It made me realize she's musically more worth my personal enjoyment than her peers. She may lack the business sense that Madonna has possessed her entire career, but that's not what I look for in an artist.
Her transformation was too fast and too drastic for me. It started with the Alejandro video. She just got waaaay to serious and the video creeped me out. During the born this way era I just felt that she wasn't anything that I liked about her when she started.