In her 20/20 interview, Madonna opens up about the controversy in which Lady Gaga borrowed Madonna’s 1989 hit “Express Yourself” to create the 2011 chart-topping single “Born This Way.” Hit the jump to see what she had to say about the whole situation!

Wendy L.

RadarOnline:

“When I heard it on the radio …I said that sounds very familiar,” Madonna tells ABC News in a 20/20 chat scheduled to air Friday. “It felt reductive.”

(The definition of “Reductive” — Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, esp. one viewed as crude.)

Madonna said she thinks Gaga — also a New York-born pop star with socially-influenced songs and a huge following in the LGBT community — “references me a lot in her work.

“And sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well done.”

She added Lady Gaga mimics her in “taking something that was in the Zeitgeist, you know, 20 years ago and turning it inside out and reinterpreting it.”

“There’s a lot of ways to look at it. I can’t really be annoyed by it …because, obviously, I’ve influenced her.”

As for Gaga, she spoke of the similarities last year saying she’s “the hugest fan personally and professionally. The good news is that I got an e-mail from her people and her, sending me their love and complete support on behalf of the single. And if the queen says it shall be, then it shall be.”

Full interview airs on ABC Friday evening at 9/8c.