What did you think of Gaga when she first debuted?

[Customzanotti 1,811]

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I was in elementary school during the the fame (monster) era and i remember being simultaneously impressed and terrified of her, especially of the paparazzi mv and the vmas bleeding/hanging spectacle. She was so intriguing but also very polarizing, everyone around me hated her guts  

[Katherine 1,763]

I thought she was ugly  cause it was my first time using internet and everyone would use that photoshopped pic of her with the big nose and the messy wig  

But overall, I was impressed of how crazy and original she seemed to be  she was my real first favorite artist 

[magicalgaga 783]

I was in elementary also and remember being immensely intrigued as well as ****ing weirded out by her. I loved the feeling of being like "what the hell is she doing" because at that time – and most of my life tbh – people thought of me the same way. That made me feel connected to her. I loved the weirdness because it felt familiar and also exciting. I also remember talking about her publicly with my class mates who were the nastiest people and they were like "but she's like so out there and acts all crazy and ****???" 

[Ryusei 61,110]

I didn't think much of her I just liked when Just Dance or Poker Face were on the radio but I wasn't like having an instant stan moment. That came later when I saw the fame monster music videos and was mindblown.

[not Chromatica 5,393]

9 minutes ago, Customzanotti said:

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I was in elementary school during the the fame (monster) era and i remember being simultaneously impressed and terrified of her, especially of the paparazzi mv and the vmas bleeding/hanging spectacle. She was so intriguing but also very polarizing, everyone around me hated her guts  

bich, me too! the fuk!?

[Blown Away 5,218]

I hated Just Dance and constantly called her Lady CaCa  Then radio started playing the Glam as You Remix instead of the regular version, which made me like the song. When Poker Face was released I hated it as well, I though she sounded like a man. A few weeks later song grew on me and I was sold.

[FentyGa 14,340]

i was 5 and i heard just dance on the radio on my way home from school

from some reason i pictured her having a brown pixie cut and wearing a magenta, floor-length gown. with white adidas trainers. who knows why.

but obviously i began stanning and i’ve stanned ever since 

[BleepBloop 10,316]

I was nine/eight and I was instantly obsessed with her.

[tomsches 17,395]

I thought she was another one-hit wonder like that Mr. Saxobeat girl and the name Lady Gaga disgusted me because it reminded me of poo. 

[Ariana Grindr 3,173]

I was walking through my high school quad and I remember there was some sort of lunch activity going on. Just Dance was playing and the guy a was walking with said that it was a song by a new artist called “lady gaga”. I thought it was it good song. I never really payed much attention to the radio so then once the 2009 Vma paparazzi performance happened I had forgotten about her. I remember watching the performance and omfg was I so mind blown and polarized by her. I instantly became obsessed. I remember I was so in shock about how she was actually singing live and dancing and played the piano and then she hung herself bleeding to death and omg the feels!!

[dynamite 58,987]

I heard JD and PF and thought they were generic, crap songs and hated her and thought she was weird. 

I gave her a chance during TFM and warmed to her then really loved her when BTW come out. 

I must repent!

[Customzanotti 1,811]

9 minutes ago, highlyreductive said:

bich, me too! the fuk!?

We deserve a toast

[Lemondeduerl 3,239]

I thought she was crazy and weird but interesting.

[not Chromatica 5,393]

I started reading abt her in BRAVO magazine after Just Dance came out and at first I thought she was cool, but nothing more. But then the craze started and soon I found myself stanning. I was mostly in awe. I remember hearing Paparazzi for the first time (it was live, AOL Sessions if I'm correct) and I just remember thinking I've never heard a song like that in my life. I also introduced my elementary school to Gaga so there's that.  She was my bulletproof beard - whenever someone called me gay for liking her, I was like "Well she's half-naked all the time, duuuh!". Ooh chile... And of course, I believed all the sh!t she was saying during the TF/M eras. My 12yo ass ate up all of it.

[Ally Campana 15,284]

I’ve always liked her music. Just Dance, Eh Eh, Poker Face, LoveGame were all really popular and huge back then. I was around 8. I thought she was really unique and the funny thing is, I never thought of her as ‘weird’. I actually thought she was really cool and brave to be able to wear and do whatever the fck she wanted to do/wear.

But the ‘stan’ part came with Paparazzi. Everyone had heard the song except me. And the snippets of the video and VMA performance I saw on commercials really intrigued me.The internet wasn’t a big thing back then here. Never got a chance to listen to the song on TV. So I scrapped my coins together, went to a cyber cafe and listened to Paparazzi on YouTube, both the video and VMA performance. I became and fan.

Then came Bad Romance, I was devoted to her and became a stan. And never looked back. Never will. Forever my #1. Lady Gaga.