 
Long story short: Weird Al Yankovic wrote a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” for his upcoming album.
He sent it to the Gaga people. They politely declined letting him put it on his CD.
Then he released this online. Lady Gaga then says, ‘Heck yeah, do it!’ (she’s no dummy… you haven’t truly arrived until you’ve been parodied by Weird Al.)
Turns out, apparently the Gaga person who said she wasn’t interested never played it for her in the first place.
That was truly the short version. Here’s the parody, “I Perform This Way.” It’s gotten more then 800 thousand hits in just a day.