Pick one Lady Gaga Memory from Each Year

[Freezie03 957]

I thought it would be interesting to see a list of at least one memory relating to Lady Gaga for each year you were a fan of her. And try not to be something vague like "She released ARTPOP", try to make it more specific or personal 

I'll start as an example:

2012: Literally screaming in my house as my friends stared at me when my Mom got me tickets to the Born This Way Ball (ended up getting cancelled )

2013: Crying to my parents asking why kids at school were bullying me for liking Lady Gaga and ARTPOP

2014: Literally crying at the release of the G.U.Y. video because it had Minecraft in it and I was the weird Minecraft kid at school

2015: Feeling like a bad bitch walking into school the morning after the Oscar's performance

2016: Embarrassing myself on the bus when someone said "name a Lady Gaga song" and I started singing A-YO really loud because it had just got released the previous day

2017: Fantasizing about what the A Star Is Born movie was gonna be like based on the pictures on set that were released 

2018: Running into the movie theater at top speeds shouting "LADY GAGA!!" the day A Star Is Born came out

2019: Clowning on the LG6 Discussion thread, especially when I thought that the Met Gala 2019 was the sign of a new era 

2020: Binging every Lady Gaga Performance and interview to get me through the boredom of the pandemic

2021: Going to five different stores trying to find the Chromatica oreos

 

Submit yours I wanna hear some funny stories 

[Moonlight on Water 13,773]

2009: discovered poker face on myspace

2010: constantly listening to paparazzi through flipnote hatena on my dsi

2011: born this way farmville unicorn. loved that thing

2012: discovered bad romance through joker and harley, so I'm genuinely happy that everything's gone full circle

2013: nothing

2014: nothing

2015: made fun of for liking gaga so i stopped listening to her to fit in

2016: friend was a superfan of gaga and made me listen to and watch all of the mvs, then wouldn't stop talking about the joanne leak. man i loved her

2017: thought gaga was jezebel/christian era

2018: became an actual fan. I remember deciding to not kill myself on my birhday because she released the I'll never love again mv right when i was about to do it. Other favorite moment was going to the theatre to see ASIB

2019: constantly streaming ARTPOP the song while going through an existential crisis

2020: chromatica release day. Me and some friends watched gaga stuff literally all day. other memory would be the vmas with all of her outfits

2021: house of gucci trailer release

2022: my first gaga concert

[thierryrreiht 20,677]

3 minutes ago, Lady JarJar said:

2013: nothing

2014: nothing

You:

 

[AURAOFSHEISSE 6,515]

2011: I watched the movie Puss in boots everyday and skipped to the last scene just for Americano, I was 7 and I had no idea who lady Gaga but I was obsessed with that song  so actually American was the first Gaga song I heard

2015: I found out who Lady Gaga was and started showing my sibling pics of her crazy fabulous outfits, but I still wasn’t listening to her music 

2016: I was 12 and got my first phone started listening to her essential hits on Spotify listened to BTW album a lot.

2018: Getting obsessed with TFM and Joanne,BTW

2019: listening to ARTPOP on repeat on the swing outside my house, obsessed at this point

2022: Bought tickets for TCB Dallas and Houston and had the time of my life baby

[Moonlight on Water 13,773]

1 minute ago, thierryrreiht said:

You:

 

LITERALLY

[Freezie03 957]

1 minute ago, AUARAOFSHEISSE said:

2011: I watched the movie Puss in boots everyday and skipped to the last scene just for Americano, I was 7 and I had no idea who lady Gaga but I was obsessed with that song  so actually American was the first Gaga song I heard

2015: I found out who Lady Gaga was and started showing my sibling pics of her crazy fabulous outfits, but I still wasn’t listening to her music 

2016: I was 12 and got my first phone started listening to her essential hits on Spotify listened to BTW album a lot.

2018: Getting obsessed with TFM and Joanne,BTW

2019: listening to ARTPOP on repeat on the swing outside my house, obsessed at this point

2022: Bought tickets for TCB Dallas and Houston and had the time of my life baby

I REMEMBER HEARING AMERICANO IN PUSS IN BOOTS TOO. I was only 11 so I think it was when I was jussssttttt starting to find out who she was.

[Freezie03 957]

YALL I JUST REMEMBERED in middle school they did like a trivia thing every morning where if you answered a trivia question right on the morning announcements you'd get like a prize or something. Any way they said "What famous singer's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta? [My name] would know the answer to this question!" And I got so embarrassed 

[RenegAde 18,310]

2008 : hearing just dance and pretending not to like it cuz   my family members hated it ( didn't want to seem uncool or sus)

2009 :  hearing bad romance and thinking it was the best thing I'd ever heard 

2010 : alejandro dropping and all my brothers secretly loving it 

2011 : Getting called a gay in boarding school for always hyping gaga instead of rappers like the rest of my class mates 

2012 : Judas gaga! Being my theme song 

2013 : me and my family gagging at Gaga at the applause performance at the VMAs 

2014 : letting my stan card rest for while

2015 : learning judas, poker face and applause choreo ! 

2016 : stan mode back on ! Defending perfect illusion everywhere possible 

2017 : superbowl (Nuff said)

2018 :  listening to A star is born sound track and crying my eyes out( first time I cried uncontrolled because of music)

 

[M i K E Y 7,454]

2013: Applause being released, ARTPOP being everywhere and me listening to The Fame on my old ass phone. May dad loaded it onto my phone and I felt SO COOL listening to tunes from BDR and Boys Boys Boys

🦗🦗🦗

2018: listening to BTW album for the first time and falling in love with Gaga, coming out, the whole world adoring her for ASIB months after I became a stan

2019: Enigma being announced, LG6 hype

2020: Chromatica and it’s short run

2021: My bf surprising me with HOG tickets

2022: attending TCB opening night in Düsseldorf GCEE 

[HotLikeMexico 4,641]

Honestly the funniest for me is still 2008  

I heard Just Dance on MySpace randomly and was like oh this song sounds soo cool and fresh. I played it so much I ran it to the ground. A week later, I saw the MV was about to play on tv. When she appeared on the TV I was like wait… Lady Gaga is white??!  I don’t know why I didn’t bother to look her up after first listening to Just Dance nor why in my mind I envisioned a black singer. Either way I laugh about it now. But a black Lady Gaga could’ve been so fierce too. 

[KubaM316 13,611]

2009: One day my mum came home, typed something on YouTube and played Bad Romance (I bet she heard it on the radio). And that's how I learned about Gaga.

2010: Overplaying Bad Romance every single day, singing in my own made-up language (I didn't knew English yet) and trying to learn the choreo from the music video. We used to have a portable bath (I don't know if it's the right name - I just googled it) and I would take it into the bedroom, place it upside down on the floor, and I would recreate the Bath Haus scene. 

2013: I was just flipping the channels on TV and I came across Your Face Sound Familiar IN THE SAME MOMENT when one of the participants was performing Bad Romance, and it immediately caught my attention. I guess if it wasn't for Gaga, I don't know if I'd ever get into this show.

2015: I found out that Hello Hello from my beloved movie Gnomeo and Juliet is sung by Elton and Gaga. 

2016: I was singing some karaoke on ISing and this way I discovered Perfect Illusion.

2018: It was the time when I was slowly becoming obsessed with Gaga and started seeing her as something more than just another pop star that I liked. Not to mention spending days on watching lots of YouTube video about her (anyone remembers Government Gypsy?).

2019: I was sick and I needed to stay at home for few days, so I finally watched the AHS Hotel (just and only because Gaga was in it, hehe) and I loved it.

2020: Few hours before the VMAs we had a little watch party with people from GGD and I remember we couldn't find any site that would be streaming the show, and I'm pretty sure that at the end we finally found something but I feel asleep. 

2021: Going to the movies theater and seeing House of Gucci.

2022: Watching The Chromatica Ball through Instagram livestreams and then going back on Twitter cause the livestream has ended and quickly trying to find another working link. 

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1 hour ago, Freezie03 said:

YALL I JUST REMEMBERED in middle school they did like a trivia thing every morning where if you answered a trivia question right on the morning announcements you'd get like a prize or something. Any way they said "What famous singer's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta? [My name] would know the answer to this question!" And I got so embarrassed 

Lmaoooo they said "hey everyone, _____ is an f-word" 

[2School4Cool 6,159]

2008: Being shocked to find out that the girl who sings Poker Face is the same girl who sings that Just Dance song 😮

2009: A local radio station refusing to play LoveGame because it was too sexual

2010: Alejandro being on the radio on repeat and never getting tired of it (despite not being a real Gaga fan yet)

2011: My mom buying the Born This Way album and me being completely mesmerized and obsessed

2012: Somehow feeling confident/delusional that one day there would be new BTWB tour dates and I’d somehow get to go to a show near me that wasn’t announced yet 🙃

2013: The unmatched excitement of my ARTPOP CD coming in the mail and seeing that it had the foil cover like I hoped it would.

2014: My grandparents being amazing and taking me to my first Gaga concert (my grandma still knows all the words to ARTPOP)

2015: Being thrilled that people loved her Oscars performance, after the public response to ARTPOP I was just thrilled to see people recognizing her vocal talent.

2016: The warm and cozy feeling I felt listening to Joanne, that album still feels like such a warm hug.

2017: My second Gaga concert. When Gaga asked who in the crowd was a part of the LGBTQ+ community and I screamed, my grandma wrapped her arm around me and gave me a hug. My grandpa had passed away two years earlier so we were emotional when she sang TEOG and Million Reasons.

2018: Crying when I saw ASIB in the movie theater.

2019: Being so proud when Joanne (piano version) won a Grammy, I was thrilled that such a special song to Gaga got such recognition even when it wasn’t even a hit single.

2020: Watching the iconic Chromatica era come together as the pandemic was just starting, and being proud of her for helping put together the One World: Together At Home show.

2021: Her beautiful performance of the national anthem at Biden’s inauguration.

2022: Watching Chromatica Ball videos from home and wishing I could attend, but being thrilled to see her look so happy and healthy onstage.

[2School4Cool 6,159]

1 hour ago, Freezie03 said:

YALL I JUST REMEMBERED in middle school they did like a trivia thing every morning where if you answered a trivia question right on the morning announcements you'd get like a prize or something. Any way they said "What famous singer's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta? [My name] would know the answer to this question!" And I got so embarrassed 

HAHA that reminded me of my high school health class, we had a completely random fun day off in class where we did a bunch of random celebrity trivia (don’t ask me why we were doing this in health class haha), we were broken into teams, and part of it was guessing celebrities from their baby pictures or pictures of them as a little kid. Everyone was shocked when I guessed Gaga INSTANTLY and my team won, I think we got extra credit on our test because of it 

[Schwerk 7,039]

Ok, reading this all back I feel very blessed 

2008: My collegue was a big fan, me not yet. He arranged and interview with her and I was gonna direct and do camera, but my boss canceled it cause she wasn't famous enough and we had to go film some dumb event instead. 

2009: I had downloaded what I thought was The Fame and played it before clubbing. My friend was like 'What are these songs?' And I was like 'Lady GaGa'  and she was like, I have her album and this is not on it. Turns out it was the singles with a bunch of unreleased tracks. Some of which still are favs of mine.

2010: Saw her live for the first time at the Monsterball. Met people that are close friends till this day. Gaga looked right at me during Telephone and said 'Sing Beyonces part' and I f'd up the words  She couldn't hear but she did see haha.

2011: Met her for the first time after the MB in the US. She was so excited about the gifts I brought her. 

2012: Was on stage with her at the BTW Ball. But my fav memory was when she saw me in the crowd the next day and said hi and I threw my hairpiece on stage later on and she laughed picked it up, tried to put it on and joked about it.

2013: ARTPOP listening party in Berlin. Such a cool experience and beautiful to see her so vulnerable and powerful in an intimate setting.

2014: Gotta go with two moments. Gave her two t-shirts I made of her mom and dad for her bday and she wore the Joe shirt and posted it on Twitter. Fav moment was her being all proud showing it off to fans and paparazzi and the idea she built an outfit around that shirt in a week filled with 'looks'.

Other moment was on the release day of C2C in Amsterdam, she wrote Marry the Night on my arm and kissed it and I got both tattooed.

2015: Cheek to cheek tour in Copenhagen was the best. Was was great fans, front row, wet AF cause it rained all day but during the show it was dry. Tony was joking with us, it was amazing.

2016: TIHTY Oscar's crying watching her perform on the couch with my roommate in the middle of the night.

2017: Being proud AF watching her in the middle of the night doing the Superbowl. 

2018: Joanne tour with the best people, front row. She recognized us and sang to my friend.

2019: The first Jazz & Piano was amazing and when that crowd of GP gave her a standing ovation I was so proud. + Oscar win. I was beaming with pride and happiness.

2020: Smile performance. I love that song and always cried when Tony sang it during the C2C tour Her version is so sweet, I love it.

2021: The 911 music video blew me away. Also seeing HOG right before another lockdown in a full theater with people that actually laughed at Patrizia's sassy remarks was a treat.

2022: Chromatica Ball Arnhem. First time ever being front row, dead center. She was staring me down so much and it was amazing and so empowering to see her so happy and strong.