Dance sensation LADY GAGA is fascinated by troubled singer AMY WINEHOUSE - insisting even the star's most shambolic performances are mesmerising.
The singer, who recently topped the charts in the U.S. and the U.K. with her Just Dance track, admits she is a perfectionist on tour and can't stand it when her voice lets her down after numerous gigs.
But the star gets over her vocal lapses by watching footage of Winehouse in action, and is adamant the Rehab hitmaker's notoriously shaky performances are what makes her an icon.
She says, "Amy is a real artist. I get frustrated when I tour so much that my voice is messed up.
"But I always say to myself that I watch performances from Amy where I swear she didn't hit a note, and she was shot and shot deep on something, but I can't take my eyes off that beautiful girl. There's something about her that's so honest.
"That was what the Seventies and Eighties were about, and what women were about then, and that's why legends were created. It wasn't about manicures."