Holy crap, turns out the rumors about the Kanye West / Lady GaGa arena tour being off were true; Live Nation has announced that the tour’s been canceled, and that refunds will be issued. (Well, you got this one, MediaTakeOut.) More to come, I’m sure… [ABC / Earlier; HT: AV Club]
Kanye’s blog still has ads for the tour
Fame Kills tour. Fame kills… tour? Yes, this will be the music blog headline of choice tonight.
Aw, lame, I woulda gone.
I’m more surprised that MTO got something right than the Tour being cancelled. It’s felt doomed for a while.
I always suspected Kanye would immolate his own career eventually.
This wasn’t exactly how I thought it’d go down (make entire country, including first black president, hate you because you thought you were being chivalrous over some lady’s denied award), but I guess he always has to be original.
AV club comment made me LOL:
“Kanye I respect you and I’m gonna let you quit but Michael Jackson had one of the biggest cancelled tours of all time.”
@ObtuseIntolerant: Hey! Are you going to see the Jonas Brothers in Norfolk? I can’t talk anyone I know into going…
Just as a heads up… you’ve been cited by cited as the “via” source by Pitchfork.
CNN headline: “Kanye West’s ‘Fame Kills’ tour meets swift end.”
Ha!
I’m pretty sure we can blame Kanye for Chicago not getting the 2016 Olympics, too.
@chachwitablog: Something tells me that there were other factors at play…
@Maura: aw way to be a downer! true, though. I’d just LIKE to blame Kanye for this.