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Lady Gaga weighs in on the silly Bette Midler mermaid controversy: “I had no idea that she did that.”

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http://www.hotmommagossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lady-gaga-mermaid-300x300.jpgSo Lady Gaga performed as a mermaid in a wheelchair in Australia and it didn’t go over well with Bette Midler who, everyone in the world knows, originated this more than 30 years ago.

Everyone but Gaga it seems.

“I had no idea that she did that and I’m a huge Bette Midler fan,” she told Billy Bush this week. “… But I do now and I think it’s great. Obviously I feel connected to women in theater and women from the past…Maybe we’re just cut from the same cloth. I couldn’t hop around in that tail so I just stuck myself in a wheelchair.”

The Divine Miss M decided to publicly scold Gaga via Twitter: “I’m not sure @ladygaga knows that I’ve performed my mermaid in a wheelchair for millions of people — and many of them are still alive…..”

And this tweet: “Dear @ladygaga if you think a mermaid in a wheelchair seems familiar-it’s because it is!You can see it on youtube 24/7-with ME performing it”

Then there was this one: “Dear @ladygaga Ive been doing singing mermaid in a wheelchair since 1980-You can keep the meat dress and the firecracker tits-mermaid’s mine”

In her interview with Bush, it’s clear that Gaga didn’t want to add fuel to the fire: “All I’ll say is that I… admire her and find her to be one of the most brilliant and incredible performers, so that’s all I’ll say. Maybe she was just joking too. She’s funny. Who knows?”

Bette tweeted again a little while ago saying: Gaga, what got you where you are: your wonderful voice, ability on piano…and writing great hooky tunes that the whole world wants to dance to, will never let you down.The rest is icing.Treat it as such

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  1. There’s really no reponse to this one other than Bette looked a whole lot better?

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