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10 UNORIGINAL Copy Cats of Famous People

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Lady Gaga’s Madonna comparisons anchor TheThings’ rundown of Hollywood’s biggest style copycats.

TheThings Celebrity’s June 2016 video feature, “10 Celebs Inspired By Other Famous People,” lines up photographic comparisons showing how some of pop’s biggest names built their signature looks by borrowing heavily from the stars who came before them. The video, published on-site under the blunter title “10 UNORIGINAL Copy Cats of Famous People,” walks through stage outfits, poses, haircuts and beauty routines side by side to make its case. It’s less an accusation than an observation: imitation, the video argues, has quietly powered a lot of pop stardom.

• Lady Gaga’s stage costumes, poses and choreography draw repeated comparisons to Madonna, echoing the long-running debate over her 2011 single “Born This Way” and its similarities to Madonna’s 1989 hit “Express Yourself” — a comparison Madonna herself addressed publicly in 2015.
• Miley Cyrus’s bleached, cropped haircut and punk-leaning wardrobe marked a sharp break from her Disney-era image, drawing parallels to earlier rock and pop “wild child” performers.
• Kylie Jenner’s evolving hair and beauty choices track closely behind those of her older sister, Kim Kardashian, with the two frequently photographed in near-identical outfits.

Gaga’s Madonna Problem

No name comes up more in the video than Lady Gaga’s. The feature lays her performance stills next to Madonna’s — matching poses, matching stagecraft, matching sense of provocation — and argues the resemblance goes well beyond coincidence. That argument had already been made loudly in the press years earlier, when Gaga’s 2011 single “Born This Way” landed and listeners immediately flagged its melodic and structural similarities to Madonna’s 1989 track “Express Yourself.”

Madonna herself weighed in on the comparison in 2015, describing “Born This Way” as feeling like a blatant homage to her own song. The video doesn’t stop at Madonna, either — it points to stretches of Gaga’s early career that echo Christina Aguilera’s vocal theatrics and Paris Hilton’s tabloid-ready persona, suggesting Gaga’s “original” image was assembled from several borrowed parts rather than built from scratch.

Madonna said in 2015 that “Born This Way” felt like a blatant homage to “Express Yourself” — a comparison that had trailed Gaga since the single dropped in 2011.

Miley’s Reinvention

The video’s next stop is Miley Cyrus, whose transformation from Disney Channel star to bleached-blonde provocateur gets framed as a costume change borrowed from rock’s wild-child playbook. The cropped, platinum haircut, the punk styling, the deliberately unruly on-stage behavior — the feature lines these up against earlier pop and rock rebels to argue Cyrus’s reinvention followed a well-worn template rather than inventing a new one.

It’s a comparison that fits neatly alongside the kind of image-overhaul stories that dominate pop culture coverage — similar in spirit to the reinventions covered in pieces like Musicians That Are Nothing Like They Seem, where public personas rarely match the person underneath.

The Kardashian-Jenner Copy Machine

Family dynamics get their own segment in the video, with Kylie Jenner singled out as the clearest case of a younger sibling lifting an older one’s playbook. The feature points to matching outfits, matching hair colors and matching beauty trademarks between Kylie and Kim Kardashian, timed so that Kylie’s version consistently follows Kim’s rather than the other way around.

The video treats this less as a scandal than as a pattern baked into how fame spreads inside families — a theme that shows up elsewhere in celebrity coverage of look-alike pairings, including the kind catalogued in Celebrity Doppelgängers Who Look Freakishly Alike.

Beyond the Gaga, Cyrus and Kardashian-Jenner examples, the full ten-name list runs through additional pairings — including Rita Ora, Rihanna and Blac Chyna — plus a bonus entry, each framed as evidence that a signature “look” in pop culture is often assembled from someone else’s blueprint rather than invented outright.