Madonna rubbishes Lady Gaga. Ouch.

So apparently Madonna thinks Lady Gaga is “reductive”.  She’s currently making the rounds promoting her album, M.D.N.A., as well as her film “W.E.”,  and all ears pricked up when she spoke to Cynthia McFadden from GMA on the ABC about her thoughts on Lady Gaga

Here’s a quick transcript in case you can’t watch right now but try to watch it later because it’s not so much the words as the way she says them :

Cynthia: “What do you think about Lady Gaga – do you feel she’s copying you?”

Madonna: “I certainly think she references me a lot in her work, sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well done. I can’t really be annoyed by it or insulted by it, because obviously I’ve influenced her.”

C: “It doesn’t feel like a rip off?”

M: “No, because she’s she and I’m me.”

C: “Would you ever do a duet with her?”

M: “It hasn’t occurred to me, but never say never.”

C: “And when you saw Born This Way -”

M: “When I heard it on the radio, I said yes, that sounds very familiar.”

C: “And that doesn’t feel annoying?”

M: “Um.. it feels reductive.”

C: “Is that good?”

M: “Look it up.”

In a later interview with The Graham Norton Show, Madonna spoke about being impressed when she first saw Gaga performing at a small club in Manhattan a few years ago: “I thought she was really cool and she did remind me of me back in the day. I liked her rawness and there was something fresh about there and ballsy, and when she spoke to the audience, she sounded like she had a similar sense of humor to me, quite ironic, and I liked her. So I do think she is very talented.”

The first single from the new album, “Gimme All Your Luvin,” features Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.; it’s set for release later this month ahead of Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show.

Do you think Gaga is the new Madonna?  Are you  Team Madonna or  Team Gaga?