Lady Gaga Apologizes for R. Kelly Collaboration

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but people told her about r kelly

im sorry, but she knew damn well about all the allegations before they released the song

she could have mentioned that instead of acting like she's JUST realizing it

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I guess Gaga can't win with ONTD, right? There's always something to criticize.

i'm a fan of hers

attacking the wrong person sis

It's not that, it's just celebrities ONLY apologize once they have to. There's real shit they know about each other that we'd kill to know about, they aren't as clueless as they portray themselves to be.

Also, at this point, celebrities should apologize with their actions, instead of their words. Cause then it becomes a get out of jail free card on social media, you really think kevin and gaga are sorry? They knew and didn't care, they never do, until they have to. The oscars might as well use a holographic host at this point, it'll draw more attention than any celeb can.

most of ontd likes her

This is a lie, stop it.

totally ot: sis i didn't know you were back!!!

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Seriously. She should’ve said this when they started promoting the single with Christina as the feature and dropped the R Kelly version. It’s way too late now. If she wanted to go the extra step she should’ve denounced Terry Richardson too.
That music video is going to leak in full eventually since TMZ has a copy and she’s better off saving her ass and pubically regret working with both of them. That MV will destroy her career. The leaked snippets are already damaging.

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So much talk. the first and the last sentence alone would have make this a good statement. All the personal stuff in between is just her making noise. But she is GaGa, what else did she ever do.

She is so full of shit

And she’s only doing this because she felt the pressure mounting and knew it could hurt her awards season and chafes for an Oscar.

That’s it.

She is rather transperabt transparent.

Same. I'm TIRED of seeing PR responses, which is what this is, and not actually support for victims.

Times are changing and maybe with the new crop of entertainers/celebrities they would be more careful about who they choose to work with. The ones now need to get with the program. We're not going back.

I'm glad she spoke up even and addressed what was needed

while it's good she spoke up...isn't it a little too late??

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it's never too late to speak out or people would be saying the same thing about the victims....

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5 years later. She's only speaking out because of the documentary and her awards are in jeopardy. It's calculated.

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Yeah ok

I love how she does this right before Oscar noms. She’s so annoying jfc

People would have gotten on her case if she stayed silent though. Its better that she addressed it now.

True but a lot of people knew what a piece of shit he was in 2013

It’s just such a hollow excuse for me when she has been abused herself; so why even be associated with him in the first place?

I’m on my moral high ground rn, I totally I know I am

True.

True [3]

Absolutely, not speaking out at all would have been worse for her.

Yeah

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Can you stop with this?

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yep that's the game. last year timothee chalamet was suddenly v v sorry about working with woody allen right before the academy starting casting their votes, too

It’s so obvious.

She is so fake and fraudulent.

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I don't think the Oscars give a shit about R Kelly
He's big but not that big

She needs to apologize for this too:
https://statig2.akamaized.net/bancodeimagens/5g/wa/zi/5gwaziv60k60tes8k99cg0yl0.jpg

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I mean, there's not a chance those elderly assholes in the Academy know or care who R. Kelly is, lbr.

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Good for her. She should replace dwuw with the Xtina version tho.

he has a writing credit even on the Xtina one i believe

Ugh, welp

I like the collaboration as it healed my 2008 conflicted stan heart but solo version is most superior

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whew she read my comment in the previous post and couldn’t lose me as a stan. But in all seriousness, better late than never. Tho this still won’t be good enough for most, and that’s understandable too.

this is all mte rn

your icon is amazing

And yours is hilarious! I love it and I wonder what the cat was thinking. I kill you, piano *bite*

the ol' notes app apology that is only happening because she got caught
as far as apologies go, it's decent, she's acknowledging her wrongdoing and putting an action in place to mitigate the consequences
but still, those poor girls and women whose voices were silenced for so long, i only hope they can find some peace and see their abuser punished for his crimes

I have problems with this because he was already a huge creep when she collaborated with him, and I distinctly remember at the end of the SNL performance that she was cradling him in a manner that came across as "I stand by and believe this guy."

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this was the worst apology to make imo

she's totally erasing the fact that people thought it was gross BACK THEN

This. People have been saying stuff about this for ages - not as vocally as now but when she had her song about sexual assault, i saw this and her terry shit brought up so people didn't just forget like she did. Saying she was young is bullshit. Sis was TWENTY FIVE.

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Yeah, why is she acting like she didn’t know when she said this:

"R. Kelly and I have sometimes, very untrue things written about us, so in a way this was a bond between us,' said Gaga of their work together on the single 'Do What U Want."

Great statement. It doesn't make it okay or "absolve" her but it's well stated and definitive.

Edited at 2019-01-10 06:14 am (UTC)

But also, not here for her not taking accountability for being aware of many allegations and alluding to them being untrue.

Completely agreed

IA. People can go either way with how they feel but your response is really the most measured you can be about this.

I agree. And her explanation (not justification) rings true to me. Lawd knows I said some messy stuff about sexual assault while in the depths of my own trauma.

huh, i wasn't expecting her to remove the song off itunes and streaming sites. that was good of her imo.

Well she did admit how explicitly twisted her way of thinking was when she recorded Artpop. And I believe her. It was pretty evident then that she was too high, too depressed, too anxious to flop, too arrogant to not get a NO from her people that time.

The song is mostly about her haters and media bullying her and how she’s not gonna let those affect her, unfortunately the R Kelly feature + the double innuendo title ruined everything. She shouldve just included the Xtina version in the album.

Good she released this statement - better late than never. But yeah, the fact that she hired R Kelly to do the rap part + Terry Richardson directing the scrapped video are both still disgusting.

Edited at 2019-01-10 06:32 am (UTC)

r kelly doesn't rap

Yep. I meant verse.

🙄 She still close friends with Terry Richardson, he was just at one of her parties and she has a tattoo of his mom’s name on her after she passed away...

He’s in her inner circle of friends.

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She's in Oscar campaign mode

She handled it better than Cate Blanchett. I was thinking of the similarities between the 2 since both had scandals arise during awards seasons.

Cate was before Me Too and Woody had just won a Lifetime Achievement award so he was still a beloved figure. Celeb backlash against Woody is really recent.

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Can you stop II?

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she can go full mode, won't help her beat olivia colman - she's got it in the bag lmao

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That’s it. She doesn’t really care about what he did rather on how it would affect her Oscar chances.

So fake.

tbh i like she explained the headspace she was in. she knew both richardson and kelly were creeps (we literally all did - this wasn't some weinstein ho ho casting couch situation, kelly's video was ancient and i still have scars from seeing terry's tumblr), if she was working through some trauma in an unhealthy way that's probably exactly why she chose them.

Has she denounced Terry Richardson

Not to my knowledge :/

She should

When and in what context? And has she worked with him after? It kind of makes the whole apology ring a little hollow to say "oh gosh, I didn't realize that the obvious evidence that this man compulsively hurts young women was true!" and only speak out on 1/2 of the predators involved in this entire mess.

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not even a little bit lol

she never would lbr

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That may be, but that whole video concept, and how sexual her performances with him were, was like spitting in the face of his/terry's victims and other victims of rape. No matter how drugged up you are, you already knew about and heard about him. She was in full control of her career at that point, she approved that video. Also, Galliano was drugged up and depressed and scared of flopping too, doesn't make what he did excusable with a tweet.

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ia

in her apology, she did not say that she knew they were creeps. she’s acting like this is the first time she’s hearing of these r. kelly allegations while also making excuses for why she worked with him at the time. i appreciate her explaining her headspace at the time as well but nowhere does she state that she specifically picked r. kelly and terry to be part of the music video because of her trauma. come on now

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Since she's at it she should also at least remove the problematic parts of Aura and Born this way like Taylor did the homophobic parts from that one song.

Shame cause she's only doing it cause it's a "hot topic" rn and she got called out. You had all that time to say something, fuck even not to work with that sexual predator but your ARTflop was more important. I see right through you, Gags.

You don't know her and you don't what she has thought and you don't know what she went through.

Sis, this is ONTD. We know everything about everyone and you'll hear about it whether you like it or not.

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Agreed. She doesn't have me fooled for even a second. The moment that trash song was announced everyone was on her back about how awful he was and she was fighting TOOTH AND NAIL to STILL put that damn video up. I like how people conveniently forget that. She wasn't apologetic in even the slightest-if anything, she was arrogant. Scoffing at everyone as if they had no idea what her precious R.Kelly was like. She was too old to not know how bad R.Kelly was by then. She knew. She just didnt care. Sure being in a bad place might have made that worse, but a lot of people are in bad places and still know a pedophile when they see one. Keep it, gags.