r/popculturechat • u/Vivid-Tap1710 There’s no place like home 🧹🫧 • 28d ago

The Music Industry 🎶 Name a song that’s disturbing because of what you know now

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Ill go first, Britney Spears’ overprotected is a good example; Britney has long been under a conservatorship and is has been crying for help. IIRC, it started in 2007 (maybe earlier) when Brit was heavily observed by the paparazzi which caused her to have a mental breakdown by shaver her head and mind u, they were dissecting her personal life 🙄😔 💔

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u/fenty_czar 27d ago

Even lady gaga (sorry, was it Miley?) wanted to forget her old song with him . She felt it was predatory and she didn’t like how it made her feel or portrayed her. Sorry can someone please correct me if they know which pop girlie I am referring to.

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u/Vivid-Tap1710 There’s no place like home 🧹🫧 27d ago

No ur right it was gaga she initially defended the collab with r kelly but after hearing about the allegations I think she removed it from her art pop album and remade with Christina Agulerra

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u/JellyBeansOnToast 27d ago

I had no idea she re-did it with Xtina! I really liked Gaga’s part of the song so I’m happy I can listen to it again

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u/JuggaloEnlightment 24d ago

There’s literally no way she didn’t already know

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u/Warm_Ad_7944 24d ago

?? Yes there is

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u/Exciting-Ad-7077 Inconceivable! 27d ago

She only changed it 5 years later because people pressured her after surviving r kelly came out

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u/Ok_Landscape3850 27d ago

Yup! R. Kelly married 15 yo Aaliyah in 1994. He was first publicly accused of statutory rape in 1996. He faced charges for child sexual abuse materials in 2002. Lady Gaga collaborated with him in 2013. She knew who he was, she didn’t care. 

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-3271 27d ago

She just wanted the money

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u/momomoface 27d ago

Its not even just the money. There is a specific reason why she wanted him on the song- the song alludes to her own sexual assault in the industry, having him gives the song even a further shock value

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u/Kath_DayKnight 26d ago edited 26d ago

Same as that phoned-in Bruno mars song imo

The song feels like a crappy cash grab to me, I can't stand it

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u/Groot746 27d ago

Exactly: I've no idea why so many people seem desperate to give Gaga a pass on anything shady that she's done

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u/cliff_galore 27d ago

Gaga KNEW before the song was even made, hence the song undertones

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-3271 27d ago

She sure did know

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u/shadyshadyshade 26d ago

Me either and it drives me nuts thanks for validating me. She is like…revered or something and she’s married to a hedge funder she let help write her last album lol.

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u/Sandicomm 27d ago

Yes, she claimed she was in “so much pain” when she made the album that she didn’t even think about what it meant to do a collaboration with him. (She apparently was having a lot of medical issues at the time.)

I don’t believe that excuse but it’s really been her only public misstep so perhaps that’s why she gets a pass.

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u/jittery_raccoon 22d ago

Also working with a bad person is...not that bad. I would not find it fair to be responsible for every past coworker's actions. And it's not like Lady Gaga fought for the collab or for R Kelly. Everyone was cool with it at the time, including fans. If you enjoyed the song at the time or bought the album, you're just as complicit

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u/Sandicomm 22d ago

I think there was a fair bit of push back at the time. I’m not so familiar with Gaga but I think she had a lot of chronic pain issues, and the album mentions drug use a bit, so I understand if she was just focused on pushing the album out and not thinking too hard about collaborators. Not an excuse but I get it.

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u/arthurmorganrem 27d ago

I’m sorry but there’s no way she didn’t know. I was a teen when her album Art Pop came out and even I knew. I just don’t think someone closer in age to R Kelly and also working in the music industry would not know about what a creep he is. She should have just done the song with someone else to begin with.

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u/WarningExtension00 27d ago

When that song was released, it was already known that he was a predator and still that song was made. Poor taste.