Madonna is Lady Gaga!

Madonna is famous for reinventing herself.

So much so, in fact, that the word reinventing didn't apply to people at all until Madonna started doing it.

From Blonde Ambition to Evita, from Mom, and woman with the crazy-cut-muscular arms, she paved the way for people like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, and Rihanna.

But after listening to Lady Gaga's latest tome, Born This Way, I kept hearing Madonna's famous Express Yourself in my head.

Apparently I'm not the only one who has noticed the resemblance, as several online bloggers have mashed up the two songs together to illustrate their similarities. Questions like "Did Lady Gaga rip off Madonna and does anyone care?" accompany a poorly edited photo collage of the two women and their respective songs.

But the following question occurred to me:

Where is Madonna?

She's not been in the limelight or pop-news lately....

So....

I think Madonna is Lady Gaga!

I mean, what better reinvention than to transform yourself into a younger, slightly less fit, less attractive (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so this is just my opinion), make-up and wig-clad (to hide the plastic-surgery required to pull off this transformation) twenty-something (year right) antics-ridden artist?

Madonna, you have outdone yourself this time. Unpredictable, once again.

It's all really, about magic. 

Well, it's all really about catchy songs and magic. 

Magic is the art of illusion and part of illusion is distraction. You draw the audiences eye away from the thing you don't want them to see (that Lady Gaga really is Madonna), to the meat-suit-dress or astral-ring-dress or egg/pod-thingy to achieve the desired effect. Also, notice that people don't talk too much about Lady Gaga, I mean Madonna's personal life anymore. She may be guarding it closely to her bosom, but her antics draw our attention away from her personal life and straight to her stage life and crazy outfits/makeup/accouterments.

Case and point: 

Madonna's Express Yourself is blatantly similar to Lady Gaga's Born This Way - in both message/theme, melody, beats-per-minute, vocal range, and musical structure.

The only counter to this potentiality is that Gaga's dancing isn't quite as good as Madonna. However, this is probably just part of Madonna's rouse.

Material Girl, you have outdone yourself.