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Madonna's savoir faire as a marketer is unfailing: Her comment - she called Gaga's song "reductive"- has everyone talking about her again.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed LYNN CROSBIE 2012

But Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard, calls Gaga's promotional efforts "more of a landmark campaign" for the new music industry.

The Seattle Times 2011

The department, called Gaga's Workshop, has been transformed with displays of cookies, books, press-on nails and leather jackets, all housed in cartoonish sculptures by the artist Eli Sudbrack, some of which look like her head.

NYT > Home Page By ERIC WILSON 2011

On the Madison Avenue storefront, the windows take on Lady Gaga themes from the sleek, modernized metallic "gagamachine" straddled by a sleek, metallic, nude Gaga; to an outer space explosion of color and animation backed by Gaga songs; onto a view of "Gaga's Boudoir," made entirely out of hair chronicling the different hairstyles of the pop icon; and ending with a blue icy world of conical stalactites and stalagmites centered by a silver Gaga mermaid sculpture suspended in midair called "Gaga's Crystal Cave."

Forbes.com: News Anthony DeMarco 2011

So what if Gaga's latest single borrows heavily from Madonna's 1989 hit?

John Gascot: Giddy About Gaga John Gascot 2011

I fear that if I read yet another story or internet forum comment about how much Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" lacks merit and is a blatant rip-off of Madonna's "Express Yourself" my head might implode, not from anger, but boredom.

John Gascot: Giddy About Gaga John Gascot 2011

So what if Gaga's latest single borrows heavily from Madonna's 1989 hit?

John Gascot: Giddy About Gaga John Gascot 2011

Yesterday, as the video for Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was released on the internet I was transported to those days, if only for a few minutes.

John Gascot: Giddy About Gaga John Gascot 2011

I fear that if I read yet another story or internet forum comment about how much Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" lacks merit and is a blatant rip-off of Madonna's "Express Yourself" my head might implode, not from anger, but boredom.

John Gascot: Giddy About Gaga John Gascot 2011

Yesterday, as the video for Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was released on the internet I was transported to those days, if only for a few minutes.

John Gascot: Giddy About Gaga John Gascot 2011