So apparently Madonna thinks Lady Gaga is “reductive”. She’s currently making the rounds promoting her album, M.D.N.A., as well as her film “W.E.”, and all ears pricked up when she spoke to Cynthia McFadden from GMA on the ABC about her thoughts on Lady Gaga
Here’s a quick transcript in case you can’t watch right now but try to watch it later because it’s not so much the words as the way she says them :
Cynthia: “What do you think about Lady Gaga – do you feel she’s copying you?”
Madonna: “I certainly think she references me a lot in her work, sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well done. I can’t really be annoyed by it or insulted by it, because obviously I’ve influenced her.”
C: “It doesn’t feel like a rip off?”
M: “No, because she’s she and I’m me.”
C: “Would you ever do a duet with her?”
M: “It hasn’t occurred to me, but never say never.”
C: “And when you saw Born This Way -”
M: “When I heard it on the radio, I said yes, that sounds very familiar.”
C: “And that doesn’t feel annoying?”
M: “Um.. it feels reductive.”
C: “Is that good?”
M: “Look it up.”
In a later interview with The Graham Norton Show, Madonna spoke about being impressed when she first saw Gaga performing at a small club in Manhattan a few years ago: “I thought she was really cool and she did remind me of me back in the day. I liked her rawness and there was something fresh about there and ballsy, and when she spoke to the audience, she sounded like she had a similar sense of humor to me, quite ironic, and I liked her. So I do think she is very talented.”
The first single from the new album, “Gimme All Your Luvin,” features Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.; it’s set for release later this month ahead of Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show.
Do you think Gaga is the new Madonna? Are you Team Madonna or Team Gaga?
Top Comments
A Madonna and Gaga duet would be beyond cool... Show the world that gutsy, wild and talented ladies can and DO work together. Such reminders never hurt us :)
Did Madonna and Lady Gaga not give you a clue what it was going to be about?
No, just a little perplexed that your first thought when you saw that headline was 'oh, this must be a thesis about the Madonna and Lady Gaga personalities and careers'. I don't know what more the headline could have said that made it obvious it was a post about Madonna having a go at Gaga aside from including a disclaimer that said 'by the way this isn't an analysis piece'. Which you don't get to do in a headline because, well, it's a headline.
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