A new documentary shows previously unseen footage of Lady Gaga planning the joint tour she and Kanye West were due to embark on in 2009. The ‘Fame Kills’ tour would have seen Gaga and West co-headline a series of dates across North America in support of the pop star’s ‘The Fame Monster‘ EP and the rapper’s ‘808s and Heartbreak‘ album.
The planned tour never took place, however. It was cancelled shortly after West interrupted Taylor Swift‘s winner’s speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. No reason was given for the cancellation at the time.
Now, a new documentary about the rapper titled In Whose Name? has unearthed footage of Gaga planning the tour. She can be seen in an office planning choreography for the shows, saying: “Kanye starts here, right? So he’s on one side of the stage, and I’m here on this side of the stage, and I’m trying to get to him, and he’s trying to get to me.
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. pic.twitter.com/6Y5L4Vkpwi
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“He’s got the fame and I want the fame, right?” she continues. “So he’s in a dark, cultish, tormented, spiritual world that’s void of naivete and hope.”
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.