I'm trying so hard to be shady.

No, Madonna didn't wear any kind of things like the outfit GaGa wore for the X Factor performance, the only similarities are the hair, eyebrows and make up, but that's not something Madonna came up with, that's a style that artists in the hollywood golden age used to have, white fundation, thick black eyebrows and a very deep lipstick colour, actually Marilyn Monroe used to look like that for a lot of years so I hope you can get your conclusions!

So that doesn't mean GaGa is getting inspired by Madonna, GaGa is inspired by the old hollywood too, or did Madonna trademark the art of using Marilyn Monroe and all those glamorous bitches as influence, Madonna took the inspiration 1st but that doesn't mean GaGa was copying her with that style and the outfit was totally avant garde and different I mean....!

Um girl please stop, Avril has not had any type of influence at all in the music industry, stop reaching and making yourself look like a joke. Let's not get started on how Avril is nothing but a carbon copy of Alanis.

I don't think you understood exactly what I meant. For example, when Madonna dressed as Marilyn and made a song lyrically similar to "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" (that's "Material Girl" by the way) she was making fun of the "decade of greed", and the video (if you pay attention to the whole thing) was a rejection of that culture.

The same thing with the "Express Yourself" music video. Fritz Lang made a film about oppression, and Madonna twisted that point to promote her feminist ideals (i.e. breaking free from female oppression imagery like being chained to the bed, or licking from the bowl of milk, or crawling under the table). I also believe the oppressed working men represented gay people (even though she has sex with one in the end, which I think shows both her sexual freedom AND her relationship with the gay community).

It's the same with "Vogue" (drag balls/ Horst), her Old Hollywood style, "Justify My Love" (French art-house films of the late '70s), the Girlie Show (Dietrich), "Hollywood", "Confessions..." (Donna Summer/John Travolta) and most recently "Beautiful Killer" (Alain Delon).

Gaga, however, simply imitates. She eats the zeitgeist of another time and throws it up on a new generation.

Madonna and Gaga may take influence from some of the same people, but Madonna used (and still uses) it FAR more intelligently.