Lady Gaga on Comparisons to Madonna: ‘She’s a Nice Lady…But I Play a Lot of Instruments’

Today is a great day for pop music because Lady Gaga has simultaneously done the two most important things a pop star can ever do. 1) She’s released a very good new album (one that I may be alone in enjoying), and 2) she’s read another pop star to absolute filth. Music and mayhem! What more could I ask for?

In an interview with Beats 1 (I keep forgetting Beats 1 is a thing), Gaga was asked about being compared to Madonna, and simply wasn’t having it:

“Madonna and I are very different, I wouldn’t make that comparison at all. I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna. She’s a nice lady and she’s had a fantastic huge career. She’s the biggest pop star of all time, but I play a lot of instruments…I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer, I’m a writer. What I do is different. I’m not just rehearsing over and over again to put on a show.”

This is the part when I move the opera binoculars from my eyes and open my jaw as slowly as I possibly can. Say what you want about Joanne, but that response is pop perfection of the non-musical sort.

[Idolator]

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Azealia Banks has responded to RZA’s patronizing response to the media response to Banks’s response to Russell Crowe’s alleged actions which were in response to Banks’s alleged actions during a dinner party Crowe held over the weekend in Los Angeles, and thus far it’s the best response of the bunch.