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

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1. > “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.”

2. See, this is just what I tell people who say that I’ll never win the lottery. You can’t give up, just look at the people who have won!

3. You might add, ‘You can’t give up, especially when you’re super talented.’

4. There can be 99 people in a room….

5. I feel you Lady Gaga. College peers and their cliques.

6. Kenny Edmonds, Also known as Babyface, was my summer camp counselor, Camp Rancho Framosa, Central Indiana.

   We loved him, but thought he was delusional. He played guitar and sang us to sleep. I distinctly remember him playing [Stewball was a racehorse](https://youtu.be/hXdQB-mR4tg). He would often talk about how famous he was gonna get. He’d often say things like “I’m gonna be so big, you don’t even know”.

   Great guy, who schooled us all on the power of determination (when mixed with huge talent).

7. Boy were they wrong

8. Haters gonna hate!!

9. Good for her that she made it. I mean, she’s really good, I don’t want to take anything from her. But I’m 100% sure there are a lot of people better than her who never got even close to be a successful artist.

   The market is really tough and it does need a lot of luck. Most of the time you have to be in the right place at the right time for someone important see you, or be available to work with you, or when you sign, pick the right agent, or just release an album/song at the right time. You can’t control any of that and they could cost your career.

   It’s an anedoctal evidence, but anyway. Some time ago Rick Beato told in his channel a story about a band who was really good, got several offers from labels, picked one and turned out it was a bad decision, but there was no way they could know it without predicting the future. The label assigned a producer to work with them, but the guy wasn’t much into it, didn’t make the record how the band should sound and they just didn’t happen.

10. Lmao irrelevant, she’s a billionaire stepping on normal living folks. Keep rubbing it lady Gaga plant.

11. Glad for her but…survivorship bias. Telling people they shouldn’t give up can actually be horrific advice. I’m in the arts and the number of people who toil and believe their time will come if they just stick it out…too many to mention. 99%+of people are not going to ‘make it’ (subjective term), and excessive positivity manifesting bootstraps talk can destroy a person when it doesn’t come true.

12. She was pretty popular in college from what I hear

13. I feel like lady gaga has really been picked on and shit on in her life. I don’t know her personally but she’s never come across as anything other than endearing and genuine.