{"id":17280,"date":"2016-12-14T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=17280"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:24:27","slug":"lady-gaga-praises-madonna-inspiring-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/celebrities\/lady-gaga-praises-madonna-inspiring-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga praises Madonna for inspiring speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Lady Gaga praises Madonna for inspiring speech<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Lady Gaga praises Madonna for inspiring speech:-<\/strong> Pop star Lady Gaga has praised Madonna for her inspiring speech where the &#8216;Material Girl&#8217; opened up about facing sexism and rape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;@Madonna your speech at the Billboard Music Awards was inspiring. You&#8217;re so brave &amp; strong. Thanks for being that for us girls we need that,&#8221; Gaga, 30, tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Madonna, 58, gave the emotional address while accepting the Woman of the Year Award at the December 9 event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant misogyny, sexism, constant bullying and relentless abuse,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;When I first moved to New York, I was a teenager, it was 1979, and New York was a very scary place. In the first year, I was held up at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat, and I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I just stopped bolting the door.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Gaga, who is also a rape survivour and advocate for women&#8217;s rights, seemed to be burying the rumoured hatchet with her tweet on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The two ladies were first pitted against each other when Gaga released &#8220;Born This Way&#8221; in 2011, and it sounded similar to Madonna&#8217;s 1989 song &#8220;Express Yourself&#8221; and Madonna called it a blatant rip off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.gdnonline.com\/Details\/149469\/Lady-Gaga-praises-Madonna-for-inspiring-speech<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/celebrities\/lady-gaga-praises-madonna-inspiring-speech.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga praises Madonna for inspiring speech Lady Gaga praises Madonna for inspiring speech:- Pop star Lady Gaga has praised Madonna for her inspiring speech where the &#8216;Material Girl&#8217; opened up about facing sexism and rape. &#8220;@Madonna your speech at the Billboard Music Awards was inspiring. 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