Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s Fame Kills Tour is dead.
As was speculated, Kanye’s antics on the VMA’s all but assured a ton of unsold tickets to his shows. And that’s exactly what happened. The tour’s promoter, Live Nation, announced the cancellation today. Tickets already sold will be refunded at the point of purchase.
In a story on its blog, The Times noted that West and Gaga were set to play the Staples Center on Nov. 16 in Los Angeles.
Then concert dates started disappearing from Ticketmaster.com prompting rumors that the tour was canceled. The Times speculated that “It’s unlikely an arena tour of this magnitude would be called off; it’s more likely that West and Lady Gaga are waiting for the controversy to die down.”
Kanye is not the first to cut up and act a fool in the VMA’s 25-year history, but the fallout from his publicity stunt was unprecedented. Many of Kanye’s peers in the industry came down on him hard, and even his mentor Jay Z said he was wrong.
But when the president of the United States calls you a jackass, that’s about as bad as it gets. No amount of damage control can undo the harm that Kanye has done to himself.
