Before The GaGa

Love her, hate her or simply don’t understand what all the fuss is about, one must, at the very least, concede that Lady Gaga has become a pop phenomenon this year. With her outrageous outfits and stage antics, a bit Bowie, Madonna and Warhol, she's undeniably changing the pop music scene. However, in 2005, as this clip shows, she was just Stefani Germanotta, an N.Y.U. freshman competing in an annual talent show.