@cultureberri@pigdonna Madonna is the most streamed woman pre-1990 by several billion. Gaga isn’t even the top of her own decade 😭 and again no one has surpassed Madonna, least of all the 2010s fad
@ntltchoney1 Well no, there are millions of other artists and thousands who reference Madonna. Only Gaga has obsessively repackaged her ideas and passed them off as her own, and taught her fans to deny Madonna’s influence. So you have forced us to bring receipts
@bodiddly90210@LaCampeona13 Exactly. That’s why Madonna fans know and embrace Madonna’s references while Gaga fans deny and deflect because hers were stolen
@cultureberri@pigdonna You say grandpa but Gaga is in her 40s and the outcast twink stans she had in 2010 are well in their 30s now. Gaga is the washed up has been when compared to her contemporaries, while Madonna is doing several billions more streams than any woman pre 1990 😭
@cultureberri@pigdonna you mean consume* music. people generally don't buy music at all these days, so the nosedive numbers gaga has been pulling since 2013 are largely thanks to an imagined equivalence of free streams adding up to a sale
@cultureberri@pigdonna madonnas sales peak came from actual purchases of her music (payola or not) while gaga's success includes fraudulent streams, free streams and discounted digital sales and she's still nowhere near madonna or even her own contemporaries 😭
@cultureberri@pigdonna thats literally the same for madonna in 2005 onwards dumbass. payola only promotes songs to radio and its the same method gaga uses to boost her fraudulent streaming numbers. unlike fad, madonna has 400M sales where people chose to BUY her music
@Bl4cksheep96@GodgaWon and no one owns the words "respect yourself" so how is the use of 2 words more similar than an entire chord progression and vocal melody?