Top er.. Five of the.. er.. Day?

We know we like to keep up a regular Top Ten of the Week (see our brand new one at the right!) but now we're borrowing our completely original format and giving you a Top Five of the Day because we think you have the right to know what ten songs we would LOVE to see mashed-up - the big homo twist is that five are Lady GaGa songs, and five are from... Madonna. This grew from a typical conversation your Shiny & New writers had strolling through a park in Paris last August (sigh!) and we've been having regular wet dreams about it since. We haven't been the first and we won't be the last to continually draw parallels between the pair, but while it is our sincere belief that as long as Madonna continues to perform and create music she will remain the Queen, it is inescapable how close GaGa is to one day taking the crown. And so, in no particular order...

5. "Material Girl vs. Money Honey"
The similarities are obvious - both declare, ironically or not, a pash for cash. We'd love to see GaGa perform the chorus of "Material Girl" as a bridge or something in her live shows, as she throws dollar bills in the air with her face on them. We're not joking.

4. "Human Nature vs. Paper Gangsta"
Not the most obvious combination but we can definitely imagine GaGa screeching about her men not being men(?)ly enough over the dirty beats of "Human Nature". Complete with cornrows and a snazzy little chihuahua.

3. "Into the Groove vs. Just Dance"
Here we can imagine Madonna's youthful and energetic vocals layered over the futuristic - off-topic slightly but since we first heard "Just Dance" in early 2008 we've become slightly lax in our memories of just how new, fresh and different it sounded on first listen - track of GaGa's debut. Both are (or will be in years to come) seen as unquestionably powerful dance anthems. Natch.

2. "Vogue vs. Dance in the Dark"
Okay so you can see this coming - it's all about the name-dropping rap. When "Dance" first leaked, blogs erupted in choruses of "It's Vogue 2009!" "It's better than Vogue!" and "What the fuck is Vogue?" etc. It would be awesome to see Madonna drop in segments of the "Dance" rap in future performances of "Vogue", or equally powerful for GaGa to reference her single biggest influence, whether she admits it or not, with replacing her own rap with the "Vogue" rap as a one-off or something. Sigh. We can dream. Is this article just too fanboy for you?

1. "La Isla Bonita vs. Alejandro"
Okay, okay. This is the biggie. This is the one we would die to hear... or even better, see as a live collaboration. Heads. Would. Ex. Plode. Common lyrical themes - the love and longing for a man of Latino origin, the blissful summery beats and melodies, the feeling in your hips of wanting to grind upon the nearest tanned male... just us? We're not sure entirely how this arrangement would work. But it would. It has to.

So that was the end of our screamingly homo dream sequence. What do you think of our selections? More importantly, what mashups/collaborations would you like to see between the Queen and her pretender?