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Lady Gaga was told by her label to remove the song she penned about Princess Diana from new album ARTPOP, sources say.
The album, which is released tomorrow (Monday 11 November), was originally meant to include the song Gaga wrote as a tribute to the late Princess. However her label Streamline urged the popstar to leave it off the album as to not cause any controversy.
Even though Lady Gaga performed the track at Twickenham Stadium last year, in honour of Princess Diana, it is claimed that she has since expressed that she had better material in mind for the album.
“Lady Gaga was passionate about Princess Di and, though she admitted it wasn’t her best work, she still wanted it on the album," a source tells The Mirror. "But after the adverse reaction it got from fans in the UK when she sang it at her gigs last year, the record company bosses stepped in."
They added: "They persuaded her to remove it from the album to keep the peace. There is still a lot of emotion over Princess Di. Her death remains a very sensitive subject."
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In light of her new album, Gaga has also told of how she was high most of the time she was recording and heavily relied on smoking Cannabis during the last leg of her Born This Way Ball tour.
Explaining to Attitude magazine that it helped ease the pain after her hip surgery, "I was just numbing, numbing, numbing myself then sleeping it off, then getting on stage, killing it in pain, then getting off and smoking, smoking, smoking, not knowing what pain was."
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