Posted by Adam

Monday June 21, 2010

BARACK Obama thinks Lady GaGa‘s a copycat — according to Cyndi Lauper!

Speaking to New York magazine, the True Colors hitmaker revealed what she said to Obama when she was invited to the White House this year for the signing of the Hate Crimes Bill.

“That was awesome,” she said. “I said, ‘So I heard you opened for GaGa [at the Human Rights Campaign Fund gala a few nights prior]. How was it?’ He smiled and said, ‘She stole all your moves. You’re the original.’

Lauper — who toured with the Poker Face singer promoting Mac Viva Glam lipstick and AIDS awareness — says she sees herself in GaGa.

“GaGa does performance art, but she does sculpture; I do performance art and I paint myself,” she said. “When I saw her, I said, ‘Yeah, right’. You should never listen to people who say tone it down. I never painted myself so people would look at me; I did it because when I looked in the mirror, it made me feel alive.

“When I have color on my hair, I wake up — I can think, I can see. And I can’t understand spending all that time painting your hair and not making it look like a flower. I like tulips a lot. When spring comes and you see tulips all over the city, it’s too much for me. Eventually, I’m going to have to get the paintbrush out.”

Cyndi Lauper

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