Lady Gaga finally came up with a retaliation against Madonna in their long-standing feud, after Madonna toured the world singing 'Born This Way' in a mash-up with 'Express Yourself' and finishing the whole thing off with a couple of lines from 'She’s Not Me'.
It was a stroke of genius, really, and something only Madonna could get away with, in that cheeky way Madonna does things where you totally get the point (which, in this case, was that Gaga had plagiarised her song) but she doesn’t come off petty. So well orchestrated was
Madonna’s performance last summer that it hit Gaga with the weapon that always hurts the most: humour. And she didn’t even change the key.
In the new issue of Attitude, Gaga goes in: “I think playing into the gossip of the tabloids and, I guess the fodder of the competition, that's just not what I'm about,” she said. But wait: aren’t you talking about it now? Hmm. “She chooses to use her voice the way she chooses to use hers and I choose to use mine the way I use mine,” she continues.
Interesting, isn’t it, talking about how to use one’s voice – i.e. one’s power – in the public forum? You can’t help but think of that time when 'Born This Way' had just come out and everyone was saying how it sounded like 'Express Yourself',
and Gaga chose to use her voice by telling the press that Madonna had congratulated her on 'Born This Way' when Madonna never did such a thing. And it wasn’t until someone called Liz Rosenberg, Madonna’s publicist, and asked her about it that it was revealed Gaga was in fact not telling the truth.
Anyway, on with Gaga’s monologue: “All it meant to me was that Madonna Ciccone was singing my song on her stage and I'm 27!”
YOU ARE TWENTY-SEVEN?! EEK. “And as a punk-rocker from New York, I've basically been hoping that I would become so good that one day I would piss off Madonna!”
Well, congratulations. You got there in the end. Not so much with the getting good (or the punk-rock) but more with the cheating, lying and not apologising.
Sure, Madonna’s good at playing the game, but Madonna is Madonna, and why would you ever want to piss off a legend, who made your career possible in the first place? If Madonna hadn’t run around the world in her crazy outfits talking about sex and feminism for twenty years before Gaga took her first piano lesson, there wouldn’t be a Madonna to piss off – and there certainly wouldn’t be a Gaga to do it.
http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainm...131111-268137/
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