Seriously, comparing these two ladies would be like comparing Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera: where do people even come up with this stuff?! Every single singer is unique and special and – just like a snowflake! – no two of them are even remotely alike.
Especially Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga. I’ve been mulling it over for a while now, and I can’t think of a single reason why anyone would compare the two of them. Where are the similarities, I ask you!
Oh, and Nicki would like to know as well:
“Offends me, no. Irks me, yes,” Minaj said when ABC’s Juju Chang asked if the Lady Gaga comparisons do, indeed, offend the similarly flamboyant hip-hop star. “We are in completely different lanes.”
“First of all,” the “Super Bass” artist said defiantly, “I’m a rapper. I’m from southside Jamaica, Queens. I could say some really crazy lyrics right now, but I won’t. Why don’t I turn the cameras around and ask you?”
So, Chang, not wanting to point out that Lady Gaga’s a native New Yorker, too, mentioned that they both wear wigs.
“Wigs?” Minaj retorted. “Every female in this game—every female in this game—wears wigs.”
Um…the clothes, then?
“Over-the-top costumes?” she replied skeptically, making a buzzer sound. “Try again!”
Despite her aversion to being compared to Gaga, however, Minaj had kind things to say about her fellow star.
“Gaga’s a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way,” she added. “She’s opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane, and we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don’t get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn’t sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can’t see the similarities.”
I can see where she’s coming from with some of this. They do have very different music, from the bits I’ve heard from both of them (Gaga doesn’t have any secret rapping talents, does she?), but that’s about it. As far as I know, and correct me if I’m forgetting anyone, but Lady Gaga was the first wildly popular lady in a hot minute to wear truly wacky costumes not only as part of her performance, but as a part of her entire persona as well, and Nicki Minaj is the only other popular lady I can think of who consistently does the same thing. Sure, Katy Perry‘s fashion can get a little out there every now and then, but for the most part, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj are the only ones close to each other in terms of crazy clothes. Right?
And do you think it’s really true that “every female in this game wears wigs”? My goodness, you guys, I’m just getting so disillusioned these days.
OK, I honestly agree and I would like to say that I honestly don´t think they have the same sense in clothing…you know Nicki sees it as “Over-the-top costumes” while Lady Gaga sees it as art, ergo something she just naturally does and if you pay attention you will notice that Gaga would never wear the stuff Nicki wears. Gaga is more dark, professional and fashionable, while Nicki just does it for fun.
yeah, nothing says “art” or “professional” like a cocktail gown made out of raw beef or fake horns on your face. im sure she just “naturally” dresses like that……
It’s kind of you to call what these talentless, constant attention seeking idiots do as music.
Lol that poor interviewer. You know she wanted to tell Minaj that both she and Gaga are obnoxious and presumptuous about their dress and not wearing “costume,” but didn’t want to make her mad.
please she’s like the black (poor man’s) lady gaga