Is Lady Gaga
Original or Is she a cheap version of Madonna?
This
week I am going take a break from social issues and politics
and focus on music. I am a fan of both Madonna and Lady
Gaga and I see many similarities between them. I am of
the opinion that Lady Gaga is a younger version of
Madonna.
I believed the
reason that I like Lady Gaga so much is because I love
Madonna. I believe Lady Gaga has copied Madonna and just
adds her twist to the songs. I know most young female
pop stars have Madonna has a music role model. Rhianana
has said she wants to be the Black Madonna, Pink,
Britney Spears, Mya, Christina A, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Shakira
have all been influenced by Madonna and even Beyonce has said
that Madonna is a big influence on her but none of them have
outright copied her expect for Gaga. Every time I listen
to a Gaga song either the beat or the videos remain me
of a Madonna song. Her publicity campaign and her costumes
are similar to Madonna's expect that Gaga adds some
weirdness and distorts herself in her videos .
Lady
Gaga also copies Ace of Base Queen and many other
artists but it is Madonna's songs and videos who gets the
brunt of the copying from Lady Gaga. Her video Alejandro
while it has an Ace of Base song beat remains me of
Madonna's Like a Prayer and Express your self and La
Isla Bonita while Born this way has the same beat cords
like Express Yourself. Alejandro has Lady Gaga doing some
of the same Madonna moves and wearing costumes like Madonna
for example the cone bras and a black pants suit that
is similar to what Madonna wore in Express Yourself and in
Vogue but with a twist but you can see the how so similar
the two are. Everything Lady Gaga is doing and trying to
do it. Madonna has done and is still doing it for over
30 years now. Lady Gaga is around my age , so she like me
and the majority of the other pop stars grew up with
Madonna songs.
So
it is understandable that she would be influence by the
Queen of Pop and I can understand why she would even
outright copy her. Madonna has been around since like
1979 when she was drummer and singer for the punk rock group the
Breakfast Club and received official fame in 1982 and in
1983 with her club hits Everybody , Burning Up and Holiday (
which became her 1st international hit) and since
then she has numerous number 1 hits and has influenced a
whole generation of female pop artists who were born in
between the late 70s and 80s and raised in the 90s and came
of age in the 00s, similar to Michael Jackson ( the
King of Pop) who influenced Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown Usher
and many more male pop artists. So is Lady Gaga doing
anything new?; no I do not think she is. Many of her fans
think she is fresh and new but basically she is doing what
Madonna did 25 years ago. Lady Gaga in my opinion is
watered down twisted cheap version of Madonna.
Many
who are fans of both have seen the copying. The music
critics themselves have said so. There is what some music
critics have said about one of Lady Gaga's songs Born this
way “ Pop justice
website
pointed out the influence of Madonna songs like "Deeper
and Deeper"
(1992) and "Vogue"(1990).Caryn
Ganz, while writing for Yahoo!
Music,
criticized "Born This Way", stating that the song was
"overworked, overwrought, noisy, cheesy, and very, very
derivative." She specifically noted the similarities to songs
like three of Madonna's songs: "Express Yourself", "Ray
of Light"
(1998), and "Vogue".Megan Friedman from Time
and
Marissa Moss from The
Huffington Post summarized
their reaction as "mixed", due to the similarities they
found with "Express Yourself ,Neil McCormick of the Daily
Telegraph
noted
that the imitative nature of the song would affect perceptions of
Gaga's artistry, since "Born This Way" was "[basically]
a reworking of Madonna's 'Express Yourself' with a touch of 'Vogue ,
which is a bit too much Madonna for someone who is trying to
establish her own identity as the, er, new Madonna “
And what does the Queen of Pop have to say about Lady
Gaga? In an interview sometime in 2012 with an ABC'
co host Madonna said Lady Gaga was reductive!
I don't
necessarily believe that she is reductive.
I believe Lady
Gaga is trying to be the new Madonna and maybe trying to
replace her. But in this fan's eyes Madonna is still kicking
, last spring her album MDNA was number 1 for a few weeks
in the US and probably stayed number 1 longer overseas and
she filled up the stadium at the Superbowl last year and had
raving reviews, so Lady Gaga needs to stop trying and stop
outright copying her. The other female pop stars while Madonna
may be a heavily influence on them, they don't plagiarize.
People are noticing, the critics, fans of both and fans of
Madonna and apparently Madonna herself! As stated I have come to
conclusion of that I love Lady Gaga music because of how much
I love Madonna's music. In my opinion Lady Gaga is really a
Madonna wannabe but I digress
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