{"id":491279,"date":"2019-10-15T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=899601"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:44:14","slug":"lady-gaga-releases-new-artpop-version-without-r-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lady-gaga-releases-new-artpop-version-without-r-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Releases New \u2018Artpop\u2019 Version Without R. Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lady-gaga-new-art-pop.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lady-gaga\/\">Lady Gaga<\/a> has made new physical copies of her 2013 album <em>Artpop&nbsp;<\/em>available for preorder, only this time without the original album\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/r-kelly\/\">R. Kelly<\/a> collaboration, \u201cDo What U Want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new vinyl and CD versions of&nbsp;<em>Artpop<\/em> are listed on Gaga\u2019s website, due out November 11th, and both versions leave the single \u201cDo What U Want\u201d off the tracklist. An older vinyl version of&nbsp;<em>Artpop<\/em> that includes \u201cDo What U Want\u201d is still featured on the website, but is listed as \u201csold out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several other former collaborators of Kelly have distanced themselves from the R&amp;B artist in the wake of <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>, released this past January, which highlighted the full extent of the sexual abuse allegations against him. But this will be the first time that an artist has done a full re-release of their album to remove his involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Lady Gaga vowed to remove \u201cDo What U Want\u201d from streaming platforms \u2014 a move similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chance-the-rapper\/\">Chance the Rapper<\/a>, who recently pulled his 2015 R. Kelly collaboration \u201cSomewhere in Paradise\u201d from streaming \u2014 and wrote an apology for his involvement with <em>Artpop<\/em>, calling the allegations against him \u201chorrifying\u201d and \u201cindefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a victim of sexual assault myself, I made both the song and video at a dark time in my life,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-artpop-r-kelly-do-what-up-want-899601\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga has made new physical copies of her 2013 album Artpop&nbsp;available for preorder, only this time without the original album\u2019s R. Kelly collaboration, \u201cDo What U Want.\u201d The new vinyl and CD versions of&nbsp;Artpop are listed on Gaga\u2019s website, due out November 11th, and both versions leave the single \u201cDo What U Want\u201d off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 01:17:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}