Lady Gaga says she struck up a friendship with Madonna and her teen daughter Lourdes — and might be hoping to work with the Queen of Pop in the near future.

“Madonna is great. And I guess I could say we are friends. I love her daughter Lourdes. She is such a lovely young girl. She came to my show with her mom and we got along famously. We got along fine and we did the skit together on SNL and helped the writers. So who knows?”

She also told Grazia Australia
“I love her, she’s always been an idol of mine and she’s been so nice to me - I think I can say now that we’re friends, which feels a bit weird”.

“Madonna and I have been friends for almost three decades — dear friends. Our children have had play dates, and we will always be friends. We are both creative minds,” she says, adding that she hopes to work with her again.

About 140 villagers are demanding more money for land the government has leased to Madonna’s charity — Raising Malawi — for 99 years.

District Commissioner for Lilongwe Charles Kalemba, other senior government officials and Raising Malawi failed to reach an agreement in talks with representatives of the villagers on Thursday in a bid to resolve the dispute.

“If we cannot agree on this and if you cannot understand that this is government land, then I will have no choice but tell police to arrest you people for blocking development work on the site.” Kalemba told the village chief, Chinkhota.

The Raising Malawi Academy for Girls — in Chinkhota village about 15 km (10 miles) outside the capital Lilongwe — is expected to be completed in two years and will admit 500 girls from the small southern African country’s 28 districts. The construction is expected to cost $15 million.

“We are protesting because we feel government and Raising Malawi have not been fair … earlier agreements about how much they were supposed to pay us have been scrapped and now we are being told the land does not belong to us. The construction of this school will be affected if these problems are not resolved, my people are not given enough money for them to buy farm land somewhere else and continue their lives.”
” Chinkhota told Reuters after the meeting.

Ministry of Lands senior official Nector Mhura said compensation for the land was based on fair market prices.

Just Jared: Glee recently got the rights to use Madonna’s entire catalog of music. Is there a song of hers you’d like to perform?

Mark Salling: I’ve been dreaming of singing Madonna since I was a little girl. (laughs) So this was a really big thing! I would say, what’s one of her songs? I mean. I’m a dude I don’t even know. (laughs)

Ozap: On your MySpace you mentioned Madonna as an influence, but you write ‘in her early years’. Why is that?
La Roux: Because what she did since the 90’s is shitty (laughs)! Her last song what is it… 4 seconds? 4 Minutes, I just don’t like it.

Ozap: Still, she’s an inspiration for many artists…
La Roux: She is. I was about to say “I”, but I meant “I had” the utmost respect for her, but she should have stopped after Ray of Light!

Ozap: Ray of Light was her big comeback…
La Roux: Yeah well, she should have stopped with Music, but I didn’t like Ray of Light, it was too 90’s for me.

Ozap: But you were 10 when it came out…
La Roux: Yes and I hated this album, at the time, and I still hate it (laughs). No she’s brilliant, she’s a legend, I’m not minimizing what she did ! But I’m not gonna lie and pretend I absolutely love everything she ever did. There no such artist for me. David Bowie is my favorite artist of all time, but still I didn’t like Ziggy Stardust, even though it’s his most successful record. Same for me. Many people might hate my album, but I don’t care.

Ozap: You seem very pessimistic…
La Roux: I kinda am. About Madonna, I really love what she did in the 80’s. Very synthetic music. I don’t like ‘Music’, even though I think it was a good album. And she’s one of the rare artists who are making music for what 30 years? And she has been successful for 30 years! I give her props for that. She’s also a fucking brilliant businesswoman. For me, she’s more about the business than the music, these past years. And to be honest, I wouldn’t walk in a leotard at my age. Seeing someone doing it at her age isn’t really appealing to me. She’s got a great body, but I think it’s time for to retire nicely.