Exhibit 1: The year 1998. Madonna took part on an
MTV interview/documentary where she visited the places she lived at and
visited in New York when she was a struggling dancer before she got
famous.
In this clip, Madonna visits the deli that was down the street where
she lived with her friend Rupert Everett, where she buys some snacks.
Madonna is not used to carrying cash with her, so Rupert pays, not
before Madonna makes a very spontaneous, ironic joke about her being “broke” and not being able to pay, which makes for an endearing moment in the documentary, look for yourself:
How to be Reductive: Lady Gaga does a special for
HBO called the Monster Ball, where she not only plagiarizes the
aesthetic and the tone of Madonna’s Truth or Dare documentary, but she
also goes for the jugular, not only plagiarizing the big things of
Madonna’s legacy, but she also goes for the Minutiae of Madonna’s whole life.
In this clip, we can see Lady Gaga trying to force the same candid moment in the Madonna Rising documentary, but this time to serve her herculean struggle to position herself as the be all and end all of pop culture, a FAILED struggle may I add, because the moment comes across, not authentic and candid like Madonna’s, but forced, embarrassing and like the worst lie ever told, given the fact that Lady Gaga comes from millionaire parents, and DIDN’T live around the area where that deli is located, she probably never even visited it before that moment:
Exhibit 2: The Year, 1998. Same documentary. Madonna
visits her old East Village apartment, the one she lived in as a
struggling artist. The current tenants graciously open the door and have
a lovely conversation with the former tenant of the apartment and who
now is the most famous woman in the world:
The Reductive Version of Exhibit 2: Lady Gaga does a special with Anderson Cooper, and again, she tries to steal the minutiae of Madonna’s life for her own.
Fast forward to minute 9:27(unless you want to see the ego maniacal
babblings of a quack) and you’ll see lady gaga revisiting her old
apartment, in a carbon copy of Madonna’s spontaneous documentary, with
one exception: the current tenant WOULDN’T EVEN OPEN THE DOOR FOR LADY GAGA. Lady
Gaga proceeds to make up for the failed attempt at plagiarism by
dramatically crying in front of the cameras, one of the most embarrassing
moments in television:
Coincidence? Or is Lady Gaga a woman of such immense FAILURE,
INSECURITY AND UNORIGINALITY, that she knew she could never make it as
Stefani Germanotta, and couldn’t even make it with a new persona, but
instead needed a persona totally recycled from Madonna? Is her
obsession so low that she has spent HOURS AND YEARS gobbling on every
documented Madonna moment in other to replicate it?
Quite reductive indeed.
