Weird Al vs. Lady Gaga

[kuronosan]

Alejandro was a take from Ace of Base, not Madonna.

edit: And where are these people hating the fuck on artists like Rihanna, T-Pain, and all those other pop pieces of shit who redo not only music from 80s/90s but all of their songs are practically the same?

[Esvedium]

She's no better than a tranny Madonna impersonator.

Isn't that exacly what gaga is?

[Chun Liroy]

Alejandro was a take from Ace of Base, not Madonna.

edit: And where are these people hating the fuck on artists like Rihanna, T-Pain, and all those other pop pieces of shit who redo not only music from 80s/90s but all of their songs are practically the same?

Or what about Kanye west? I mean my gosh he had a whole CD with stolen songs!

[Acturus]

Or what about Kanye west? I mean my gosh he had a whole CD with stolen songs!

Puff Daddy did it first. Even Kanye West's album CONCEPT was stolen from the 90s.

[jamesfk]

Alejandro was a take from Ace of Base, not Madonna.

Which was taken from ABBA

[Dantrag]

Music is like movies. Nothing but reboots and redos...

[Headspace]

Simpsons did it.

[Rhyis.]

Alejandro was a take from Ace of Base, not Madonna.

It's a mash up of Madonna's; La Isla Bonita and Ace of Base's; Don't Turn Around.

[Dimmauk]

I just listened to the original song just now. Immediately thought of Madonna's "Express Yourself" and apparently from all the other Youtube mash ups on it, I'm like the 3 billionth person to think this. This is the second blatant ripoff of a Madonna song next to that other crap song "Alejandro". Add to the fact that she also stole Madonna's whole stage show and persona and I dunno how anyone gives her any as an artist. She's no better than a tranny Madonna impersonator.

The gays love her, and since Madonna is old and barely tours, someone had to step in. LOL

I think everyone but Gaga thinks she plagiarized.

Lady Gaga's Ears Are Broken
Posted Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:19am PDT by Caryn Ganz in Amplifier

Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sounds like Madonna's "Express Yourself." The Amp hears it. Fans hear it. Evidently Madonna hears it. But Lady Gaga... not so much.

"I am not stupid enough to put out a record and be that moronic," Gaga told the NME (via the Prophet Blog) at the top of a rant that began with denial then quickly transformed into rage, indignation, devastation, and religious pandering. It's her very own version of the Five Stages of Grief! We've helpfully diagrammed the conversation below:

Denial:
"No. Listen to me. Why the [expletive]...? I'm a songwriter. I've written loads of music. Why would I try to put out a song and think I'm getting one over on everybody? That's retarded."
[We agree! Tell us more about this, Lady Gaga. Also, we know there was no room for "retarded" among "gay, straight, bi, lesbian, transgender, black, white, beige, Chola, and Orient" on "Born This Way," but it's not nice to use that term as a pejorative, either.]

Rage:
"What a completely ridiculous thing to even question me about. I will look you in your eyes and tell you that I am not dumb enough or moronic enough to think that you are dumb enough or moronic enough not to see that I would have stolen a melody. If you put the songs next to each other, side by side, 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 [expletive] artist in 25 years to think of putting it on Top 40 radio, it doesn't mean I'm a plagiarist, it means that I'm [expletive] smart."
[Actually, it's not just the chord progression, it's the melody of the chorus. Here, this video that puts the songs next to each other, side by side, will help explain their striking similarities to you. Give this mashup a whirl, too.]

Indignation:
"Nobody in this room at any point looked around and said, 'Oh my God, it's 'Express Yourself.' Not once. Listen. I swear to you. ... It's so funny to hear you say, 'It must have been a homage,' I'm like, NO. When I homage, I [expletive] homage with a big sign saying I've done it. Why would I not do that now?"
[Ooh, juicy stuff! So nobody on your team had the guts to mention this striking similarity to you? Because it's impossible that nobody in your organization heard it, but everyone else on Earth did. Also, tiny nit-picky thing, but we don't think homage is a verb.]

Devastation:
"I just don't want my fans... I don't know. This is exhausting. I just don't wanna perpetuate that [expletive]. I'm sure you want to address it but it's just so ridiculous. I was just [expletive] shell-shocked by it."
[That's fair. And frankly, we admire you for answering questions about it. Most stars would have said "no comment" or had their publicists rush to the rescue. Have we mentioned we love "Telephone"? One of our favorite songs ever!]

Religious Pandering:
[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 at it... there's no way for something that pure to be wrong."
[And... you just lost us.]

Between these comments and the unpleasantly schizo "Judas," we're starting to get concerned about Gaga's hearing. But you know what really doesn't help? A few quotes from the new GagaVision video released today, in which the singer explains her writing process as 15-minute purges of creativity. "And then I spend days, weeks, months, years, fine-tuning," she adds.

[Milkster]

Music is like movies. Nothing but reboots and redos...

This. There is nothing new under the sun. I hate all the people who try to seem indie and cool by hating on mainstream artist. We get it you're a wannabe hipster. If you hate someone's music so much, it's very easy to avoid it.

[Qalbert]

hating it for being mainstream is bullshit. hating it because it actually sucks is perfectly legitimate.

[Julian]

lol @ anyone who really thinks her 'manager' wasn't a .

Agreed with this.

I don't like Gaga, don't really mind her music, I'll admit some of it is annoyingly catchy, but eh.

Also, I only like/know 2 Madonna songs, rest of the stuff I tried listening was meh, but Madonna is definitely a better musician. (As if anyone here was debating that in the first place)

(I'm a bad gay, at least I like ABBA? >_>)

[LinktheDeme]

Hey now guys his manager just wanted a recording of the song for his own personal use.

[Rhyis.]

(I'm a bad gay, at least I like ABBA? >_>)

Liking ABBA is super gay, so it makes up for it.

[Plow]

There is nothing new under the sun.

And that's just 1 guy...

First 2 are from the same album, hell I could post pretty much that whole thing as example, really.





I've never "liked something because it was indie." I'm also totally with you on the whole "it's silly to hate things because they're mainstream" point. But if you don't give everything a chance, you're seriously missing out. There's no way what Gaga does can compare to shit like the pure musicians that are just so good they "almost" become popular like tricky, or a pure poet that uses music as a platform like Sage. Hell, Gaga doesn't even begin to stand up to Madonna comparisons. Or even Christina Aguilera or Beyonce.

[Chun Liroy]

hating it for being mainstream is bullshit. hating it because it actually sucks is perfectly legitimate.

What if you hate it for being mainstream, pretty bad, but mostly because everyone praises it as gospel?

[kuronosan]

I don't hear the "La Isla Bonita" in Alejandro.

[Drex]

attention-grab successful
gotta give her credit; she's a great troll

[Katlan]

holy shit, it was put up yesterday and nearly has 1mil views

[Obev]

And where are these people hating the fuck on artists like Rihanna, T-Pain, and all those other pop pieces of shit who redo not only music from 80s/90s but all of their songs are practically the same?

Hi.