Amber Rose, Kanye West, Lady Gaga
(Amber Rose, Kanye West, and Lady Gaga at the VMA pre-swift-gate red carpet)

Lady Gaga attended a Billboard Magazine event and said that she and Kanye agreed to cancel their Fame Kills tour together….hmmm:

“It was a mutual decision… Kanye’s going to take some time off. But the good news is that I’m going on tour in a few weeks.**“

Lori Ann Gibson, Gaga’s longtime choreographer who was working on moves for the shows with the singer, claimed on her Twitter feed that “creative differences” between the Gaga and West led to the tour’s abrupt demise.” (source Billboard)

So….wait a tootin’ tarnation minute….During a previous interview on San Diego’s Star94 FM, Gaga said that when she finished the Fame Kills tour in January 2010, she would be heading right back out on another world tour in March 2010.

But now, Gaga is going “on tour in a few weeks“? Well, the cancelled tour was due to start “in a few weeks.” Will they use the same dates/venues routed for the Fame Kills or switch the venues to smaller ones? And….if I do the math (add the 3, carry the 1)….doesn’t that just mean that Lady Gaga and Kanye West “mutually agreed” to cancel Fame Kills, so Gaga can do a smaller Fame Kills Tour without Kanye??

That’s some hocus pocus, ain’t it?

I’m not disputing the “mutual”-ness of the move, just the “cancellation” part of it ; ) As for motivating factors:

There were rumors of disagreements between Gaga’s camp and Kanye’s camp…Probably fueled by the fact that at this point in Gaga’s career, this being her peak and first world tour, her business handlers may not see the advantages of touring ‘Ye outweighing the current risk. We can clearly see the benefit from a creative standpoint, but its the hard truth in terms of pure ticket sales/album sales. Meanwhile, TMZ reports that the tour already suffered poor ticket sales, which surprised me.

Then there’s the fact that Kanye is mid-cycle album-wise. He does not have new music out right now, so this is basically the 808’s tour which should have happened earlier. But that seems easily fixable, even on the road. I’m hearing ‘Ye already has great material on tap.

And finally, there’s the post-Taylor-Swift-Gate hoopla…which has fueled rumors of rehab treatment…less so for actual substance abuse, and more just as pro-active penance for a bloodthirsty public with nothing better to worry about. *groan*

UPDATE: Gaga also told MTV News that she will not be using any of the Fame Kills stageshow elements….see after the jump

“In respects to the creative work that [Kanye and I] did together, I won’t be doing any of the things that we designed for the tour,” she explained. “It will be entirely new, and it will be just as amazing and memorable and epic”