Before Lady Gaga was the Oscar-winning singer, songwriter and actress we know her as today, she was Stefani Germanotta.
An unassuming 18-year-old student at New York University (NYU), Germanotta studied at the university’s Tisch School of the Arts, playing gigs at local bars around the city before dropping out to pursue her music career on her own.
Then, at the age of 22, Germanotta became Lady Gaga and went on to release six albums, win nine Grammy awards, star in her own Las Vegas residency and create some of the most iconic pop culture moments of the last decade.
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But to some of her NYU classmates, she was an attention seeker who would never be famous. They even went as far to create a Facebook group called ‘Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous’.
Following Gaga’s Oscar for Best Original Song for A Star Is Born’s ‘Shallow’ at the 2019 Academy Awards, images from the troll Facebook group resurfaced on Twitter.
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The likelihood of this being a genuine historical Facebook group are zero.
What a lot of people don't realize about actors. singers, dancers & musicians is that self-promotion is an accepted part of how they remain employed.
When you're using those particular talents YOU are all you have.
You have to protect & take care of your "tools of the trade" - your voice, your body, your talent, your art, skills and your self-belief.
In this case Lady Ga Ga is all of those things - actor, singer, dancer, musician (plus a composer) so that's a lot to take care of, to nurture, refine and protect.
If you don't have a manager, you have to manage yourself so you risk coming off as a bit of a wanker when you talk about your competence in doing the job.
Some of her fellow classmates were feeling mediocre so they hit back with this petty facebook page.
So - who are the wankers now ?