Kevin Mazur/Getty Images, George Pimentel/Getty ImagesFame Kills is already dead.
The highly anticipated North American tour featuring pantsless wonder Lady Gaga and rapper-and-VMAs-pariah Kanye West has been canceled, promoter Live Nation confirmed Thursday.
Tickets will be refunded and, we're guessing, very few questions will be answered.
The pulled plug comes amid reports that Lady Gaga wanted out, though reps for both artists haven't given a reason for the switcheroo, though fallout from West's ill-advised stunt during Taylor Swift's moment in the spotlight at the MTV Video Music Awards has to be at the front of everyone's mind.
The "Poker Face" singer showed some sympathy for West just a couple days ago, calling him a "good guy" who still feels "so f--king bad" about what he did.
"I think it's unfair to judge somebody on one mistake they've made," she told Las Vegas radio station KLUC-FM on Tuesday. "I felt like that moment kind of like really portrayed him in a way that he really isn't. It was just a random moment. I think that everyone can get so caught up in gossip and stuff."
Their tour plans weren't revealed until after West told Jay Leno the night after the VMAs that he would be taking some time off to "analyze how [he is] going to make it through the rest of this life."
By the following day, the three-month Fame Kills tour featuring Kanye West and Lady Gaga was planning to kick off Nov. 10 in Phoenix.
"We did not do this tour for each other," Lady Gaga said on the radio this week. "We did this tour for everybody else. We wanted to do something that no one has ever seen."
Well, sure enough, no one will ever see it.
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