People At Lady Gaga’s University Made A “Shame Group” About Her For Trying To Be Famous

One of the strongest messages ‘A Star is Born’  teaches us is the fact that literally, nobody can become great without first suffering through their fair share of adversity.

And someone who can 100% vouch for this message is actually one of the stars of A Star Is Born herself… Lady Gaga. You see, way back when Lady Gaga was just starting out her illustrious career, her fellow peers at University, who from now on I shall now be referring to as haters, created a Facebook group which they named “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.”  Yeah… seriously.

How do we know this? Well, recently, the people of the internet discovered the little secret of this petty, little (and I mean little) community. And we’ve immediately fallen in love with the whole irony of it.

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Another woman, a woman by the name of Lauren Bohn, was actually a freshman at NYC when she uncovered the group. She then brought it to media’s attention back in 2016 along with a powerful Facebook post:

“When I was a freshman at NYU and Facebook was only a year old and people created/joined groups like “I have dimples, f*** me” and “Fake ID, please!…

…I remember coming across a Facebook group that broke my heart.”

“It’s name was: “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.” The page housed pictures of a pretty Norah Jones-esque young 18-year-old NYU student who sang and played piano at local bars. The group was peppered with comments, sharp as porcupine needles, vilifying the aspiring musician for being an “attention-whore.” Scores asked: “Who does she think she is?” I also remember one dude posting a flyer for one of her upcoming gigs at a local village bar. He had clearly stomped on the flyer, an outline of his muddy sole [soul] struggling to eclipse her name…”

“…I couldn’t shake the raw feeling of filth while scrolling down that Facebook page.”

“but I pretty much — and quickly — forgot about that group and that girl with the intense raven eyes. Until about five years later. I was on an Amtrak train from NYC to Philly, reading a Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Magazine profile on Lady Gaga. I floated somewhat mindlessly through the piece until I got to the first sentence of the second graf:

“Before the meeting, I assumed that someone with a stage name like “Lady” (her given name is Stefani Joanne Germanotta) was going to be a bit standoffish…” HOLY S**T, I screamed to an empty car (Those who hang with me will know that I actually shrieked). LADY GAGA IS STEFANI GERMANOTTA? STEFANI IS LADY GAGA? I was overcome with a dizzying emotional cocktail of stage-mom-at-a-beauty-pageant and nerd-revenge triumph. But also shame. Shame that I never wrote on that group…”

“…Shame that I never defended the girl with the intense raven eyes,

— the girl whose brave flyers were stomped on, probably somewhere near my dorm. But again, I soon forgot about that revelation and that feeling. Feelings. They’re so fleeting. Even more so, revelations. We need to constantly re-discover them every damn day. Like last week, when I woke up to this meme. I saw the muddy sole eclipsing her name. The eye-rolls. The cowardly virtual-giggles. The “Who does she think she is?”.”

“I’ve got a lot of feelings, but the easiest one to articulate: gratitude

Stefani, thank you. Thank you for always thinking you’re a superstar, for using your cracks to let the light come out more brightly. Humans, let’s follow suit.”

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As awful as this is, Lady Gaga’s college experience wasn’t the first time she experienced suffering due to severe bullying. It was actually when her parents first enrolled her at Convent of Sacred Heart, which is an Upper East Side Catholic private school, where she got her first taste of how inexplicably cruel kids could truly be. And since that moment, it never stopped.

“I used to do these really big Evita brows,” Gaga told Rolling Stone back in 2011.

“I used to self-tan, and I had this really intense tan in school, and people would say, ‘Why the fuck are you so orange, why do you do your hair that way, are you a dyke? Why do you have to look like that for school?’ I used to be called a slut, be called this, be called that. I didn’t even want to go to school sometimes.”

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Well, as it turns out, what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger because, despite ALL her naysayers, she has clearly always had an insurmountable drive.

At the age of 11, she began her voice lessons with Don Lawrence (who is Christina Aguilera’s singing coach, FYI) and who she then continued with even as her career began to take off. In addition to singing, she also took the time to learn how to play classical piano as well as acting classes – both significant skills which would eventually lead to her pivotal Oscar moment of 2019.

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While focused on her music career, she enrolled at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, however, having always been a risk-taker, Gaga soon dropped out not long after, due to being eager to start her real-world musician experience.

“I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find and ate shit until somebody would listen,” she told New York Magazine.

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Obviously, Lady Gaga was known for her more audacious, out-there looks early on in her career. Some of her most memorable looks involved giant sunglasses and crazy meat dresses – her music foundation carried through right into her pop music.

“I was classically trained as a pianist and that innately teaches you how to write a pop song,” Gaga told the Telegraph.

“Because when you learn Bach inversions, it has the same sort of modulations between the chords. It’s all about tension and release.”

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Gaga actually thought she’d gotten her big break at the age of 19 when Def Jam records signed her – alas, it wasn’t meant to be. A mere 3 months into that deal the label told her that she “just wasn’t for them”. Despite this, however, she remained determined. In 2008 Gaga’s boyfriend at the time, Rob Fusari, brought Gaga herself to Interscope records not as a singer, but as a songwriter and so from there – a star was literally born.

She ended up writing hits for major artists at the time such as Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls and even Britney freakin’ Spears! While at this label Gaga recorded a reference vocal for one of her songs the stars aligned and, believe it or not, Akon heard the demo and ended up signing her.

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And so, through all the let-downs, the bullies, and countless rejections Gaga has now become a renowned singer and actress. To this day she has been nominated for 24 Grammys and actually won 9 of them. In 2018 she made her grand acting debut in A Star Is Born and won an (extremely well-deserved) Oscar for her billboard topping hit and soundtrack song, “Shallow”.

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During her Oscars acceptance speech she had some inspirational words for ALL of the struggling artists out there who identify with her:

“If you are at home, and you’re sitting on your couch and you’re watching this right now, all I have to say is that this is hard work. I’ve worked hard for a long time, and it’s not about, you know…it’s not about winning. But what it’s about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it. There’s a discipline for passion. And it’s not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or you’re beaten up. It’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.”

Absolutely inspirational. You go Gaga! And remember folks – never let those haters bring you down, no matter who you are! x

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