What ruined Gaga was not the music or the personality but her videos. They became over-convoluted messes. Start with the Alejandro video and go forward. Has the Paparazzi-Telephone trilogy ever been ended
If this was released by a popstar today it would be labeled by fomos as "boring". This whole vibe and theme is basically Love Drought in a nutshell.
There's historical bias happening whenever we look back at Madonna's songs. The same bias I believe Beyonce will benefit from in due time, so I'm okay with praising Madonna like we do.