Before They Were Stars
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Christina Aguilera
Xtina takes The Wakeup Show by storm with her signature melisma-laden oversinging. It's hard to believe she already developed those habits by age 7 or 8.
Fergie
Stacy Ferguson, a.k.a. Fergie, got her start performing on the 80's TV show Kids Inc. Fergie participated from the start of the series in 1984 until she moved on in 1989.
Kids Inc. was a show about a group of talented young performers who were basically the house band at what was essentially a kids' club. Each episode was one TV show cliche on top of another forming a flimsy plot that acted as a vehicle for the Kids Inc. group to precociously perform covers of pop songs. The accompanying costumes, dance routines and settings were usually extremely bizzare and sometimes completely incongruous to the song being sung.
Needless to say, all these elements combined to create one of the most disturbingly entertaining spectacles that TV has ever offered.
Opening theme from the '85/'86 seasons:
Fergie and the gang sing Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" while dressed as hicks at a hoedown?
Fergie throws down some of Madonna's "Material Girl" while dressed as Marie Antoinette?
...And THIS little gem is indisputably the strangest performance of Fergie's entire career, which of course makes it the best. Ever. There are no words for its arresting weirdness:
The Spice Girls
Here's a compilation video showing some great pre-spice moments
Alanis Morissette
When she was 12, Alanis appeared for one season on the classic Nickelodeon TV show You Can't Do That On Television.
Alanis is in the red shirt and sassy short hair in these clips:
YCDTOTV saw the birth of Nickelodeon's trademark slime, and not even Alanis was safe from its green sliminess.
Ben Affleck
You might remember Ben as that jerk O'Bannion from Dazed and Confused
Brad Pitt
Brad saw a lot of random roles back in the day.
With Johnny Depp as a jock in an episode of 21 Jump Street:
As some guy named Randy in Dallas:
Morgan Freeman
Everyone's favorite sincere, soothing voice used to be the Easy Reader on The Electric Company.
Courtney Cox
The Boss put Courtney into the spotlight and she liked it so much she never left. Check her out at 2:23 and then getting pulled onstage at 3:18