Lady Gaga

It's Gaga for Go-Go.

Photos of Lady Gaga as a go-go dancer were posted all over her Little Monsters site, but rather than yanking them down or burying them, Ma Monster enjoyed the dance down memory lane. She even linked the photos to her Twitter page, since she has nothing to hide and is not ashamed of her past. As she summed up via a succinct and brilliant hashtag, it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll. That's what we call efficient hashtagging.

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Most of us don't get to choose our names, but celebrities do -- and when they start out with a snark-worthy or tongue-twisting real name, it makes the decision to abandon it even easier.

With that in mind, here are five stars with given names that probably wouldn't have gone up in lights, and the stories behind the stage names they chose instead.

Lady Gaga showed serious skin by wearing a safety pin adorned vintage Versace creation earlier this week, but she took it a step further by posing topless with fashion world doyenne Donatella Versace.

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When in Milano, do as the Milanese do, and that means put your best fashion foot forward. Lady Gaga was in Milan, located in her ancestral country of Italy  and she channeled fellow Italian, designer diva Donatella Versace, while wearing a safety pin dress that showed off plenty of her tattoos.

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Rather than attack critics that have ridiculed her for her recent weight gain, Lady Gaga took the power back by launching Body Revolution 2013, where she posted unaltered photos of herself and her body, prompting her dedicated throng of little monsters to follow suit. It's sparking a tremendous dialogue and discussion, all the while helping to debunk body image myths. Experts have weighed in to celebrate the Gaga-generated movement for how much it can help girls struggling with their weight or who have distorted images of their bodies.

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The rivalry between Lady Gaga and Madonna, which was started, stoked and supported by Madonna with her near-constant onstage disses of Gaga, nearly came to an end in the Bronx last month. Rumor has it that Madonna extended an olive branch and offered native New Yorker (and Yankee fan) Gaga a chance to duet onstage when Madge played Yankee Stadium. Gaga turned her down, though!

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Lady Gaga performed 'Hair' in Zurich, Switzerland, looking adorable wearing her ARTPOP leather hat. She took a moment to address all the negative press that's landing on her doorstop lately, from the "fat" comments to the "slut" label slapped on her by a politician. Gaga reads her press, but she doesn’t let it dampen or sour or her mood.

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Lady Gaga is certainly in possession of a shapely rear end, regardless of the flack she's been getting over her recent weight gain. Her derriere is so memorable, in fact, that it inspired the first line of high-end handbags from designer Thierry Mugler.

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Lady Gaga posted revealing photos of herself in lingerie on her LittleMonsters.com site earlier this week, bravely and boldly responding to the comments that she had gotten fat simply because she packed on a few pounds and sported a curvier frame. She has started what's being dubbed "Body Revolution," as her little monsters as also posting photos of their bodies as they are.

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Lady Gaga should be the first Twitter user in the site's history to reach 30 million followers. Stats indicate that she should hit this major digital milestone in just under two weeks.

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