After three years on the blacklist, China lifts gag on Lady Gaga

CNN ^ | 1/21/14 | Peter Shadbolt

[SoFloFreeper]

Lady Gaga -- the flamboyant and provocative New York-based pop singer -- has been removed from a Chinese government blacklist, allowing her chart-topping new album "ARTPOP" to go on sale legally in China.

But Chinese censors have placed conditions on the album art, inflating a large ball between her legs to cover more of the naked singer's body and adding a pair of black tights to the singer's bare legs.

The cover of her latest album was designed by the American artist Jeff Koons, who specializes in garish and kitsch representations of the banal and everyday.

[SoFloFreeper]

The Chinese must be caring less about the corruption of their yutes.

[Gamecock]

What little respect I had for China just went out the window.

[jmacusa]

Lady who?

[skinkinthegrass]

please re-consider your actions, re-install the
gag (for the skank)..for that matter, do it globally.

[dfwgator]

Apparently they’re the only ones who will buy it.

[autumnraine]

I remember when WHAM went to tour in China in the 80’s. The audience wasn’t allowed to dance or anything. Of course a ffew did anyway and were removed.

[a fool in paradise]

If she married Kajagoogoo, would she become Lady Gagagoogoo?

[Iron Munro]

Notice how “Lady Gaga” and the word “Gag” go together so well?

[a fool in paradise]

Why would Chiner need Lady Gaga when Japan is oh so close?

[GeronL]

We need to ban her in this country

[a fool in paradise]

Fans are fickle and soon enough she’ll be old hat and a hasbeen.

[dfwgator]

She already is a has-been, the sales of her latest album are tanking compared to her previous ones, she’s old news. Her only remaining fans are gay men, as is the case with Madonna and Cher.