Lady Gaga given green light to sell new album in China, ending 3-year-long ban
Lady Gaga’s latest album will be released on the mainland three years after her music was banned for vulgarity. The singer’s third album Artpop is now available for preorder in China, more than two months after it reached the top of the US Billboard charts in November.
Lady Gaga’s latest album will be released on the mainland three years after her music was banned for vulgarity.
The singer’s third album Artpop is now available for preorder in China, more than two months after it reached the top of the US Billboard charts in November.
“I’m so excited!!!!” the 27-year-old pop icon wrote in a tweet last week. “The Chinese Government approved ARTPOP to be released in China with all 15 songs! Next I hope I can come to perform!”
While censors did not alter the lyrics of the songs released in China, the Chinese version of the album cover was altered to cover the singer’s bare legs with a pair of black tights, and a blue ball she was sitting behind was enlarged to hide her naked body. The title of the song Sexxx Dreams was also changed to X Dreams.
Online commentators unanimously voiced their dislike of the new cover, noting that it was the same as the version released in the Middle East.