do what u want ft r kelly

[TheARTPOPball 1,342]

15 hours ago, Kayioshka said:

I love this song but the fact that the lyrics are about private parties, that Gaga talks from the victim pov, R-Kelly from the wealthy freak and that there even was a performance of that... 

Creeps me out a lot. 

Still one of her best song tho. 

It’s definitely a lesson learned that when you ur brushing against evil it will quite literally do anything it can to take you down with it, even if you are doing so unintentionally. 

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I was today years old when I found out R Kelly is in the songwriting credits for the Xtina version too. I wonder if that has something to do with any re-release with another artist.

Still, I’d have just apologised but kept the song up. Like, it’s just going to R Kelly getting some M&Ms, right?

[Future Lovers 7,371]

The absolute dumbest decision of her entire career was making this fantastic song and then attaching a man with pedophile accusations that had been around for years and years already by the time this was made. 

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5 hours ago, robboadam said:

I was today years old when I found out R Kelly is in the songwriting credits for the Xtina version too. I wonder if that has something to do with any re-release with another artist.

Still, I’d have just apologised but kept the song up. Like, it’s just going to R Kelly getting some M&Ms, right?

At least his royalties go to his victims so... she should've kept it on streaming 

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7 hours ago, TheARTPOPball said:

the irony in the the meaning of the song vs what happened to the song is so undeniable.

IMO, there’s no “irony,” I think it was intentional commentary/provocation. 
 

C&P’d from a previous thread:

”I still stand by that, on a meta level, including a known abuser on a track about the way the media normalizes sexual abuse towards women using R. Kelly as a symbol for that is implicitly dunking on him. I genuinely think turning the reality of women being abused in the industry inside out through that song is brilliant, but the reality of doing it with him resulted in her feeling the need to be on good terms with him as a collaborator, which dilutes the power of the message.

It's like a blend between reality TV narrative logic/performance art logic/pop cultural critical analysis, which is very much Gaga's lane/wheelhouse. 

As a survivor of sexual assault, DWUW is honestly a song that I found very cathartic ("You can't have my heart/you won't use my mind.."). Is it a morally "flawed" depiction of sexuality and sexual agency? Sure. Does that make it any less *real* for the artist and the audience? No.

The fact that it was a messy and charged sublimation of trauma played out on a public stage using a figure like R. Kelly as the archetype of the normalization of sexual abuse in the industry is messy as hell and the tense line between needing his buy-in in order for the collab to work vs. the need to distance herself from him publicly in order to clarify her intent is part of what made it such a risky choice, but that tension also is what makes it uncomfortable and compelling. 

She was using the tools she felt she had (a massive platform, a skill for critical reinterpretation of pop cultural iconography, and her own personal trauma) to tell that story to the best of her ability while simultaneously leveraging the controversy as a lighting rod for discussion about sexual abuse in the industry and in general as well as the objectification and abuse of celebrity by the media.”

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2 hours ago, Future Lovers said:

The absolute dumbest decision of her entire career was making this fantastic song and then attaching a man with pedophile accusations that had been around for years and years already by the time this was made. 

But it was her best decision vocally speaking

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18 hours ago, CatelynnMarie said:

we need the solo version on streaming

We need Do What You Want (Stefani's version) 

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Honestly thank god for the solo and xtina versions online. I hated the official version and his verses from the start, he ruined an amazing song, and adding to the mix his past, I was so pissed she attached that idiot to such a brilliant track.