Asked about what she thinks of how Lady Gaga connects with her fans, and it is parallel to the relationship Madonna had with gay fans early on, Madonna told the Advocate: "It seems genuine. It seems natural, and I can see why she has a young gay following."

"I can see that they connect to her kind of not fitting into the conventional norm," Madonna added, doing a parallelism with herself as well. "I mean, she's not Britney Spears. She's not built like a brick shithouse. She seems to have had a challenging upbringing, and so I can see where she would also have that kind of connection, a symbiotic relationship with gay men."