Do you think Lady Gaga has a lot of natural talent?

I am a 36 year old guy who plays guitar, writes songs, and sings. But I don't do it professionally. I don't want to do it professionally. I just get together with other musicians and jam. Sometimes I see people type comments about Gaga such as, "She is so talented!" But I couldn't disagree more. There are two types of musicians- those who don't have much talent for music but they work extremely hard and become successful and those who do have a strong natural talent for music. I would definitely have to put Gaga in the first category. She is very ambitious and works extremely hard and this has brought her success. But as a musician, she is about as talented as Madonna, which means of course that she doesn't have much natural talent. When it comes to music, she is kind of decent at everything but not extremely skilled at any one thing, if that makes any sense. Her songs are somewhat poorly written and when she writes songs she heavily relies on the song structure of other artists (in other words, she borrows hooks and melodies), her fashion sense, style, and stage act is borrowed from other artists, and she is probably an average singer and piano player at best. She kind of reminds me of an average lounge singer. But her ambition is what brought her to the top.