[retromaury]

http://nytimes.com/2016/09/10/arts/m....co/HBG4AbGZij


"Back in the pop arena after her detour into show tunes and pop standards, Lady Gaga unleashes her great big voice on a perennial pop subject: post-breakup fury and disillusionment. “Mistaken for love/It wasn’t love, it was a perfect illusion,” she belts, angry and tremulous. Lady Gaga and three producers — Mark Ronson, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and BloodPop — go for a 1980s-1960s dance-rock hybrid, with a Motown beat underpinning both electronics and guitars and an old-school Top 40 key change into the last verse. But the influence Lady Gaga still can’t escape is Madonna; the climax of the chorus, the words “perfect illusion,” use the same melodic line as “keeping my baby” in Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach.”

[TinkerbellClap]

It literally sounds nothing like it What a surprise seeing NYTimes hating on Gaga Stay perched retromaury though

[HAPPI•LIL•PILL]

The reach . Bye!

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[TeemoR]

Madonna is the queen of pop of course Gaga is inspired

[Blue Jeans]

As if other modern pop stars aren't influenced by Madonna who basically started the whole pop girl concept

[HASHTAGPOW]

who can tho?? every popstar is inspired by the queen

[Rusty]

Really?

Let's all stream it to find out if that's the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB94lvJbETE

[Catch22]

there's something in this tbh.

[Cake]

Yes Madonna is influential but Perfect Illusion couldn't be further from one of her songs.

[Outlaws]

LOL, that's thanks to these a*****, the ones who keep trying to make them look/sound alike.

[LilKim]

The two comparisons sound literally nothing alike.

[HonourableVomit]

Nice try.

[Burqa]

uhh just like everyone else?

[Kamren]

NYT knows what's up

[Elliot]

They don't sound anything alike. I love PDP and once again like the EY/BTW I'm having a hard time

[One Nation]

[Communion]

I'm tired of old white male journalists making the dumbest observations on pop music. Retire already.

[G.U.Y]

Sure Jan

[StephenNYMonster]

A lie to the 100th power.

[Neyde]

They really sound slightly similar, it's a fact. Y'all need to listen harder. And not people saying BTW didn't sound Express Yourself either.

Either way, Perfect Illusion still slays. #STOPTHEDRAMASTARTTHEMUSIC