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Lady Gaga, that lightning rod of weirdness and pop music giant, has announced her new North American tour, appropriately dubbed "The Monster Ball." It was a month ago when she and professional interrupter/gay fish Kanye West had announced their "Fame Kills" tour, picking Phoenix as their first stop. Well, "Fame" was killed 2 weeks ago and the announcement that West needed to drop out of the limelight (no, really?) and keep his shit under wraps soon followed as an explanation as to why. Gaga, ever the entrepreneur, seized the moment for herself and put the word out that she would soldier on with her own tour.
Today, the former Stefani Germanotta announced her tour, kicking things off November 27 on Montreal and wrapping things up January 21 at Radio City Music Hall. Unfortunately, Phoenix is not on her list. The Valley went from having the first show on a humongous double-bill of two of today's most popular musicians to being completely disregarded. I don't know about you, but I blame Kanye West 100% for this.
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