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Fame Kills Tour Cancellation A Mutual Decision

Joelle Tomlinson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:03:04 +0000

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Lady Gaga and Kanye West shocked fans on Thursday when they announced they would be canceling their much-anticipated Fame Kills tour without explanation.

But on Friday at an event in New York City, Gaga, who didn’t get into specifics about the cancellation, did say West would be taking some time off and she would be hitting the road on her own.

“Well, actually, it was a mutual decision to cancel the tour,” she told MTV News. “But I’m not taking any time off, so I’ll be leaving just a week later than I was supposed to on my own solo tour. IT will be the same places. So I will see you guys there. I’m putting out my re-release as well – The Fame Monster on November 24.”

According to mtvnews.com, she added an announcement about who will be joining her on this trek, hinting that the identity would be released soon. As for the look of the tour, she told reporters she would be starting from scratch.

“In respects to the creative work that Kanye and I did together, I won’t be doing any of the things that we designed for the tour,” she explained. “It will be entirely new, and it will be just as amazing and memorable and epic.”

West-Gaga Tour Cancelled

Sara Harowitz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:35:12 +0000

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Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s co-headlining tour “Fame Kills” has been cancelled, according to MTV News.

No reason for the cancellation has been given. The tour’s promoter, Live Nation, issued a press release that stated ticket refunds are available at the place of purchase, and tickets bought online or over the phone will be automatically refunded.

While the tour has been generating hype, rumors of its cancellation have been surfacing for days. A large amount of the negativity has stemmed from West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at last month’s MTV Video Music Awards.

The tour, which West announced unexpectedly at an appearance on The View last June, and was scheduled to kick off in Phoenix on Nov. 10, was not confirmed by either of the artists’ reps until mid-September.

The cancellation still comes somewhat abruptly, especially since Gaga spent last week promoting the tour during interviews with Las Vegas radio station KLUC and San Diego’s Star 94.

“We’re on each end of the stage, and I want to get to where Kanye is, which is ‘the fame,’” she said in one of the interviews. “He wants to get where I am, which is home and humble beginnings. For the whole show, we are battling each other [for our positions]. It’s been a really incredible creative experience.”

Gaga added that her and West “didn’t do this tour for each other. We did this tour for everybody else. We wanted our fans to feel like we were doing something special and we wanted to merge two groups of fans — two different [groups of] music lovers into one room.”

However, despite the cancellation of this tour, Gaga has a busy and exciting year ahead. She revealed in the interview that she would be embarking on her own headlining tour just weeks after “Fame Kills” wraps up.

And while many West and Gaga fans are sure to be upset by the cancellation, at least one thing can be taken away from this whole experience: while fame may or may not kill, a big mouth certainly will.

West And Gaga Release Provocative ‘Fame Kills’ Promo

Sara Harowitz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:16:42 +0000

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While Kanye West may have claimed to Jay Leno to be keeping a low profile on things after his Taylor Swift-MTV Video Music Awards debacle, the new video clip he posted on his blog begs to differ.

The promo video released on Wednesday, Sept. 23 for his new “Fame Kills” tour with Lady Gaga is anything but low profile, according to MTV News.

The video clip, posted by West under the headline, “What Happened to All the Rock Stars? Fame Killed Them!” is a slow motion film featuring a topless Gaga covering herself and wrapped in the arms of a black man while soft, moody music plays in the background. When 30 seconds of this pass, the name of the tour appears on the screen along with a voice that says, “Fame Kills!” and then “West + Gaga” flashes across.

West first made an announcement about the tour earlier this summer at an appearance on “The View,” but it wasn’t a sealed deal until last week. The “Fame Kills” tour is set to begin on Nov. 10 in Phoenix and wrap up Jan. 24 in Dallas.

Other than the video clip, however, West has managed to keep out of the direct spotlight. He even had his lawyer push back a court date that was scheduled for this month. The pre-trial hearing for West’s 2008 airport scuffle with a photographer has now been pushed back to Oct. 23. Lawyer Blair Berk reportedly went to the judge in the case and requested for the trial to be pushed back.

The scuffle took place on Sept. 11, 2008 at the Los Angeles International Airport. West and his road manager, Don C. Crowley, allegedly wrestled a camera out of the hands of a TMZ photographer who was trying to take the rapper’s picture. Crowley is then said to have thrown the photographer’s $10,000 camera to the ground and West is said to have smashed the flash. The debacle ended in an arrest. West has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts of vandalism, theft, and battery.

However, the pushed-back date still allows West lots of time to work on the new tour with Gaga. And no matter how you look at it, Gaga and West are sure to blow the top off this one.

Fame Kills from kwest on Vimeo.