As if Lady Gaga didn’t have enough to be proud of already in recent years, there is one more thing that just might put her over that precipice into full out giddy-headed full-of-herself-ness (if I was her, anyway 
). It turns out that Michael Jackson, probably the most cited inspiration for other pop acts today, was a huge fan of hers, says Travis Payne, Michael Jackson’s choreographer.
In a recent interview, Travis was asked about what artists Michael Jackson was interested in colloborating with before his death in June, to which he replied that he had suggested various people to Michael that they both thought were cool. However, Michael himself told Travis that he’d love to work with Lady Gaga saying, “You gotta get into her. She’s good.” Travis then said, “so, I started listening to her music more and going on YouTube and looking at her performances, and I was like, ‘He’s right.’ “
Check out the interview below:
Many people think that Lady Gaga is nothing but a gimmick who compensates for a lack of talent with the crazy costumes and performance theatrics. But what many people do not know is that Lady Gaga, just like Michael, was gifted even as a child. To provide a little background, she learned to play the piano by age 4 and wrote her first ballad at age 13. At 14, she played open mike nights at New York clubs by night and at age 17, she was one of 20 kids in the world to get early admission to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. By 20, she was signed to Interscope and was writing songs for other artists such as the Pussycat Dolls, all this before she ever released her first album.
Lady Gaga is not someone who has lucked upon pop success by virtue of being beautiful, she is one of the few contemporary pop artists who combines raw talent with hard work and persistence to be where she is today.
Even at 50, Michael Jackson still had a good ear for modern pop music 
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