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:17pm
I've noticed that too, she needs to lay off the plastic surgery, her face is way too stretched
Posted Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:25am
nicizzy hit the nail on the head.
Posted Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:26pm