Grace can do no wrong in my book. She's in that Josephine Baker, cher, and Tina category for me. They invented what you see these girls doing today. Love her!!
It's kinda scary how right she was! Lady Gaga has said multiple times now that she never really was into her crazy outfits and was forced to wear them by her team and that shes actually embarrassed by them
@@mathisgttr1339 She did multiple times. In early 2016 she always was ashamed whenever someone brought up her past outfits during interviews, she even talked multiple times about how other people planned out her life against her will, in 2015 at Yale university she even talked about how she recently started saying "no" to things she didn't want to do, in 2017 she talked about how producers wanted her to dress in a specific way to sell more records in Five Foot Two, during ASIB interview she also talked about how self conscious she was about herself and always used crazy outfits to distract from herself, hence why she felt very uncomfortable without make up in the movie
@COCO BROWN exactly! A couple weeks ago a hacker hacked a popular celebrity law firm and leaked all of Lady Gaga’s documents and schedules and literally every single move of hers has to be approved by her record company, it’s literally in her contracts. Even the time she sleeps or eats. I also went through some contracts from musicians from the 80s and realized that they had much more freedom back then. The music industry really has become an absolutely evil and vile industry, it’s all about money and nothing else anymore.
@COCO BROWN That really is BRILLIANT! It's like Grace wrote that song about the future of the music industry! But they won't have them sing that, since it's too intellectual for them. Nowadays the more absurd, simple and vulgar a song is, the more money it makes and the more "genius" it is.
I totally agree...DO WHAT YOU FEEL BEFORE LOOKING OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF FOR A TRUE CREATION!!!!!!!!!!!...perhaps what you're doing it's been made before...but I think that the personal view & feeling of everything is that true creation!!!!!!!!!!!!
....Grace is one of the most influential visualists of the 20th century...truly mesmerizing to watch and she is to be studied....she is completely authentic in what she wears and on her nothing looks forced...
Red Lox my girl too. Still relevant! I checked your UA-cam channel out thats how I found it. She sure did tell them to shut the f up. Silence when the Queen is speaking. They know better
Red Lox it's funny some of my longtime g+ friends just started subscribing to my channel in the past week. Its a good thing. Some of the playlists were made private by mistake, I have to straighten that out. Thanx Red
A friend introduced me to Grace Jones and It was love at first sight! Anyone who owns their presence their sexuality and is hell on a stage.....im in love with them!♡♡♡ I have a song I hope to finish this year but the video I plan to bite from Ms.Grace.....lol....Freaky Fabulous thank u TONE B HURT hugs
All the greatest artists you can name started out young and inspired by those who came before them and imitated what they liked. The reason they became great is that they went beyond imitation and created their own look, sound, style. Grace Jones is in a realm all her own!!!!!
...and they treated her as the ultimate muse....at the highest level and at the deepest level....THEN she became a singer in the new genre of music called....DISCO...and then things got real interesting....and the rest is history....
@CotardDelusion Gaga has always said from the beginning that Grace Jones and others like Bowie have inspired her. Philip Treacy makes hats for her. Wearing clothes that designers give her is not copying. Nobody owns image and style. People will forever be influenced by their predecessors undoubtedly. Gaga does not claim originality but rather freedom from the "pop" mold and its clear in the music industry today pretty isnt enough you have to have and edge. stop the hate.
I don't think in this lifetime their will ever be anything even close the brilliance of Grace Jones. I think we all know that, and i love what she's saying in this clip. Ya know i love UA-cam etc, etc, because it allows us access to watch stuff we like, but it has also kept many people from looking within themselves for creativity. Love you Grace ,we always will. you truly are one of the most unique creatures ever created on this earth.
She is so right What grace do to her own character with all of unique fashion creation Its all comes from her own self, her mind, her feeling Thats why she never lost her personality
they collaborated, and he was inspired by her, well in his terms "obsessed". without grace and you put someone else with the same styling it just wouldn't be the same, besides you should have a look at pre-goude photos of her before she even meet him, grace is just iconic and a original
@LittleAnahiRBD14 She didn't have to mention GAGA, especially as SOCIETY AS A WHOLE has identified GAGA as a plaigarist of Grace's style. It's so evident, that Grace doesn't have to mention her name, the egregious copying speaks for itself.
@LittleAnahiRBD14 GAGA does not just blindly wear anything these designers tell her to. She has a say and control over the designs and her looks. And the outfits that aren't similar to Grace's are similar to others. She doesn't have her own style; it's nothing more than COMPOSITE OF OTHERS SHE'S "INSPIRED" BY.
@TGIAustin911 Grace isn't off the radar. She has been touring all over the world, specifically in Europe and Asia for the past two decades. This woman can sing in multiple languages, and can do a little opera too (even has done duets with Pavorotti before he died. Many Americans seem to think that just because an entertainer isn't all over American MTV, they're "off the radar" Grace has a loyal cult following that extends beyond the U.S.
It was a soundbite. You cannot judge someone on a soundbite. I don't think she forgot about Jean-Paul. She had his son who is a living reminder of him. I also read that they are still friends. Grace was and is a force to be reckoned with.
Compare an artist with others one it's ridiculous. Gaga talent is authentic and real and she never spoken bad to others artist ,this is the right behaviour that a real and big artist must be have . Grace and Madonna feeling gelous and In my opinion it does not support their carrers.
Lol we all know that gaga rihanna madonna did get style influence by someone else who wore the looks first. Grace is so influential in fashion industry its a crime shes not recognized more.
Grace is the ONLY diva that counts and a real artist. The rest of them Madonna, Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce all look like high school talent show contestants compared to Grace. The only other female vocal artist that I can think of who matches the same level of artistry and talent but in a completely different genre is Kate Bush.
@LittleAnahiRBD14 You mean to tell me you find it to be quite ironic that her "experimentations" seems to MIRROR damned near everything that Grace Jones wore in the 80's and 90s ( there are even you tube videos that prove this. )
@LittleAnahiRBD14 When GAGA first came out (before she gained much popularity), I acrually like her and her style because it was hers. Then her shock tactics ensued and she took any means necessary to achive that, which mainly included researching the likes of grace jones and copying their avant garde style.
Grace Jones was looked down on when she first started out, people couldn't cope with strong woman that had no fear in being different. She never gave a shxt hence why i love her for her strength. ❤
To all the people ripping on gaga first of all she's a very artistic person she's a performance artist she's inspired by grace she's found her way I think the first year aka 2008 witch was the last time grace came out with an album they had a lot of similarities but u have to get that gaga would dress insane and crazy because designers would pay her also her label would force her to be sexy but she didn't want that so she put an artistic spin on that with idk wearing the same clothes as grace THEY ARE DESIGNERS NOT COPYRIGHTED IMAGES
I think Grace should get some of the credit for the Gagas and the Rihannas style. Grace is very underappreciated IMO for her style influence these days.
@@daniella921yes but also she’s not a vocalist she’s a model and performer, calling gaga an empty vessel when she’s gotten way more awards and reached further than grace in only like 13 years is hilarious. I understand style but majority of graces looks were on the runway also
I know about Grace Jones, she's incredibly cool. I know about Lady Gaga also, and there's no such a thing that made think she copied Jones. Lady Gaga is moved by her own personal artistic principles, and some of the work she's done is about expressing an individual creative mind, also what she does is actually unique and distinctive. Mind what you say guys, if you don't know much about it.
I would say more influence than copy. Just as GAGA has influenced. As Miss Jones has said she was influenced and exposed to many creative forces in becoming her unique self. Before GAGA there was no one as outrageous, shocking or daring than Grace Jones in music. Along with this she possessed amazing talent and intelligence just as LG. Good observation and comment. Pioneers both!
Her brother is a preacher on a sho called preacher of LA and he said that ga ga have been reaching out to grace who inspired her but grace jones want nothing to do with her. If lady ga ga is admitting her inspiration, why are you taking it away? Its obvious that no one dared to do the things jones did or wore on stage before grace jones
+bklynbobby1 idiot, u really think it was jones who chose what she would wear on the cat walk or how to dress it up. dear me some people really do take it all on board after 20 years to have worked that out. muppet !
I don't mind artists copying, but Grace is right, you have to know what you want to say to the world emotionally and stylistically. Madonna spent her whole carer flicking from punk to reggae to whatever was fashionable at the time before she finally broke through on pop. She sold out on any roots she ever had and as a result, she never did anything distinctive as an artist except make money. I think that's also why Jones was so amazing in movies, really high class and glamourous, while Madonna was complete trash.
M a d o n n a Ah now I get it - you think I'm accusing her of copying her work from other people. No. You didn't watch the video. If you don't watch the video, you don't understand my comment. Do us both a favor would you?
Ah... yes you're right. Actually I have issues with Madonna, which I am pleased to share. Madonna and Jones for me, are opposites. They are at existential extremes from one another. I think of Jones as a performer with something to say and it was her message itself, her vision which pushed her forward to say it, as with, say Blondie, Patti Smith. Madonna was always obsessed principally by being a star, and she did all the hard work it takes to get there and she would do anything it took, but she never had anything new to offer. She was forever trying to work out what was fashionable and jump on that train. Her songs were about being in love, about desire about material and sexual freedom. These were original themes in the 1960s. In the 80s, they were virtually compulsory attitudes. They would have been distinctive coming from a woman in Afghanistan. Women in New York take such freedoms as fairly central. I mean no-one's completely original, and originality isn't everything. Some of the songs were effective. Like a Virgin was good dance floor. But she didn't write it. Ray of Light is quite good. But I can't imagine it wasn't bought on order from Kate Bush. The idea that women could be strong was ... not new. The ancient Greeks had strong women in their mythology and you can see that throughout history. To be fair, by wearing a black bra and singing about wanting money, she did transform contemporary feminism. She redefined it as winning at the male ideal as well as the female ideal. It was no longer about liberation. It was a quest for power on all fronts. I'm not one to lecture about feminism, but talk to women studied feminism before Madonna turned up. Ask them whether you can liberate yourself from sexual stereotypes by competing inside them... or whether you can conquer men and money without commodifying yourself. This isn't Virginia Wolf you'r looking at. It's Ronald Reagan in a wig and a dress. Most traditional feminists thought she turned feminism into capitalism. This "Lean In" type feminism empowers privileged white women. It doesn't liberate anybody else. It enslaves them to the corporations those women are working in. But going back to the music and the women concerned, when I look at Madonna, I see a woman going "Hey - Look at me. I'm strong! Hey look at me. I'm sexy. Hey look at me. I'm in rich and famous and in love ... Look no hands!" It's like she's doing those things as an act to get people's attention. Grace Jones doesn't care what you think. Nobody would have guessed that what she was doing would work. She did it because it honestly expressed how she felt. I think that' why Jones came across well on screen. Well neither of them could really act. Like Swarzenegger, they are just themselves. But here's the thing - Jones happens to be an interesting person. Madonna is like a 6 year old wearing dresses and posing in the mirror. Her acting made you wonder what kind of child neglect left her with that level of attention seeking behavior. She was constantly second-guessing. Try punk. Didn't work... Try Reggae... Didn't work. OK what next? She would have done polka if that's what the crowds wanted. Real reggae is about discovering roots. Real punk is about uprooting. And I think Madonna knows this. It irks her she's a gatecrasher at art's party. In the movie, when she meets the writers of Like A Virgin, and she's absolutely uninterested in how they wrote it. It could be mistaken for magesterial arrogance - "I'm too important to meet mere minions such as these" But the truth is they embarrass her. They remind her of the fact she's trading on other people's talent. She doesn't have it coming from the hip like them. I mean Jones is a goddamn warrior. She sings for the art. If nobody was interested, she would be writing, romancing and seducing, because she is not getting n touch with her audience, she is getting in touch with her nature. Madonna is moved by marketing. Jones is moved by her muse. So that's basically it. Jones is in love with life. Madonna, with herself. Jones wants to challenge, Madonna to conform. "You can make money, you can have sex, you can do anything you want" isn't a message, its the American religious mantra. So your statement, "She inspired millions of people" is back to front She didn't inspire anybody. They inspired her! She's a democratic decision, a customer survey. She told them what they told her to tell them. Where is the communication? Jones is working from perception, awareness and vision. Madonna is wants to know what other people want her to see. Jones is uncompromising, Madonna aims to be as compromised as possible. Compare her with other solid female performers of her time - , Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Tracy Chapman, Blondie, Laurie Anderson, KD Laing, Tori Amos... - They all , each and every one of them, developed their own unique style and stuck with it. None of them flirted with any other style than their own peculiar style and none of them tried to work from anything other than where they were at. Comparing her with all these, I don't really think of Madonna as an artist at all. She's a business woman who sees an angle in appearing as an artist. To understand artistic integrity requires that you have some. Madonna had a desperate sense of her glamour. Grace had nothing else. If Grace forgot her roots for an instant, they never forgot her. Grace had... Grace. Just my two cents.
it is so distinctive! Gaga's stuff liooks NOTHING like it. Both grace and gaga are amazing! Some people need to just shut up and enjoy their music! :-)
It's funny to me the way Lady GaGa is like the first ever female pop artist who's name is always either followed by talented or begins with talented. I never heard anybody say the talented Madonna or the talented Grace Jones or the talented Janet Jackson--yet they all wrote & composed & produced their own music as well. I think Lady Gaga gets way too much credit. I don't need to watch vintage GaGa I know she's gifted but she's not alone & she's far from singular in any musical department!!!
@chrisb1511 UMMM YES PEOPLE DO OWN FASHION AND STYLE and can sue for it as well. Christian Louboutin STOPPED other low-end retailers from stealing his red-bottom shoe designs... YSL sued Ralph Lauren years ago for copying his women's tuxedo suit concept and the list goes on...
@aviationnatiom you are so young GRACE IS A QUEEN THE QUEEN im only 21 But I was raised to know real music and talent. Grace is it she did it before any of these ladies. she was a model, trendsetter, actress (bond girl), great singer wonderful musician she was and still is it. so stop hating and learn about real music hunty
Come on this is click bait - I wanted to check if she said anything suggested by the title of this video but she was very fair and never mentioned Lady Gaga. I admire both - of course Grace is a true original and living art but Lady Gaga has vocal talents and musical artistry that GJ hasn't - both great at what they do!
@TGIAustin911 If per chance you have seen the James Bond movie 'a view to kill', you would have come across Grace Jones before Lady Gaga. She plays the main villain.
so because some club kids once told grace jones that “madonna was hiding out in the back row of her show” it means it’s true ? lol …madonna wouldn’t have been able to hide in the back of a club at a grace jones show in the 80s even if she tried…
Grace didn't invent pauses from talking..did she ? She doesn't have originality....she doesn, but not the way she speaks...Also, Gaga is way more popular than Grace and a better singer, which makes Gaga more original..
@TASconfidential All that few copying happend like 2 years ago when Gaga was still new to the music scene,but now she has her own style,she´s unique as a person and in fashion sense!
@TASconfidential Gaga has a bunch of outfits that aren´t even a bit similiar to Grace´s! It´s true that some of them are similiar but that´s designers fault not Gaga´s,Gaga just wears the clothes! Maybe Grace inspired her,who knows! Even though she´s only 25 years old she already has her own style and amazing fashion sense!
But Gaga has done some good things in her career as far as work outside of music. I'd love to see if Gaga can stand the test of time and keep preforming and inspiring others and her fans well into her 60s and look just as good if possible.
To me it's about how natural it feels. To me Gaga is a fake, I've seen the before and afters and seeing that makes it hard for me to believe her 'born this way' thing so it gives me a MTV intern produced into an 'artist' feeling. To me Grace has a natural ability to pull off her style and music; Gaga looks like she's still struggling to find herself through the changes. Don't hate Gaga her style isn't to my taste nor is her music (seems mediocre to me).
this just goes to show that when ever white people do it, it's cool. Like Souxie and the banshees and Soho , Bo didley and Elvis, Grace jones and lady gaga. that's just how it goes I guess
shes absolutely true... now lady gaga has come out with her real art not being manipulated by avantgarde machine.. now lady gaga is just her real self.. i hope grace would be pround of her.
They have no reason to be. If Gaga ever admitted inspiration( which she doesnt) it would be a different thing but she thought Born This Way was original and got offended by the media calling her out, just like she probably did here with what Grace said. It's only musicly retards who cant see the inspiration and influence and think shes original and the fact she never admitted to it makes it plagiarism.
You can look up Pre-Madonna tapes (before she blew up) songs like: Stay (demo) Don't You Know, Burning Up (demo) (Take Me) I Want You... The songs were good & before there was anybody to borrow from because back in the days white female artist were not recording songs like those--they were recording songs like "Pat Benetar or Blondie" and she created music from nothing when there was nothing to reference in terms of style. Wrote & composed from nothing yet you never hear "talented" Madonna. Why?
So what she plays a piano that makes you unique these days? How about the fact that if you view those same video's her music sounded very different & dare a say boring until she started borrowing other artist style (Madonna, Janet, Grace, Bowie) so why are not considered the talented ones. The world is full of pianist that couldn't bribe a radio station to play their music. I have more respect for artist that are unique & write unique music of their own!!!
@TGIAustin911 I did not have a point to make. Only offering an example where you may have seen Grace Jones before you knew about Lady Gaga. You could have had an 'ohh yea, i did'nt realise it was the same person' moment for all i knew. Turns out you did'nt - it was worth a try. PS I knew about Elvis Presley before Lady Gaga, and he was even dead before i was born. So, i don't see your point.
I don't mean this is any rude manner, but both Women are fucking amazing. GaGa has said multiple times that Grace is a huge inspiration & Grace has stated before that GaGa is relevant in today's society & that she see's parts of herself in GaGa. As far as GaGa as a musician, she's pretty talented as a vocalist & pianist. Look up on youtube "Lady GaGa French TV 2009 Eh Eh, Ragtime, Poker Face" or "Vintage Lady Gaga Live at NYU - Captivated & Electric Kiss". GaGa was trained classically & in jazz
@acardoze29 She has never worn exact outfits as any of those people you just mentioned similar yes and that dosent mean that shes "ripping off" them either, Grace jones, madonna didnt invent avant garde fashion. And if everybody knows that she is an "imitator" why are all these people in fashion and music so excited to work with her when if shes meerly imitating they could just go and find the original. And the fact that you use the word "copycat" tells me your probably 11
So true. These days people want to be famous so bad, they steal and co opt cultures, artists, ideas without even acknowledging who they were inspired by. Kim Khardisian totally do this. She stold the art idea from Grace snd never said inspired by Grace. Now you got a bunch of young air head thinking she did it. I dont respect this people when the plagiarize
No, artists are INSPIRED and they do their own thing, their own creations. Did you hear at least ONE word of what Grace Jones just said in this interview? I don't think so. Then why are you here if you disagree? "Get over it" what the hell are talking about? You don't have one single argument to prove what you are saying. I think it's you that should get over the fact that Lady Gaga is one of the worst copycat in this industry instead of being unpleasant.
key phrase THE MACHINE AROUND THEM. You can say so and so copies so and so, but these are large teams of people controlling what pop stars wear in ads, videos, I mean there are different Magazine clients etc...who will want certain looks on certain artists and then those people have different stylists givign their input. GaGa may have done a lot of looks from Grace Jones but lets remember, GaGa has a whole Haus (team) that works for her and then people outside of that.
@Adrian3gotrip so wearing the EXACT outfits of madonna and grace jones is not call a "rip off" , please, give me a break, everybody knows that lady gaga is an imitator. Not only on fashion, music, videos, concerts even in they way she talks. She is FAKE. Just bz she has stupid 11 years old fans that don't know anything about music doesn't mean that she is ORIGINAL. She is as copycat!
You say that coz u r her fan.Ok,where I live (in Georgia,but not state) u can stop ANYBODY and ask them if they know who Lady Gaga is they will say about her.But when u ask them if they know about GRACE they'll be like ''huh?'' I have many friends in USA or UK or AUSTRALIA or CANADA and when I asked them they had no idea,so everything needs a talent.Even copying :) or just wanting to be as great as ur idol or inspiration is.Shame on U.
@TGIAustin911 Being aqnd entertainer is being an artist.... LEt me give you another analogy. Let's say I came into the Art World as a new painter, and ALL of my paintings resembled the style, and methodologies of Picassso... (cubism all over the place)... My art work would be of no value and I would not respected, regardless of him being my "inspiration". As Gaga and Grace Jones are Performance artists, the same standard of originality should apply. :-)
Grace can do no wrong in my book. She's in that Josephine Baker, cher, and Tina category for me. They invented what you see these girls doing today. Love her!!
Yes 👍 and so has Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor and Dolly Parton. These women are legends.
Yeah Tina Turner. Shit… they would have made a hit in da 80’s, Tina was still thugging too!!!
"what ever it is you feel to do, do it before you go looking outside of yourself" amazing piece of advice. I'll take that to heart as a young artist
Yes , it's very true
Grace Jones is so absolutely awesome.. I have loved her since the 80s.
It's kinda scary how right she was! Lady Gaga has said multiple times now that she never really was into her crazy outfits and was forced to wear them by her team and that shes actually embarrassed by them
She never said that 💀
@@mathisgttr1339 She did multiple times. In early 2016 she always was ashamed whenever someone brought up her past outfits during interviews, she even talked multiple times about how other people planned out her life against her will, in 2015 at Yale university she even talked about how she recently started saying "no" to things she didn't want to do, in 2017 she talked about how producers wanted her to dress in a specific way to sell more records in Five Foot Two, during ASIB interview she also talked about how self conscious she was about herself and always used crazy outfits to distract from herself, hence why she felt very uncomfortable without make up in the movie
@COCO BROWN exactly! A couple weeks ago a hacker hacked a popular celebrity law firm and leaked all of Lady Gaga’s documents and schedules and literally every single move of hers has to be approved by her record company, it’s literally in her contracts. Even the time she sleeps or eats. I also went through some contracts from musicians from the 80s and realized that they had much more freedom back then. The music industry really has become an absolutely evil and vile industry, it’s all about money and nothing else anymore.
@COCO BROWN That really is BRILLIANT! It's like Grace wrote that song about the future of the music industry! But they won't have them sing that, since it's too intellectual for them. Nowadays the more absurd, simple and vulgar a song is, the more money it makes and the more "genius" it is.
@@mertmeh what song is it you're referring to because I listen to a lot of Grace's music?
I totally agree...DO WHAT YOU FEEL BEFORE LOOKING OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF FOR A TRUE CREATION!!!!!!!!!!!...perhaps what you're doing it's been made before...but I think that the personal view & feeling of everything is that true creation!!!!!!!!!!!!
....Grace is one of the most influential visualists of the 20th century...truly mesmerizing to watch and she is to be studied....she is completely authentic in what she wears and on her nothing looks forced...
Its funny how most of the video audiences are mentioning Lady gaga's name, when Grace Jones clearly mentioned madonna ,
Clearly Gaga copied Grace. Open your eyes
@@swankhood Pick a struggle. Gaga copied Madonna or Grace Jones @_@
@@MartFishTank why pick, because you a Troll says so. She copied Elton John too.
@@LucasSouza-zb4rp far from it
She likes Madonna.
Put some GRACE in your face! Pioneer!
I love me some Grace... that same day she told the some people in the crowd to shut the fuck up lol
Red Lox my girl too. Still relevant! I checked your UA-cam channel out thats how I found it. She sure did tell them to shut the f up. Silence when the Queen is speaking. They know better
TONE B HURT I just subscribed to your UA-cam as well
Red Lox it's funny some of my longtime g+ friends just started subscribing to my channel in the past week. Its a good thing. Some of the playlists were made private by mistake, I have to straighten that out. Thanx Red
A friend introduced me to Grace Jones and It was love at first sight! Anyone who owns their presence their sexuality and is hell on a stage.....im in love with them!♡♡♡ I have a song I hope to finish this year but the video I plan to bite from Ms.Grace.....lol....Freaky Fabulous thank u TONE B HURT hugs
Grace, the ultimate queen
All the greatest artists you can name started out young and inspired by those who came before them and imitated what they liked. The reason they became great is that they went beyond imitation and created their own look, sound, style. Grace Jones is in a realm all her own!!!!!
If you didnt grow up watching or hearing this woman, then go back and check her out. Shes amazing
I do not know why but I love watching this over and over and over. I love her message.
Having had been in the modeling career and knowing the stylists is a great advantage for her. It has worked for her from the beginning.
...and they treated her as the ultimate muse....at the highest level and at the deepest level....THEN she became a singer in the new genre of music called....DISCO...and then things got real interesting....and the rest is history....
I always liked her look and style different is better I always said
Whooooaaa that's deep. And this one of the reasons why I love Grace...THE ONE AND ONLY💕
@CotardDelusion Gaga has always said from the beginning that Grace Jones and others like Bowie have inspired her. Philip Treacy makes hats for her. Wearing clothes that designers give her is not copying. Nobody owns image and style. People will forever be influenced by their predecessors undoubtedly. Gaga does not claim originality but rather freedom from the "pop" mold and its clear in the music industry today pretty isnt enough you have to have and edge. stop the hate.
She loved Madonna 💜
Grace is outstanding!
I don't think in this lifetime their will ever be anything even close the brilliance of Grace Jones. I think we all know that, and i love what she's saying in this clip. Ya know i love UA-cam etc, etc, because it allows us access to watch stuff we like, but it has also kept many people from looking within themselves for creativity. Love you Grace ,we always will. you truly are one of the most unique creatures ever created on this earth.
She is so right
What grace do to her own character with all of unique fashion creation
Its all comes from her own self, her mind, her feeling
Thats why she never lost her personality
Some of the BEST advice I have heard thus far, Grace is A 🌟LEGENDARY QUEEN🌟!!!!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
they collaborated, and he was inspired by her, well in his terms "obsessed". without grace and you put someone else with the same styling it just wouldn't be the same, besides you should have a look at pre-goude photos of her before she even meet him, grace is just iconic and a original
i agree with her on finding oneself and establishing who they are and what story they want to tell as an artist
Gaga tries too hard to be different or borderline crazy...Grace Jones actually sells it more genuinely.
Ugh please shut up.. Lady Gaga is way more popular and successful than this Jones or whatever her name is. She is so bitter LOL.
This aged terribly.
@@tomcatonyoutube How come?
@@annsu77 Gaga and Grace Jones are doing absolutely fine as established individual artists. This video did nothing.
She didn't make any reference to Gaga at all ???
@LittleAnahiRBD14
She didn't have to mention GAGA, especially as SOCIETY AS A WHOLE has identified GAGA as a plaigarist of Grace's style. It's so evident, that Grace doesn't have to mention her name, the egregious copying speaks for itself.
@LittleAnahiRBD14
GAGA does not just blindly wear anything these designers tell her to. She has a say and control over the designs and her looks. And the outfits that aren't similar to Grace's are similar to others. She doesn't have her own style; it's nothing more than COMPOSITE OF OTHERS SHE'S "INSPIRED" BY.
@TGIAustin911
Grace isn't off the radar. She has been touring all over the world, specifically in Europe and Asia for the past two decades. This woman can sing in multiple languages, and can do a little opera too (even has done duets with Pavorotti before he died. Many Americans seem to think that just because an entertainer isn't all over American MTV, they're "off the radar" Grace has a loyal cult following that extends beyond the U.S.
She gave good advice .
Lady gaga has originality as much as she has taken inspiration from others
its not about Who's copying who,its about artistry
It was a soundbite. You cannot judge someone on a soundbite. I don't think she forgot about Jean-Paul. She had his son who is a living reminder of him. I also read that they are still friends. Grace was and is a force to be reckoned with.
you cant copy perfection ,only one grace
Compare an artist with others one it's ridiculous.
Gaga talent is authentic and real and she never spoken bad to others artist ,this is the right behaviour that a real and big artist must be have .
Grace and Madonna feeling gelous and In my opinion it does not support their carrers.
Um, Lady Gaga's name didn't even come up once. You're false advertising/
No U are with those pouty lips
Lol we all know that gaga rihanna madonna did get style influence by someone else who wore the looks first. Grace is so influential in fashion industry its a crime shes not recognized more.
Gaga, Madonna, Rihanna all got inspiration from Grace
@@user-qd6im2hp2e Gaga was super open about it.
Grace is the ONLY diva that counts and a real artist. The rest of them Madonna, Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce all look like high school talent show contestants compared to Grace. The only other female vocal artist that I can think of who matches the same level of artistry and talent but in a completely different genre is Kate Bush.
You are not the one to determine who real artists are.
You forgot *NINA HAGEN.*
Grace has always been waaayyy ahead of her time-! It's almost mind blowing!🤯
How she idolizes that man??? She said it herself. Watch your mouth Grace is straight Legend
@LittleAnahiRBD14
You mean to tell me you find it to be quite ironic that her "experimentations" seems to MIRROR damned near everything that Grace Jones wore in the 80's and 90s ( there are even you tube videos that prove this. )
@LittleAnahiRBD14
When GAGA first came out (before she gained much popularity), I acrually like her and her style because it was hers. Then her shock tactics ensued and she took any means necessary to achive that, which mainly included researching the likes of grace jones and copying their avant garde style.
Very stylish..
If Gaga admitted it, then it's inspiration, if she doesn't admit it (which she didn't) then it's plagiarism.
Grace Jones was looked down on when she first started out, people couldn't cope with strong woman that had no fear in being different.
She never gave a shxt hence why i love her for her strength.
❤
She is BOSS. PERIOD
To all the people ripping on gaga first of all she's a very artistic person she's a performance artist she's inspired by grace she's found her way I think the first year aka 2008 witch was the last time grace came out with an album they had a lot of similarities but u have to get that gaga would dress insane and crazy because designers would pay her also her label would force her to be sexy but she didn't want that so she put an artistic spin on that with idk wearing the same clothes as grace THEY ARE DESIGNERS NOT COPYRIGHTED IMAGES
I think Grace should get some of the credit for the Gagas and the Rihannas style. Grace is very underappreciated IMO for her style influence these days.
@@daniella921yes but also she’s not a vocalist she’s a model and performer, calling gaga an empty vessel when she’s gotten way more awards and reached further than grace in only like 13 years is hilarious. I understand style but majority of graces looks were on the runway also
@@Peterrdee so you are a person whi goes by awards??? That's your reply
Just hive grace her flowers lol
@@Peterrdee who says she not a vocalist??
Not even iconic beauty just a beauty!!!
great interview
I know about Grace Jones, she's incredibly cool. I know about Lady Gaga also, and there's no such a thing that made think she copied Jones. Lady Gaga is moved by her own personal artistic principles, and some of the work she's done is about expressing an individual creative mind, also what she does is actually unique and distinctive. Mind what you say guys, if you don't know much about it.
Both are unique, I totally agree.
I would say more influence than copy. Just as GAGA has influenced. As Miss Jones has said she was influenced and exposed to many creative forces in becoming her unique self. Before GAGA there was no one as outrageous, shocking or daring than Grace Jones in music. Along with this she possessed amazing talent and intelligence just as LG. Good observation and comment. Pioneers both!
Her brother is a preacher on a sho called preacher of LA and he said that ga ga have been reaching out to grace who inspired her but grace jones want nothing to do with her. If lady ga ga is admitting her inspiration, why are you taking it away? Its obvious that no one dared to do the things jones did or wore on stage before grace jones
Mario Novizio Oh shut up.
+bklynbobby1 idiot, u really think it was jones who chose what she would wear on the cat walk or how to dress it up. dear me some people really do take it all on board after 20 years to have worked that out. muppet !
I don't mind artists copying, but Grace is right, you have to know what you want to say to the world emotionally and stylistically.
Madonna spent her whole carer flicking from punk to reggae to whatever was fashionable at the time before she finally broke through on pop.
She sold out on any roots she ever had and as a result, she never did anything distinctive as an artist except make money.
I think that's also why Jones was so amazing in movies, really high class and glamourous, while Madonna was complete trash.
I'm guessing you're responding to somebody else. I bought all her albums.
M a d o n n a Ah now I get it - you think I'm accusing her of copying her work from other people. No. You didn't watch the video. If you don't watch the video, you don't understand my comment. Do us both a favor would you?
Ah... yes you're right.
Actually I have issues with Madonna, which I am pleased to share. Madonna and Jones for me, are opposites. They are at existential extremes from one another.
I think of Jones as a performer with something to say and it was her message itself, her vision which pushed her forward to say it, as with, say Blondie, Patti Smith.
Madonna was always obsessed principally by being a star, and she did all the hard work it takes to get there and she would do anything it took, but she never had anything new to offer.
She was forever trying to work out what was fashionable and jump on that train. Her songs were about being in love, about desire about material and sexual freedom.
These were original themes in the 1960s. In the 80s, they were virtually compulsory attitudes. They would have been distinctive coming from a woman in Afghanistan. Women in New York take such freedoms as fairly central.
I mean no-one's completely original, and originality isn't everything. Some of the songs were effective. Like a Virgin was good dance floor. But she didn't write it. Ray of Light is quite good. But I can't imagine it wasn't bought on order from Kate Bush.
The idea that women could be strong was ... not new. The ancient Greeks had strong women in their mythology and you can see that throughout history.
To be fair, by wearing a black bra and singing about wanting money, she did transform contemporary feminism. She redefined it as winning at the male ideal as well as the female ideal. It was no longer about liberation. It was a quest for power on all fronts.
I'm not one to lecture about feminism, but talk to women studied feminism before Madonna turned up. Ask them whether you can liberate yourself from sexual stereotypes by competing inside them... or whether you can conquer men and money without commodifying yourself. This isn't Virginia Wolf you'r looking at. It's Ronald Reagan in a wig and a dress.
Most traditional feminists thought she turned feminism into capitalism. This "Lean In" type feminism empowers privileged white women. It doesn't liberate anybody else. It enslaves them to the corporations those women are working in.
But going back to the music and the women concerned, when I look at Madonna, I see a woman going "Hey - Look at me. I'm strong! Hey look at me. I'm sexy. Hey look at me. I'm in rich and famous and in love ... Look no hands!" It's like she's doing those things as an act to get people's attention.
Grace Jones doesn't care what you think. Nobody would have guessed that what she was doing would work. She did it because it honestly expressed how she felt. I think that' why Jones came across well on screen. Well neither of them could really act. Like Swarzenegger, they are just themselves. But here's the thing - Jones happens to be an interesting person. Madonna is like a 6 year old wearing dresses and posing in the mirror. Her acting made you wonder what kind of child neglect left her with that level of attention seeking behavior.
She was constantly second-guessing. Try punk. Didn't work... Try Reggae... Didn't work. OK what next? She would have done polka if that's what the crowds wanted. Real reggae is about discovering roots. Real punk is about uprooting.
And I think Madonna knows this. It irks her she's a gatecrasher at art's party. In the movie, when she meets the writers of Like A Virgin, and she's absolutely uninterested in how they wrote it. It could be mistaken for magesterial arrogance - "I'm too important to meet mere minions such as these" But the truth is they embarrass her. They remind her of the fact she's trading on other people's talent. She doesn't have it coming from the hip like them.
I mean Jones is a goddamn warrior. She sings for the art. If nobody was interested, she would be writing, romancing and seducing, because she is not getting n touch with her audience, she is getting in touch with her nature. Madonna is moved by marketing. Jones is moved by her muse.
So that's basically it. Jones is in love with life. Madonna, with herself. Jones wants to challenge, Madonna to conform. "You can make money, you can have sex, you can do anything you want" isn't a message, its the American religious mantra.
So your statement, "She inspired millions of people" is back to front She didn't inspire anybody. They inspired her! She's a democratic decision, a customer survey. She told them what they told her to tell them. Where is the communication?
Jones is working from perception, awareness and vision. Madonna is wants to know what other people want her to see. Jones is uncompromising, Madonna aims to be as compromised as possible.
Compare her with other solid female performers of her time - , Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Tracy Chapman, Blondie, Laurie Anderson, KD Laing, Tori Amos... - They all , each and every one of them, developed their own unique style and stuck with it. None of them flirted with any other style than their own peculiar style and none of them tried to work from anything other than where they were at.
Comparing her with all these, I don't really think of Madonna as an artist at all. She's a business woman who sees an angle in appearing as an artist.
To understand artistic integrity requires that you have some. Madonna had a desperate sense of her glamour. Grace had nothing else. If Grace forgot her roots for an instant, they never forgot her. Grace had... Grace.
Just my two cents.
I may be stupid, my children may be stupid, I may not have a brain and if I did kill myself....
Tell me ONE original thing Madonna EVER did..???
you are like dogshit remy haha
it is so distinctive! Gaga's stuff liooks NOTHING like it. Both grace and gaga are amazing! Some people need to just shut up and enjoy their music! :-)
Pull up to my bumper is my song
It's funny to me the way Lady GaGa is like the first ever female pop artist who's name is always either followed by talented or begins with talented. I never heard anybody say the talented Madonna or the talented Grace Jones or the talented Janet Jackson--yet they all wrote & composed & produced their own music as well. I think Lady Gaga gets way too much credit. I don't need to watch vintage GaGa I know she's gifted but she's not alone & she's far from singular in any musical department!!!
@jamesArrondelle That's right because Madonna ripped of Grace Jones, and Marilyn Monroe.
Madonna ripped about everything and everyone....that's her whole career taking and "reinventing "
@chrisb1511
UMMM YES PEOPLE DO OWN FASHION AND STYLE and can sue for it as well. Christian Louboutin STOPPED other low-end retailers from stealing his red-bottom shoe designs... YSL sued Ralph Lauren years ago for copying his women's tuxedo suit concept and the list goes on...
Grace Jones! The Goddess
The copycats should give some credit to inspiring Grace.
@aviationnatiom you are so young GRACE IS A QUEEN THE QUEEN im only 21 But I was raised to know real music and talent. Grace is it she did it before any of these ladies. she was a model, trendsetter, actress (bond girl), great singer wonderful musician she was and still is it. so stop hating and learn about real music hunty
I don't like the woman but I agree with what she said here.
Come on this is click bait - I wanted to check if she said anything suggested by the title of this video but she was very fair and never mentioned Lady Gaga. I admire both - of course Grace is a true original and living art but Lady Gaga has vocal talents and musical artistry that GJ hasn't - both great at what they do!
....exactly....
Bowie and Grace are ORIGINAL. Everything after them is just influence and shock value.
sublime lady
@TGIAustin911 If per chance you have seen the James Bond movie 'a view to kill', you would have come across Grace Jones before Lady Gaga. She plays the main villain.
THANK YOU so much for sharing this
so because some club kids once told grace jones that “madonna was hiding out in the back row of her show” it means it’s true ? lol …madonna wouldn’t have been able to hide in the back of a club at a grace jones show in the 80s even if she tried…
Lady Gaga even tries to talk like Grace jones!! It's unbelievable!!
Wtf...no she doesn't
The way she pauses in her sentences is just like Grace, these white female artistes have zero originality.
Grace didn't invent pauses from talking..did she ? She doesn't have originality....she doesn, but not the way she speaks...Also, Gaga is way more popular than Grace and a better singer, which makes Gaga more original..
the amount of illusion in this comment 😂 Gaga’s one song outsold whole Grace’s career, if she ever had that lol
diable triste just because it outsold doesn't make it better, nor more original. To link popularity to quality is the true illusion.
she is genius no doubt for that.. icon 20 centuries
+sandechoir you are so sad if you think that. give me 1 or more reasons to call her an icon.
every diva or even fashion indrustry copied her style.
+sandechoir you have to be gay
+tony williams i am woman and work for fashion designer..i have learn from gay people. if i gay so whats profit for you.
the queen goddess herself... live me some grace jones.
@TASconfidential All that few copying happend like 2 years ago when Gaga was still new to the music scene,but now she has her own style,she´s unique as a person and in fashion sense!
So much immaturity in the comments....
Spoken from a true artist. I love Grace Jones.
@TASconfidential Gaga has a bunch of outfits that aren´t even a bit similiar to Grace´s! It´s true that some of them are similiar but that´s designers fault not Gaga´s,Gaga just wears the clothes! Maybe Grace inspired her,who knows! Even though she´s only 25 years old she already has her own style and amazing fashion sense!
But Gaga has done some good things in her career as far as work outside of music. I'd love to see if Gaga can stand the test of time and keep preforming and inspiring others and her fans well into her 60s and look just as good if possible.
She will!
She stood!
which accent??? Grace was raised in NY, Jamaica, England and France???!!!
To me it's about how natural it feels. To me Gaga is a fake, I've seen the before and afters and seeing that makes it hard for me to believe her 'born this way' thing so it gives me a MTV intern produced into an 'artist' feeling. To me Grace has a natural ability to pull off her style and music; Gaga looks like she's still struggling to find herself through the changes. Don't hate Gaga her style isn't to my taste nor is her music (seems mediocre to me).
this just goes to show that when ever white people do it, it's cool. Like Souxie and the banshees and Soho , Bo didley and Elvis, Grace jones and lady gaga. that's just how it goes I guess
At least we know the source
Hating white people, I see? Nice.
Gaga is not an original she copies marina and grace jones Been done before !
No, she doesn't.
Let Grace do her thing and GaGa do her thing. GaGa used Grace as an inspiration.
shes absolutely true... now lady gaga has come out with her real art not being manipulated by avantgarde machine.. now lady gaga is just her real self.. i hope grace would be pround of her.
Arvin1996 A2018 Grace Hates her.
I know that even if gaga ever fades away, which she never will, she will never be bitter like her idols.
They have no reason to be. If Gaga ever admitted inspiration( which she doesnt) it would be a different thing but she thought Born This Way was original and got offended by the media calling her out, just like she probably did here with what Grace said. It's only musicly retards who cant see the inspiration and influence and think shes original and the fact she never admitted to it makes it plagiarism.
What's happening with her from tooth?
Do we know who she's talking about?...
You can look up Pre-Madonna tapes (before she blew up) songs like: Stay (demo) Don't You Know, Burning Up (demo) (Take Me) I Want You... The songs were good & before there was anybody to borrow from because back in the days white female artist were not recording songs like those--they were recording songs like "Pat Benetar or Blondie" and she created music from nothing when there was nothing to reference in terms of style. Wrote & composed from nothing yet you never hear "talented" Madonna. Why?
So what she plays a piano that makes you unique these days? How about the fact that if you view those same video's her music sounded very different & dare a say boring until she started borrowing other artist style (Madonna, Janet, Grace, Bowie) so why are not considered the talented ones. The world is full of pianist that couldn't bribe a radio station to play their music. I have more respect for artist that are unique & write unique music of their own!!!
@TGIAustin911 I did not have a point to make. Only offering an example where you may have seen Grace Jones before you knew about Lady Gaga. You could have had an 'ohh yea, i did'nt realise it was the same person' moment for all i knew. Turns out you did'nt - it was worth a try.
PS I knew about Elvis Presley before Lady Gaga, and he was even dead before i was born. So, i don't see your point.
I don't mean this is any rude manner, but both Women are fucking amazing. GaGa has said multiple times that Grace is a huge inspiration & Grace has stated before that GaGa is relevant in today's society & that she see's parts of herself in GaGa. As far as GaGa as a musician, she's pretty talented as a vocalist & pianist. Look up on youtube "Lady GaGa French TV 2009 Eh Eh, Ragtime, Poker Face" or "Vintage Lady Gaga Live at NYU - Captivated & Electric Kiss". GaGa was trained classically & in jazz
@acardoze29 She has never worn exact outfits as any of those people you just mentioned similar yes and that dosent mean that shes "ripping off" them either, Grace jones, madonna didnt invent avant garde fashion. And if everybody knows that she is an "imitator" why are all these people in fashion and music so excited to work with her when if shes meerly imitating they could just go and find the original. And the fact that you use the word "copycat" tells me your probably 11
So true. These days people want to be famous so bad, they steal and co opt cultures, artists, ideas without even acknowledging who they were inspired by. Kim Khardisian totally do this. She stold the art idea from Grace snd never said inspired by Grace. Now you got a bunch of young air head thinking she did it. I dont respect this people when the plagiarize
Lady gaga will never be as great as Grace jones or MADONNA
@TGIAustin911
AND SHE WANTS TO DRESS JUST LIKE GRACE JONES
No, artists are INSPIRED and they do their own thing, their own creations. Did you hear at least ONE word of what Grace Jones just said in this interview? I don't think so. Then why are you here if you disagree?
"Get over it" what the hell are talking about? You don't have one single argument to prove what you are saying. I think it's you that should get over the fact that Lady Gaga is one of the worst copycat in this industry instead of being unpleasant.
@harajukuphantom Everyone doesn't do that and repeating history is never a good thing.
Underground balls, Avant Garde desinger such as Mugler, And jean paul gualtier.
key phrase THE MACHINE AROUND THEM. You can say so and so copies so and so, but these are large teams of people controlling what pop stars wear in ads, videos, I mean there are different Magazine clients etc...who will want certain looks on certain artists and then those people have different stylists givign their input. GaGa may have done a lot of looks from Grace Jones but lets remember, GaGa has a whole Haus (team) that works for her and then people outside of that.
Gaga created that team for herself, she was inspired by Andy Warhol's The Factory.
seriously! why are people making unnecessary drama?
@iconic
Why did you put "supposedly" as if it wasnt true
Totally agree with you ;)
@Adrian3gotrip so wearing the EXACT outfits of madonna and grace jones is not call a "rip off" , please, give me a break, everybody knows that lady gaga is an imitator. Not only on fashion, music, videos, concerts even in they way she talks. She is FAKE. Just bz she has stupid 11 years old fans that don't know anything about music doesn't mean that she is ORIGINAL. She is as copycat!
what is that song played in the beginning?
You say that coz u r her fan.Ok,where I live (in Georgia,but not state) u can stop ANYBODY and ask them if they know who Lady Gaga is they will say about her.But when u ask them if they know about GRACE they'll be like ''huh?'' I have many friends in USA or UK or AUSTRALIA or CANADA and when I asked them they had no idea,so everything needs a talent.Even copying :) or just wanting to be as great as ur idol or inspiration is.Shame on U.
Jean paul goude did not create any fashion, so how did he create androgynous futuristic style when that's been done before ?
@TGIAustin911
Being aqnd entertainer is being an artist.... LEt me give you another analogy. Let's say I came into the Art World as a new painter, and ALL of my paintings resembled the style, and methodologies of Picassso... (cubism all over the place)... My art work would be of no value and I would not respected, regardless of him being my "inspiration". As Gaga and Grace Jones are Performance artists, the same standard of originality should apply. :-)