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  • She's beautiful as a man as well. I would :P

  • annie not copy gaga .... gaga dressed man for Grammy because I had to sing the song where she goes out dressed as a man .... also there is no comparison annie lennox is a great singer and should not be compared with gaga

  • VIVA ANNIE , GAGA GO COPY I DON'T KNOW GRACE JONES OR MADONNA OR CHER OR KYLIE OR MURPHY OR LUBA OR...WAIT SHE ALREADY COPIED ALL OF THEM BOOO

  • This was the first time that a female performer appeared on an award show (The Grammys) dress as a man.

  • @s8k8p97 I think the point people are making is " she is hardly original"... and wether she is copying or not, it has all been done before..

  • gagamerde!!! apprendre danser saloppe!!!tes coreo font chier....

  • Great performance!

  • WTF? And they say it's just like gagas performance , no its not and I bet gaga don't know who the hell is she this is so different and if u want to compare gagas performance was 998766554789976532139987787678­786676765434545435453545435535­543465456343563654364545634365­356454365463564444564546554645­565654545645656546456564564666­54665446566654564654666 times better : p this sucks I'm out -_-

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  • If you watched this after a reference to this from CharliehidesTv video "Cher's Midnight Tweets!"

  • It's not all about Annie. Dave Stewart is very talented, and recently produced a number of new songs for Stevie Nicks in 2011. This song, "Sweet Dreams" was fantastic ... and it's still played a lot.

  • Annie was clearly top of her game in '84! She's got the balls to be a man and her style was copied by many others! And don't forget she was the first to wear bra on stage in late '86!

  • Clearly, Dave Stewart is copying Tina Turners' hair style. Is nothing sacred anymore?

  • Said this before I'll say it again though Annie Lennox is one of 3 women in R&R since the frigging 60's who had one of the best , strongest, cleanest voices in the business. Unfrigging real vocal talent this woman has. The other 2? Gracie Slick and Pat Benatar. lol

  • Me too

  • I wished i lived in the 80's. :(

  • Dressing in drag and making something up that is totally unique to the person are totally different...I had this discussion with one of my friends. Lady Gaga didn't just dress like a man for the fun of it...she was playing a role...hello people i think that it is time for you to notice what it means to be in character...

  • @LOLI271991 or Dustin Hoffmann was a king of plagiarism as he played a girl (Tootsie)! But the same did Tyler Perry, Miguel A. Núñez, John Lithgow, JD Pardo, Harland Williams, George Sanders, Eddie Murphy (2 times), Barry Watson, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, Shawn Wayans, Guy Pearce, Tony Curtis, Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Johnny Depp, Jack Lemmon, Jaye Davidson, Patrick Swayze, Michael Rosenbaum, John Leguizamo, Robin Williams, Wesley Snipes, Tim Curry and so on. So SFU ignorant moron!

  • @LOLI271991 You're fool. There's many women in history who performed like guy. Nobody of them are plagiarist. You're just seeking a cause to offend GaGa. Idiot!

  • lol looks like wolvarine

  • You guys are being idiots. Annie Lennox simply just impersonated Elvis. Lady Gaga created a character, with a personality, an alter-ego. And besides, Annie Lennox was NOT the first female to do drag! Others long time ago did it.

  • @nik8099 Annie didnt improvise Elvis! this is the look she did for the Whos That Girl video. Its really sad when people invent things without being a fan of the Eurythmics or Annie. Get your facts straight. Ive been a fan of Eurythmics since 1982 and have followed them since.

  • @nik8099 It's THE EXACT SAME LOOK. Gaga hasn't done anything ground breaking or original. It's not that she's an awful artist but holding her up as some kind of innovator is just naive and pathetic. She's none of those things. She doesn't have to be to be an above average pop star.

  • @Ponyboy1 Gaga copied Annie, she is not original, and doesn't even give credit where credit is due. Bette Midler already bitched Gaga out for copying her mermaid in a wheel chair and not giving Bette credit.

  • @bloderme eh. Although it's been done, Annie was clearly referencing Elvis, while Gaga was more generic 1950s. I think this instance is less of a ripoff than the mermaid thing. It's not like Annie invented drag.

  • this is a womam or a men ???? talk me !!!

  • Music is one rip off after another....still ripping off Mozart......ripping off Count Basie.....ripping off The Beatles....Madonna.....Chuck Berry......Beach Boys.....but there was only one Michael Jackson....ummmm Prince ...no I mean James Brown no no I meant Jackie Wilson ahhhhhh forget it !!!!

  • Lady Gaga Uma Estrela De Verdade !

  • @Wendelmaggic Lady Gaga es una verdarera mierda

  • é essa ai que ta acusando a lady gaga de plágio ???? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk­kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk morri de rir agora!

    ela deveria é agradecer a Lady Gaga Por Ter Feito uma apresentação melhor que essa no vma 2011 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk que dó que dó que dóóóóó rsrs

    fora que essa daí parece uma mumia cantando ! ¬¬ kkk

  • @Wendelmaggic

    Tá de brincadeira, né?

  • @TezQuetz não, não estou brincando ! nem to afim de brigar por um vídeo, apenas expressei minha opinião.

  • AWESOME... THIS IS AMAZING!! I LOVE THIS SONG SOO MUCH

  • esta gaga es puro plagio xd....

  • This is what Lady Gaga tried to do

  • Well, you can say Annie Lennox rippped off Marlene Dietrich! It's ridiculous to say Gaga ripped her off - Through the ages women have done drag. Do you think only men do so? I adore both Annie and Gaga.

  • @corinne54 Marlene Dietrich never fully dressed as a man? Dietrich only wore a suit in the film 'Morroco' (1930)much in the way Cabaret artists were doing in Germany in the early 30s, she always wore full feminine makeup and curled her bob! I dont think that Gaga directly ripped Lennox off too much... i just dont see why all Gaga's brainwashed 'little monsters' believe she is so original... she is intelligent enough to play a smart game to make money, but she isnt original!

  • There is no any compare between EURYTHMICS and Lady CACA , jajaja.

    Eurythmics did this 27 years ago!!! and for the ones whom doesn't really know EURYTHMICS music, come on!!!!!! there is no comparition.. PLEASE!!!!!

  • Hahaha this video is famous now after Gaga's performance haha LOL. Everybody wants to compare.. come one... get over it.

  • @OrianaDiazL love this comment.

  • @OrianaDiazL Oh come on... we are not comparing anything, Gaga is not original at all, but everything i see she does has something that's similar to something that's been done before, so no one is comparing, maybe she's copying and the people who were not born in 91, knows it and says "Wait! i've seen that before"... Have a great day ;)

  • She looks like Tommy from the Shawshank Redemption...:D

  • @pascha120 Also I'm sure there were many women doing drag in underground/secret clubs way before the musicals Victor/Victoria and Cabaret came along too!

    If Gaga was copying anything she was copying/appropriating the whole concept behind the musical Victor/Victoria and not this Annie Lennox performance.

  • @pascha120 What are the differences? Gaga hasn't done anything controversial or original- She steals and steals and steal. She's a great player but an awful AWFUL songwriter. Again- what are the differences? HOW does Gaga's performance matter other than as an imitation?

  • list of epic people that support gaga. Gene Simmons, Marilyn Manson, Brian May, Alice Cooper, Elton John, Cher(duet with gaga to be released next month), Patti Labelle, Liza Minnelli, Marina Abramovic, Terence Koh, Peaches, Takashi Murakami, Cyndi Lauper, Nicko McBrain, Ozzy osbourne, Clarence Clemons, haters can shut up.

  • @KrisM2010 So??... that's so dumb... "Epic people who support gaga" it's like you are saying, she's worth it or as so much talent because those artists support her, let's see in 20 years if she's still around and with much success as some other legends. Let's see ;)

  • @electronichell gaga aint going anywhere, and what i'm saying is those people recognize talent. so deal with it. gaga is amazing. sorry.

  • we forget that annie lenox was doing an impression of elvis. after the show she was herself. jo calderone was is an alter ego, not a nod toward elvis. sorry people. you're all failing epicly.

  • It was to look like Elvis ?

  • @angelmathias She did!

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  • @angelomathias omg what a bullshit comment! Crock of shit, dude! When did Miss Cleo die and make you psychic?

  • This is a fucking great performance!

  • @angelomathias nice grammar shithead

  • Well start with the fact that Lennox is not positioned itself in the guise of men

    moreover, it sexual orientation, and its image is just a Butch.

    she never called himself a man on the scene, it was just a woman in a man's suit.

    As for Gaga, it is generally another history .She presented her male alter ego.no girl in the men's dressing, namely a single male character.

  • Madonna was also in the way men and Cher, they are not copied Annie?

  • Annie Presley copied, Gaga is an entirely different image!!

  • boring. gaga is better.

  • @TeamGermanottaOnYT because shitty narcissistic monologue and horrible performance of a hackneyed attempt at country are somehow better than a classic well put together song. Just face it Eurhythmics are timeless while your idol is a self absorbed cunt.

  • @LOLI271991 What a load of bull. It's not called plagiarism, it's called INSPIRATION. As if Annie Lennox was the first woman on earth to dress up as a man.

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  • to say that lady gaga 'looked nothing like this for the vma's' is clearly a deluded monster.

  • @GeniusAmongTards does anyone actually own drag for it to be copied? Gaga didn't even look like that at the VMAs. totally different characterizations. and another thing, Lady Gaga's fans are eccentrics who care more about the art than the judgment of other people. and that's not something idiotic.

  • @GeniusAmongTards Which is funny because the same could be said about Annie. Cher did something very similar in her variety show. And Marlene Dietrich exists. Two big instances or drag kings. Nothing is original, ever. Only constant improvements are made to the same formulas over and over every generation. And there's nothing wrong with that at all. And to those saying she looked like a crackhead, that was the whole shtick. She was playing an exaggerated character who was a pervert alcoholic.

  • I wasn't even born when this performance aired and it was a good thing, too. I would have fallen in love so bad. *Gazes at Annie with dreamy eyes* So handsome...

  • tranny lady has no shame

  • who cares? make some dumplings for hungry peeps

  • U R ALL DISRESPECFUL FUKS N LARUIEANN COMMANDS U 2 STOP

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  • I love Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics so much, and I really can't stand people fighting on this video. This performance was born out of a passion for music and art, and it shows. So was Gaga's, and it shows. Drag kings have been around for really long time, and neither of them were the first, nor will they be the last to do it. Neither of them will admit that they were, either. No, not even Gaga. She has always been open about her influences. Annie loves her, too.

  • @joshfantasy77 "I myself can look at almost any hemline, silhouette, beadwork, or heel architecture and tell you very precisely who designed it first, what French painter they stole it from, how many designers reinvented it after them, and what cultural and musical movement parented the birth, death, and resurrection of that particular trend. So dear critics and bullies: get your library cards out, because I’m about to do a reading.: Lady GaGa

  • "I myself can look at almost any hemline, silhouette, beadwork, or heel architecture and tell you very precisely who designed it first, what French painter they stole it from, how many designers reinvented it after them, and what cultural and musical movement parented the birth, death, and resurrection of that particular trend. So dear critics and bullies: get your library cards out, because I’m about to do a reading.: Lady GaGa

  • gaga se copio de annie lennox .. q original...

  • Lady Gaga doesn't have an original thought in her head.

    That's cool tho - the ladies on "The View" think you're outrageous and cutting-edge.

    Here's to Annie Lennox 27 years ago.

  • @spykatt art appropriation...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is; definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. i have just gotten so fed up with how much people don't know about art, yet they try to talk about it like they know what they're saying. no. no you don't know. so educate yourself!

  • @KrisM2010 - "Art Appropriation" - is that anything like "Found Art"?

    Remember that from "Ghost World" - they were goofing on the concept there as well.

    "Inspired by" and "Copying" are not synonymous.

    Lady Gaga is nothing special - trust me.

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  • @spykatt oh, and no offense. i'm about to graduate with a bachelors in fine arts degree at one of the best schools in this country. i'm not going to take art advice from someone quoting "Ghost World".

  • @spykatt no. found object is usually different, appropriation sort-a began with marcel duchamp's "ready made's". appropriation has nothing to do with being inspired by an artist, you can be inspired by an artist and make work that's completley different, The deliberate "borrowing" or appropriation of an image for this new context is called "recontextualization." Recontextualization helps the artist comment on the objects original meaning and the viewer's association with the original object.

  • Annie Lennox en los Grammy de 1984 ella fue vestida de Elvis, en cambio Jo es el Alter Ego de Gaga... Ya esta

  • simplemente se vistio de hombre. GaGa actuó!!!! se burlo de ella misma, tomo cerveza, presento una leyenda, bailó todo. no me parece copiado. xD

  • Annie Lennox is amazing, Lady Gaga who is undeniably gifted is going to have to show that can go further than copycatting other stars own personal formulas.

  • @scsalazarma art appropriation...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is; definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. i have just gotten so fed up with how much people don't know about art, yet they try to talk about it like they know what they're saying. no. no you don't know. so educate yourself!

  • REGARDING GAGA:Did you all ever think that the BEST way to give "props" to people who influenced you was to copy them, when they haven't been seen in their prime in 20+ years... igniting a media and troll shit-storm that brings these past gems to light?

    Lady Gaga is NOT an idiot. She knows damn well that people would know she was borrowing from the past. Did ANYONE EVER conceive that it was ON PURPOSE?

  • @Effectionhate woot woot! you said it!

  • so i'm going to be a troll about this because i'm tired of how dumb people are when it comes to REAL art...art appropriation...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is, you have no right to comment on anything gaga does. definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art.

  • so i'm going to be a troll about this because i'm tired of how dumb people are when it comes to REAL art...art appropriation...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is, you have no right to comment on anything gaga does. definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art.

  • Gaga is the best :)

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  • Gaga gave a rebirth to this video hahahaha

  • If Gaga was so amazing and creative like everyone says, she wouldn't have people criticizing her for copying all the time. It's that simple.

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  • @KrisM2010 So essentially she's a glorified tribute act?

    And by the way, she's an egotistical bitch that either backtracks or throws a fit whenever she's accused of borrowing someone else's ideas. She herself doesn't seem to think she's "appropriating". She thinks she's a genius and the voice of a generation.

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  • @YesImACunt ah from the mouth of someone uneducated about art practices...The deliberate "borrowing" or appropriation of an image for this new context is called "recontextualization." Recontextualization helps the artist comment on the image's original meaning and the viewer's association with the original image or the real thing. gaga hs never thrown a fit when people call her out on what she does. she's actually admited to the fact she''s done it multiple times. but you obviously don't know.

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  • Funny how Gaga fans have to always defend another artist that Gaga has ripped off. It must be draining, lol. Ace of Base, Madonna, Annie Lennox, who's next? Gaga doesn't have a original thought in her brain.

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  • @battleboy777 I AGREE! I predict the next artist is Marilyn Manson!....wait nevermind.

  • @mglover145 art appropriation...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is, you have no right to comment on anything gaga does. definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art.

  • @battleboy777 actually, funny you don't know what art is. art appropriation...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is, you have no right to comment on anything gaga does. definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art.

  • @KrisM2010 If you don't give credit to the original artist that you're "borrowing" from, then you're implying that you created it, which in fact defeats the purpose of appropriation. Gaga never gives credit to the original artists. She pawns it off as it's her own.

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  • @battleboy777 "I myself can look at almost any hemline, silhouette, beadwork, or heel architecture and tell you very precisely who designed it first, what French painter they stole it from, how many designers reinvented it after them, and what cultural and musical movement parented the birth, death, and resurrection of that particular trend. So dear critics and bullies: get your library cards out, because I’m about to do a reading.: Lady GaGa

  • @KrisM2010 Still waiting to see your pindick, compadre!

  • @battleboy777 the appropriation of the object is the credit, they do not have to pay for, or give any further credit to the original after that. that is the whole art of appropriation. been around since the turn of the 20th century. please research before you try to discuss. it's so sad how dumb the world is to art and art practices that have been around for years.

  • @KrisM2010 Perfect comment!

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  • gaga did not copy her and annie is dressed as a man...gaga was dressed as Jo Calderone..look him up before you start bashing her for copying

  • Haters talking about Gaga here ?? Emmm obsessed much i think ???

  • I didn't know that dress up like a man is copycat. OMG the people is so stupid.

  • To all the people claiming Lady Gaga copied Jo: Are you aware Jo is an alter ego? He was in the You and I Music video, the You and I single cover and appeared in a photoshoot last year. Expect him to be in a fucking performance once in a while, Annie isn't the first to do drag and certainly wasn't the last. #IGNORANCE

  • art appropration...been around since the turn of the 20th century people, if you don't know what it is, you have no right to comment on anything gaga does. definition - to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. The deliberate "borrowing" of an image for this new context is called "recontextualization."

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  • Annie Lennox looks so handsome in here. If this was a real man and I saw him in the streets I would give him a second look. Lady Xerox on the other hand looks like a crackhead who hasn't had a shower in a year.

  • @MaximilianMontesa Thank you!

  • @MaximilianMontesa  LOL hahahahaha

  • Young people don´t know the original versions. Lady Gaga is full of bullshit. I mean she´s talented of course, she knows how to sing, and play the piano but her "creativity" is just a rip off of previous great artists. I use to love her, but now i know she´s only a product. And her ridiculous dresses are not her creation. So she´s jsut another pop managed product.

  • @Rejito no actually you're full of bull shit, because NO ONE knows what art appropriation is, which is sad since it's been an accepted art practice sine the turh of the 20th century. here's a defination of it for ya. artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. They are not stealing or plagiarizing. They are not passing off these images as their very own. to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture.

  • @KrisM2010 Andy warhol´s work is based on it. and it isn´t like u described it. You´re transforming the concept in order to justify copying.i taught old gaga was very original in her paparazzi video, and performance. She APPROPIATED some surreal concepts (such as the metropolis meca)and turned into something great. BUt then she´s done too much rip offs.There is more to creativity not everything has been done yet. i think is her producers who r telling her what to do nowadays. Have a nice life.

  • @Rejito no, andy warhol was not the father of appropriation, though he did work in it, so very good. HOWEVER what gaga does in similar to CYNDI SHERMAN'S style of appropriation, look her up. sherman takes on the guises of public figures in history, gaga takes on the guises of or pop culture socialites. also, i'm about to graduate with a bachelors in fine arts, i know my concepts and can explain them very clearly, sorry that you do not.

  • @KrisM2010 Uhh..where did i wrote Andy W was the father of appropriation?? he was just an exmple. I honestly don´t care about you geting a bachelor in fine arts, it doesn´t reflect on your opinions (that´s my opinion) if others(yourself included) think you´re an amazing art critique, GREAT, you´ll have a nice future.Anyways There´s nothing more subjective than art itself. We all have our own opinons of it. However thanks for the info, ill google cyndi. Good luck defending gaga. have a nice life

  • @Rejito you didn't. i was just stating that andy warhol is only a single representation of appropriation. he is not the prime example though, and he did not create it. i'm not defending gaga per-say, i'm defending art, i don't care about being an art critic either, but i at least know what i'm talking about before i go talking my mouth off.

  • @KrisM2010 "i at least know what i'm talking about before i go talking my mouth off." Excellent, that´ll be very helpfull in your life. Have a nice one.

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  • Eternal.This song is beyond time...awesome!

  • im going to quote coco chanel........everything has already been done.you cant only reinvent it.............well its something like that

  • jo calderone is better

  • @rares183 OF COURSE JO IS BETTER!!

  • There is a rich history of women dressing up as men or vice versa found in folklore, literature, theater, music and used for disguise, performance art and as a literary trope in modern times and throughout history. NO ONE is original in a gender bender role. Gaga is Jo, more Italian look & Annie has more Elvis Presley look

    Also, the 'almost' kiss between Gaga as a drag king & Britney as a girl on the VMAs was the first ever done in the VMAs history & on the US televisions. Annie didn't have it

  • @gagaohrara The attempted Britney/Gaga kiss was just Gaga trying to copy Madonna YET AGAIN.

  • @YesImACunt actually, britney started to go in for the kiss before gaga, so, epic fail on your part.

  • @YesImACunt Madonna's the kiss is between women as I did mention, and Gaga's kiss is between a drag king and a girl. That's the big difference, and has never happened before in the VMAs history.

  • There is a rich history of women dressing up as men or vice versa found in folklore, literature, theater, music and used for disguise, performance art and as a literary trope in modern times and throughout history. NO ONE is original in a gender bender role. Gaga is Jo, more Italian look & Annie has more Elvis Presley look

    Also, the 'almost' kiss between Gaga as a drag king & Britney as a girl on the VMAs was the first ever done in the VMAs history & on the US televisions. Annie didn't have it

  • Annie Lennox seems to be channeling Elvis here, Where Gaga created the character Joe based off her ex-boyfriends and father.

  • Don't think it's plagia ! Jo is Jo ! Annie is Annie !! Fuck !

  • who cares if someone dressed in drag 27 freaking years ago. that doesn't mean it can never be redone. all music and performances borrow from the past. Gaga did a great job of acting the part...

  • Sorry Lady GaGa, its been done and here is proof......And done MUCH better than your VMA stunt. ANNIE LENNOX can NOT be copied. She is like MADONNA she is in a league of her own.

  • Gaga is more hot.

  • lmao Gaga loves to copy stuff.

  • YOU AND I PRODUCE BY BRAIN MAY

  • Thumbs up if you got here from GAGA vma

  • and Lady Gaga in 2011 offers the same clothes... this is not honest, without citing the source

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