{"id":75880,"date":"2025-09-20T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75880\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:51:13","slug":"watch-unseen-footage-of-lady-gaga-planning-cancelled-2009-fame-kills-tour-with-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75880\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch unseen footage of Lady Gaga planning cancelled 2009 &#8216;Fame Kills&#8217; tour with Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary shows previously unseen footage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/lady-gaga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Gaga<\/a> planning the joint tour she and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/kanye-west\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West<\/a> were due to embark on in 2009 \u2013 check it the clip below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/lady-gaga-mayhem-review-3844395\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Gaga \u2013 \u2018Mayhem\u2019 review: queen of pop bombast dials everything up to eleven<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The \u2018Fame Kills\u2019 tour would have seen Gaga and West co-headline a series of dates across North America in support of the pop star\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2QFRAxh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Fame Monster<\/a>\u2018 EP and the rapper\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2xs2j5L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">808s and Heartbreak<\/a>\u2018 album.<\/p>\n<p>The planned tour never took place, however. It was cancelled shortly after West interrupted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s winner\u2019s speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. No reason was given for the cancellation at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new documentary about the rapper titled In Whose Name? has unearthed footage of Gaga planning the tour.\u00a0She can be seen in an office planning choreography for the shows, saying: \u201cKanye starts here, right? So he\u2019s on one side of the stage, and I\u2019m here on this side of the stage, and I\u2019m trying to get to him, and he\u2019s trying to get to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got the fame and I want the fame, right?\u201d she continues. \u201cSo he\u2019s in a dark, cultish, tormented, spiritual world that\u2019s void of naivete and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new Kanye West documentary features unseen footage of Lady Gaga planning the Fame Kills tour, which she was set to co-headline with the rapper in 2009 before it was cancelled. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Y5L4Vkpwi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6Y5L4Vkpwi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gaga Daily (@gagadaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gagadaily\/status\/1969187366368620991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/lady-gaga-kanye-west-cancelled-joint-tour-2380715\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaga was asked about the tour in an interview <\/a>while promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album-review-a-star-is-born-official-soundtrack-2387517\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Star Is Born<\/a>. Though she didn\u2019t mention West specifically, she compared the experience to the characters in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that everybody has a threshold and everybody\u2019s human, and artists are human,\u201d she said. \u201cThis film also deals with mental health, substance abuse, and addiction \u2013 a lot of trauma as well, for Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Ally, there\u2019s a suggestion of it as well, when she walks up the stairs and says to her father, \u2018You know all about drugs.\u2019 I think it\u2019s important to care for people and to look out for their mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with it if an artist needs to stop \u2013 it\u2019s them listening to their body and their mind [\u2026] It\u2019s nice to be treated like a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, released yesterday (September 19), was cut from over 3,000 hours of footage and directed by Nico Ballesteros, who started filming in 2018, at age 18.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after years of controversy for West, which has culminated in him being unable to secure live bookings in recent years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-kanye-west-perform-on-stage-with-his-four-children-at-vultures-2-listening-party-in-china-3794159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having only played in China and South Korea since 2023<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/slovakia-festival-set-to-headline-kanye-west-cancelled-after-thousands-sign-petition-calling-for-him-to-be-removed-from-line-up-3878033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A scheduled show at a Slovakian festival was recently cancelled<\/a>\u00a0after a petition against his appearance received thousands of signatures.<\/p>\n<p>In July, he gave a rare performance in Shanghai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/kanye-west-fans-in-shanghai-chant-for-refund-after-erratic-gig-3878067\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which led to fans\u00a0chanting for a refund after he arrived late and gave an erratic performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest of Ye\u2019s controversies occurred on May 8 this year, the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/ye-song-glorifying-hitler-gets-millions-views-x-platforms-struggle-rem-rcna205905\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he released a song called \u2018Heil Hitler\u2019<\/a>. Earlier this year, he was also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/kanye-west-sued-for-discrimination-and-accused-of-texting-hail-hitler-to-jewish-yeezy-employee-3837691\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued for discrimination and accused of texting \u201cHail Hitler\u201d to Jewish Yeezy employee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The song\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/kanye-west-blocked-from-entering-australia-over-hitler-song-3875496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led to West being banned from travelling to Australia<\/a>, with the country\u2019s home affairs minister, Tony Burke, confirming that the rapper\u2019s visa has been revoked earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, the rapper also wiped his Yeezy site clean,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/kanye-west-releases-new-song-beauty-and-the-beast-before-stripping-yeezy-site-to-only-sell-swastika-t-shirt-3836729\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving only a white t-shirt with a large swastika on the chest available for sale<\/a>. In previous years, Ye had delivered a series of antisemitic comments\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/kanye-west-tells-jewish-people-to-forgive-hitler-compares-porn-to-the-holocaust-3361860\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during an interview with far-right commentator Gavin McInnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new documentary shows previously unseen footage of Lady Gaga planning the joint tour she and Kanye West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,2873,19,17,337,4513],"class_list":{"0":"post-75880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hip-hop","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-pop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}