Alice Cooper: "If I were Lady Gaga, I'd make a really hard rock record"

Alice Cooper was so impressed with Lady Gaga's versatility as an artist that he thinks she should make a hard rock album now.

In a new interview, the rock legend said: "She has developed into something really unique. I mean, she created this character named Gaga, she exploited it on every level, made it work. And the songs were good, that was the deal, she wrote her own songs. And then she performed them and she didn't give up on it."

"Then she gets on the Oscars, and does Julie Andrews totally straight," he continued. "When I saw that, I went, 'She just went to another level.' She just went to a Streisand sort of level, where she can still do the insane Lady Gaga, but she can also do this now. She's kinda turned into a butterfly. But you gotta like that, that's a real talented person right there."

Cooper added: "The record with Tony Bennett, who would've thought of that? I mean, how wild is that? Now, if I was her, I would make a really hard rock record right now."

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