Lady Gaga, copycat or copied? These pop stars who steal their ideas<

Walking around in a meat dress, making her dancers wear high heels, or, more recently, doing her hair like Minnie Mouse... While we think that Lady Gaga has committed all the eccentricities possible, she always finds something new to amaze her fans. For lack of being able to be so creative, certain stars do not hesitate to draw inspiration (copy?) from the particular universe of the clips of Poker Face, Paparazzi and other Bad Romance. But Lady Gaga, whether she admits it or not, also stole a few things from her idols... In pop music, influences intersect and sometimes lead to disputes. Let's give Gaga back what's Gaga's...and others what's theirs!

Christina Aguilera: a Bionic made in Bad Romance

Unveiled in 2010, Christina Aguilera's album Bionic is unlike anything she's done before... But watching the clip for the first single, Not myself tonight, released in April 2010, we have it all. likewise a lingering feeling of deja vu! And for good reason, Xtina makes many borrowings from previous Lady Gaga clips. Those Carrera glasses paired with platinum blonde hair? Straight out of the Bad Romance clip, unveiled five months earlier! The interpreter of Dirty goes so far as to imitate this way (yet very characteristic) that Lady Gaga has to surround her eye with the fingers of her right hand. A hardly profitable strategy, since Bionic is an oven, which she does not even try to defend on tour.

Katy Perry: She's Not Born This Way

In March 2011, Katy Perry unveiled E.T., the fourth clip from the album Teenage Dream... and made a radical change of style! Transformed into an alien, the wife of Russell Brand seems to have been completely revamped in the style of the Born this way clip, unveiled only a month earlier by Lady Gaga. Same intergalactic setting, same vaguely disturbing atmosphere... It's all the more obvious that Katy Perry is a fervent follower of a colorful and cartoonish look, which she has been working on since her debut, and which has nothing to do with with this alien costume. Katy, come back, we don't recognize you anymore!

Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna: they are all gaga

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Christina Aguilera and Katy Perry are not the only ones to be influenced by Lady Gaga... In April 2011, in the video for Till the world ends, Britney Spears survives the end of the world in a leather jacket black bristling with peaks, twin of the one worn by Lady Gaga in the clip of Telephone. As for Nicki Minaj, we don't call her the Lady Gaga of hip-hop for nothing... Provocative, she creates surprise at each of her appearances with her outfits, each one more eccentric than the other. And if she ended up getting noticed, it's as much for her musical talent as for her particular style... An attitude and a story that are reminiscent of those of Lady Gaga, anonymous when she sang, dressed like a Ordinary young woman, in the bars of New York, but quickly spotted when she started to wear the delirious outfits of the Pokerface clip in the city. Rihanna, despite her very personal and assertive style, has also been a victim of the Gaga syndrome! In September 2009, we spotted her in an outfit straight out of the Lovegame music video. Hooded tunic, opaque glasses, short black leather gloves... You would think she was disguised as Lady Gaga! Kelly Osbourne, who has long been looking for looks, also went to draw inspiration from Stefani Germanotta, with sunglasses she could have stolen from her wardrobe.

If only the phenomenon only affected singers... But now Paris Hilton is getting into it too! In April 2009, we saw her dressed in one of the most indented outfits, embellished with funny glasses, all for a robotic and provocative style that Lady Gaga would not have shunned.

Grace Jones: The Fishnet War

Often imitated, Lady Gaga didn't totally invent her crazy style. Imbued with pop culture (in January 2009, she confided to the Daily Telegraph that she had written a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst), she multiplies the references to the style of her idols... Like Grace Jones, for example! Interviewed by Entertainment Weekly magazine in 2009, Lady Gaga admits: "I look like Grace Jones". The interested party is far from being flattered by this resemblance, and, in April 2010, complains to the Guardian: "I saw her wearing clothes that I have already worn and it puts me out of me.". Indeed, when we compare certain outfits of the two singers, it is impossible to deny that there is an air of deja vu …

From David Bowie's lightning bolt to Bette Middler's mermaid tail

Lady Gaga has never hidden her admiration for the king of pop rock, David Bowie... And she pays homage to him in the video for Just dance! The flash drawn on her face is a nod to the make-up that the interpreter of Ziggy Stardust wears on the cover of her album Aladdin Sane, released in 1973. More recently, Lady Gaga was outright accused of having plagiarized the Madonna's hit in 1989, Express yourself, to compose Born this way. As for her look in the Telephone clip, with her peroxidized hair, brown eyebrows and red lipstick, it's just a modernized version of the look of the Madonna in the days of Papa don't preach. , in 1986. A look that also recalls that of Cyndi Lauper, who herself does not seem embarrassed that Lady Gaga takes her as a model: in 2010, the two carry out, in all friendship, the promotion of the Viva Glam line for M.A.C. Cosmetics.

In July 2011, Lady Gaga once again gave her fans a feeling of deja vu... In Sydney, she took the stage dressed in a mermaid costume and seated in a wheelchair. A staging that became the signature of actress and singer Bette Middler in the 80s. Emmys in September. Fabulous mermaids can live together!". Meanwhile, Lady Gaga swears on the set of the American show Access Hollywood to have never been aware of the case. It is hard to believe !