Earlier than Gaga Was Gaga: A Younger Stefani Germanotta in 5 Memorable Performances

In case you weren’t in center college throughout the second Bush administration, let me refresh you: MTV’s Boiling Factors was a present that put celebrities in hyper-stressful conditions to see how lengthy they’d final. In a Season 3 episode, Gaga—then nonetheless two years away from releasing her debut studio album—in the end misplaced her cool on the considered consuming a trash-covered meal at a New York Metropolis restaurant, which, I need to say, is sort of truthful.

2006: Dwell musical efficiency with the Stefani Germanotta Band on the Bitter Finish in New York Metropolis

The artist now know as Girl Gaga’s supply of the phrases “Hey, guys…WHAT’S UP?” on this video will probably stay with me till the tip of my days. Again within the early aughts, she was identified for performing recurrently at downtown New York Metropolis fixtures together with the Bitter Finish and the Reducing Room, and in the event you went to NYU at any level round 2006, you in all probability noticed her carry out with out realizing it. (I, after all, am seething with jealousy.)