NME asked Lady Gaga about the controversy surrounding her Born This Way single which sounds suspiciously like Madonna’s Express Yourself. Long story short, Gaga doesn’t take stock in any of that. She says the idea of it is “retarded” and that it’s a ridiculous thing to ask her. She explained, “the only similarities are the chord progression. It’s the same one that’s been in disco music for the last 50 years. Just because I’m the first fucking artist in 25 years to think of putting it on Top 40 radio, it doesn’t mean I’m a plagiarist, it means I’m fucking smart. Sorry.”
Asked about her second single Judas which goes after the religious angle just like Madonna, Gaga goes on and on about how it’s not an homage and “(starts crying) I feel like honestly that God sent me those lyrics and that melody. When you feel a message to give to the world and people are shooting arrows through it…”
Right. Because God has nothing better to do than sit at his laptop in his underwear writing lyrics for Lady Gaga. I’m sure if God did anything it all, it was watch a VH1 special about Madonna, change a few details and send it to her. Then he went off to do more important stuff like search the internet for porn.
