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Originally Posted by Zee

Not really - they had careers and then people found out they were sex offenders/potentially sex offenders. R Kelly was more or less found out at the start of his career but people have continued to buy his music and while I don't necessarily think that's okay, it just makes me wonder why people are suddenly kicking up a fuss now when he recorded a feature on a song in 2013 with a raunchy music video when the time for backlash was about 15-20 years ago. Oh well. If it suddenly led to him being convicted and thrown into jail then it'd be fair enough but to me it just seems a bit... misplaced.

Everything that got a lot of media attention a few weeks ago was all just recycled news and documents from the 90's, it won't be suddenly getting him convicted or thrown into jail because it's all the exact same stuff the jury dealt with when they found him not guilty 6 years ago.

The reason it all came back up now is because this is the first time he has had that crossover success into the general public and media for a few years now.. He hasn't done things like Saturday Night Live, AMAs for a while now (he usually doesn't even bother showing up to award shows when he is nominated, even the Grammys), or collaborated with those big white stars since the 90's (gaga, bieber). Then when he released his new album a few weeks ago he promoted it with interviews on chat shows aswell as performances (when since the mid-2000's he hadn't gave TV-interviews).. So you could say that he was starting to do a u-turn and get back out there, probably winning more people over, and then some journalist that has been obsessed with him for years realizes that all his **** for the past 15 years hasn't worked and releases all these documents over again and into the public.

As for the song, I'm going to assume anyone involved in the music business knows about his past and considering the actual topic and meaning of the song it is a bit stupid for Gaga or her label to suddenly have a problem with anything.