Lady Gaga reacts to 'you will never be famous' Facebook group: 'Can't give up' (original) (raw)

Lady Gaga responds to college peers' viral Facebook group predicting she'd never be famous: 'You can't give up'

Gaga reacted to a TikTok post highlighting the infamous Facebook group titled "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous."

Published on September 12, 2024 01:25PM EDT

As she prepares to release what could be the biggest blockbuster of her acting career, pop star Lady Gaga has responded to a shady, years-old Facebook group made by her college peers who predicted she'd never be famous.

Gaga posted a comment Wednesday under a TikTok video that highlighted the group, titled "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous," which her fans have regularly posted about over the years ever since she first reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with her debut single, "Just Dance," in January 2009.

"Some people I went to college w made this way back when," the 38-year-old said of the group, which bears her government name in its title. "This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down—gotta keep going."

Lady Gaga.

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Gaga briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before withdrawing in 2005 to pursue a career in music and acting. Before she became a mainstream singer-songwriter, she had a one-episode gig on the MTV reality prank series Boiling Points, and landed a small role as an extra on the famed HBO series The Sopranos.

"When I look back on that scene I can see exactly what I did wrong in that scene," Gaga previously told Entertainment Weekly of her Sopranos acting debut, which saw her play a rowdy teenager in a shot by a swimming pool. "I didn't know how to listen in a scene! I was supposed to laugh, and it was sort of like, cue, laugh.... I see it and I go, 'oh, that's not a real laugh!'"

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In addition to her music career — which, after the release of her Bruno Mars duet "Die With a Smile" in August, will expand with the launch of her seventh solo studio album in February 2025 — Gaga will star as DC Comics villainess Harley Quinn opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux, director Todd Phillips' sequel to 2019's Oscar-winning drama Joker.

The big-budget Warner Bros. release lands four years after Phoenix won Best Actor at the 2020 Oscars for his lead performance. Gaga joined the film in 2022, following an Academy Award victory of her own for co-writing "Shallow," the signature A Star Is Born song she performed with Bradley Cooper — who also produced the first Joker film — in the director-star's 2018 drama.

See Gaga's response to the Facebook group on TikTok.