Well, I'll post this one (which is why I created the thread).
"The Elephant in the Room
Rumor has it that one of the reasons why ARTPOP has been delayed for (what will soon be) a year, is that Lady Gaga’s management is worried she will not be able to cope with questions about Born This Way and Madonna - they want people to forget it ever happened.
People close to the singer said that “Lady Gaga gets very frustrated with comparisons with Madonna.” They added that Lady Gaga is being coached on how to dodge questions about Madonna and not look bothered or annoyed.
In fact, reporters who managed to interview the singer before her fateful Born This Way Ball tour got cancelled, recently revealed that they were politely rudely informed not to ask Lady Gaga any question related to Madonna.
According to a TV producer from Globo network in Brazil, Alvaro Junior (a reporter from TV show Fantastico) was asked not to ask anything regarding the comments Madonna made on the Born This Way/Express Yourself comparisons, otherwise his interview with Gaga would be “immediately over.”
In case you have been under a rock,
the biggest hit Lady Gaga had on the news in 2012 was a comment made by Madonna: “it feels reductive” said the singer when asked about the comparisons between their songs. One thing is fore sure:
Lady Gaga is not the kind of woman who avoids free publicity - she wore a meat dress, for Christ’s sake! Gaga goes out of her way to get publicity by using other people’s names: she once said Madonna e-mailed her, approving of Born This Way - which was later denied by Madonna’s publicist. Lady Gaga also said
Michael Jackson invited her to open his shows in London before he died. This, also, has never been confirmed by Michael Jackson’s people. The funny thing is: Michael Jackson died less than three weeks before his first concert date - if Gaga had been invited to open for his shows, logic says that it would have been announced by then, three weeks before opening night. But it never was.
Considering how desperate for (any kind of) publicity Lady Gaga is, one would think she would be okay with all the attention she got from Madonna’s remarks. But no, Lady Gaga had her publicists veto any questions about Madonna and her “reductive” comment. Sounds like Gaga really is not comfortable with the subject.
The interesting thing is that the same Brazilian TV show broadcast an interview with Madonna a few weeks before their interview with Lady Gaga. However, according to the producers of Fantastico, Madonna did not veto or censor reporter Zeca Camargo. In fact, they say that the only requests made by Madonna referred to her work: she would only be interviewed by a reporter who had seen the MDNA show. And that’s what Camargo did the night before the interview was granted.
That explains why nobody asked Lady Gaga about Madonna in the interviews she gave in 2012: she blackmailed reporters: no questions about Madonna, or the interview is over.
Madonna, on the other hand, couldn’t care less. That’s why everybody asked her about Lady Gaga in 2012: Madonna, a true believer of freedom of the press, did not direct reporters on what they could or could not ask her.Here are the two interviews Fantastico aired in a little more than a month apart from each other:
You will see that Madonna was, indeed, asked about Gaga (just like she was on the Graham Norton show and so many others). You will see
how secure and comfortable Madonna is, how she always knows what to say, whereas Lady Gaga, well, the most talked-about topic related to her in 2012 is not even mentioned - ever thought why that was?
In fact, if you know any Portuguese, you will see reporter Alvaro Junior narrating h
ow difficult it was to interview Gaga, he mentions how he had to “overcome a mountain of demands and a wall of assistants.” The worst part, on his second question (“the difference between the ‘Born This Way Ball’ tour and her own previous tour”), her assistant interrupts from behind the camera and says this “question had not been allowed” either.
Sources close to the singer say that this behaviour has not changed: Lady Gaga still is not ready to face comparisons with Madonna. Despite music critics worldwide unanimously describing Born This Way as a copy of Madonna’s Express Yourself, Lady Gaga is said to be denying it to this day, forcing her friends and assistants to “tell her daily that she is a musical genius” and that “‘Born This Way’ is more relevant than Express Yourself ever was.”
They hope that the longer it takes for ARTPOP to come out, the more distant the memory of the Born This Way/Express Yourself issue will be. And maybe, by the time the singer is promoting the new material, no one will be interested in talking about Madonna, or Lady Gaga’s plagiarism. And if they do, they expect the singer to be emotionally prepared to talk about it after all these months of coaching."
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The first things you have to do is prove your sources. For every thing that's posted here about Madonna copying there's always a link and a source. Where is this mental Madonna fan getting his information from? For all I know, it could all be made up.
Now, I'm not a Gaga fan, but there are some things in their post I'd like to address.
1- If they think Gaga only made the news in 2012 because of Madonna mentioning her, they are wrong. Madonna has not been relevant or popular enough to draw attention to herself, or others, in
over a gazillion years over 20 years. Sure Madonna still gets articles published about her, but I always hear about how the media coverage she receives is not as extensive as it was at the peak of her career.
2- So what if Gaga does publicity stunts to gain attention? Isn't that what Madonna has always done throughout her career? Hypocrites.
3- Funny how they attack Michael Jackson one day and respect him the next.
4- If Madonna was a "true believer of freedom of the press", then why does she cover up reports of her plagiarism? Why has the "Vogue" plagiarism case not gained more attention than it should have? What about the Stardust lawsuit? Public Enemy? Fairuz? Guy Bordain? I've looked at so many news articles and none of them are mentioned. The fact that there are barely any reports about her past plagiarisms is suspicious.
Although today, there seems to be more freedom (though not as much) about her rip-offs. Such as the "L-U-V Banana" song.
5- I have never read anything about Gaga forcing people to tell her that kind of stuff? More made up information? Plus, Liz Rosenlame has made several claims about things that reporters can and can't ask Madonna.
6- Madonna has also avoided questions. The "Queen of Pop", who says she is not afraid to answer anything, avoided a question about abortion (and other se.x-related questions) even though it's a fact she's had multiple.
7- Yeah. It must be really easy to interview Madonna (there's another interview but I couldn't find that one).
Being a whiny diva? Check. Stupid and fake British accent? Check. Complaining about not being able to think... Well, Madonna doesn't have the capacity to think or come up with her own ideas...
) and asked to stop writting lies on youtube otherwise s/he'll be killed. 
