Lady Gaga is an interesting case. She's the worldwide queen of prefab music at the moment. Every artist is influenced of course, but in her case almost everything feels purposely assembled from earlier sources of pop culture - her songs, her videos, her looks, her attitude, her robotic dance moves (thanks to the enormous popularity of the Jackson clan and Madonna decades later almost everything in mainstream music choreography seems still seems to be "Thriller", "Rhythm Nation 1814" and "Like A Prayer").
I think Gaga has talent, she seems to be a decent musician and a great performer and I like her personality, but only time will tell if she decides to stay another modern copy/paste music-worker who's satisfied with the current position as the world's leading music industry cash-cow or if she's willing to develop an own profile.
