Before 'The Fame': Rare Vintage Lady Gaga Footage Surfaces
There is perhaps no more polarizing performer in pop today than Lady Gaga, aka the artist formerly known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Some people think she's just an attention-seeking weirdo. Some think she's a no-talent gimmick. Other detractors think she's actually a man. And then others, like myself, think she's just flat-out awesome.
Well, recently some January 2006 footage of the freaky-deaky pop diva--or, more accurately, of "Stefani"--popped up online, in which she appears pre-Fame sporting her natural brunette hair and relatively normal clothes (no unitard, no red lace face mask, no zippered eyepatch, no hairbow made out of actual hair) and belting out a very '90s-ish, Meredith Brooks/Alanis Morrisette-style (but perhaps prophetically titled) piano rocker called "Hollywood."
While the rare vintage clip bears precious little similarity visually or sonically to Stefani's spacewoman Lady Gaga persona (kudos to Stefani/Gaga for pulling off a massive makeover that even her obvious predecessor Madonna could never fathom), it does make it obvious that Lady Gaga has always been a) attractive, b) talented, c) charismatic, and d) female. Case closed.
But who would've guessed then that only three years later, this unassuming open-mic singer-songwriter type would be hanging from a chandelier above the MTV Video Music Awards stage, smeared in fake blood and glitter?
she tries way too hard and all her outfits are just plain retarded...
although her songs are cool
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