Lady Gaga and Madonna

Good find!

Watch this. Soldiers, throwing people on the floor, half-naked dancers and soldiers, rosaries, crosses, possessed behaviour with violin music in background... does this remind you something?

The Forbes list as well. I guess that was the thing Paws Down was ranting on about when I visited their site a couple weeks ago (and I don't plan on visiting that site again).

Lady Gaga beats Madonna.

Lady Gaga Tops Forbes' List of Most Powerful Musicians

Mother Monster earns $80 million to beat out Beyonce, Taylor Swift

By DAN REILLY
June 26, 2013 6:10 PM ET
Lady Gaga

It's been a pretty quiet 2013 for Lady Gaga following her tour-ending hip surgery, but she has some good news to celebrate: Forbes has named her the most powerful musician in the world.

Mother Monster earned $80 million between June 1st of 2012 and 2013, and could've earned over $30 million more had she been able to finish her Born This Way Ball tour. Forbes also factored her massive social presence – 38 million Twitter followers and 58 million Facebook fans – into the equation. In the overall celebrity Top 100, she trailed only Oprah, who made $77 million over the same span, but still has a more dominating presence based on their ranking system.

At Forbes' Number Two is Beyoncé, whom the magazine noted grosses $2 million in every city she plays, on top of her lucrative deals with Pepsi and H&M. She's Number Four overall for celebs. Madonna and Taylor Swift are at Numbers Three and Four, respectively, with Bon Jovi spoiling an all-female Top Five. Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Coldplay and Katy Perry round out the Top 10.

Jay-Z came in at Number 32 on the celebrity list, though his massive summer tour with Justin Timberlake and his forthcoming Magna Carta Holy Grail album should help him out for next year's list. Then again, if Gaga comes back soon with her planned ARTPOP LP, maybe not.

Lady Gaga Returns To Save Pop Music ... Again

Nothing to do with Madonna but I find it interesting how they say pop music is boring without Gaga because nobody is doing anything controversial or edgy.

I guess the Madonsters will have to live with the fact that Lamedonna is being replaced and/or has become boring (like flea has mentioned that Lamedonna's career has become a bore. :laugh: ).

Some quotes of interest:

[*]"In short, she went silent, and whether you like her or not, you've got to admit that the entire music biz — and pop music in particular — has been pretty boring because of that."
[*]"But the way I see it, we need her back in our lives ... in less than 150 days, pop has become a rather staid, slightly misogynistic thing,"
[*]"Can she regain her crown? Who knows? But it's certainly going to be fun watching her try. If you thought Beyonce had 'em bowing down, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. At long last, the Queen is back."

It's okay to post those photos. I don't usually mind and I just place a NSFW warning before it.

As for the photos themselves, you do have a point. Her fans only pick on Gaga because she's constantly referred to as the Queen of Pop (and Madonna is not longer recognized as such).

One more thing: Madonna DID NOT create crotch-grabbing.

Well, when a new artist is constantly named the "Queen of Pop" and their irrelevant favorite artist is being ignored and hated by everyone, it makes sense why they'd be intimidated.

Madonna has not been popular in a really long time. That's one of the reasons I had to close this board for a while. Nothing interesting was happening and I got really bored.