Lady Gaga's 'Do What U Want' ft. R.Kelly is officially removed from iTunes, Spotify & Youtube

January 10th, 2019, 05:59 pm

Lady Gaga's 'Do What U Want' ft. R.Kelly is officially removed from iTunes, Spotify & Youtube

Track No. 7 "Do What U Want" featuring R Kelly is now officially removed from @LadyGaga's 2013 album ARTPOP on iTunes and Apple Music: https://t.co/3Lw8Ph7g40
— Gaga Daily (@gagadaily) January 10, 2019

After peaking in the top 20 of iTunes earlier today, Lady Gaga's Do What U Want ft. R.Kelly has been removed from iTunes.

UPDATE: song deleted off Spotify and YouTube, remixes (ft. XTina, Rick Ross) are also starting to come down. Amazon music is next.

Source + iTunes

Tagged: apology / damage control, lady gaga, music / musician, music / musician (pop), r kelly, scandal, sexual misconduct

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i don't get why it took so long for it to be removed? i know it probably isn't as simple as calling up the CEO of apple and saying "hey remove my song" but shes lady gaga, shes a huge A list celebrity with pull.

I actually think the removal was pretty fast. Artists have pull, but do not legally own their music in the ways we think they do. It would have to go through the label and Apple and some artists have tried to get music removed for other reasons (or blocked) and were just straight up told no lol. I mean, she probably should have started the process before the apology, but this is about as fast as you can expect if she started the day of the apology.

The only version left on Apple Music right now is the Xtina version. Doesn’t R Kelly still have writing credits on this version? Surprised it too hasn’t been removed yet unless I’m mistaken about the writing credits.

Yes he still has credit on that version :/

i don't think he does. if i remember correctly, he only wrote his own verses.

If Taylor can remove music from Spotify so can Gaga.

All these people apologizing for collabing w/ this psycho. Make him disappear permanently & we can call it even bc he will never apologize for himself.

One of the gossip shows found an artpop press conference where she says people lie all the time about her and rkelly. Likkkkeee this went beyond just putting out a song with him. Ugh

i'm not giving her credit for this. she should've never worked with him in the first place.

i was shocked when someone said in another post Adele loved R Kelly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90FOP4s_uTA
but at least she had the sense not to work with him

She's still best friends with Terry so fuck her honestly.

okay let's move on from the gags hate - AND BACK TO R KELLY!
Why is he still signed to his record label? Why is his music still on Spotify? Why does he tour successfully even after that Buzzfeed cult article last year? Why is he not in jail?

I don't understand why NOW all of a sudden people care about these young women.

Ikr. The marriage to Aaliyah, gossip starting from the 90s, his 2002 trial, his divorce, a heavily cited Buzzfeed article on his cult weren't enough. R Kelly's urinating and sex tape was lampooned on comedy sketch shows like Chapelle's Show almost 20 years ago. The industry knew whispers but didn't investigate.

I never thought a documentary series from Lifetime would do it, but glad it has sparked the conversation

Well it’s the documentary but honestly I find this all rich coming from Lifetime. They made a movie about Aaliyah and really glazed over and glamorized the relationship between her and R Kelly like it was some Romeo and Juliet type of thing, not even bringing up the fact that she was basically 14 years old.

The fact they even made that movie made me mad. Ugh.

Because there was a damning documentary that made them all look bad.

no social media back then made it easier to silence the public tbh

I just looked up R. Kelly on Wikipedia and he's the same age as my mom???

On subject... It's so gross to me that people are buying his music now after this scandal has hit it's boiling point.

wow i didnt realize he was 54 now
good... closer to death

It's still available if you had purchased it beforehand. (i bought Artpop when it came out, so i got the album attached to my account).
Which is a good thing, because then you get into a weird gray area of not letting people access stuff they purchased in general.

But they should just replace it with the solo version then.

But weeeird how its in the top 20 now.

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