{"id":277860,"date":"2010-02-04T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91830"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:35:55","slug":"lady-gaga-%e2%80%9ci-was-never-supposed-to-do-%e2%80%98we-are-the-world%e2%80%99%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277860","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga: \u201cI Was Never Supposed To Do \u2018We Are The World\u2019\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/INFphoto_1104978-500x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lady Gaga\" width=\"500\" height=\"662\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-79216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Access Hollywood&#8217;s<\/em> Billy Bush on Thursday, pop sensation Lady Gaga set the record straight about recent rumors that she was supposed to participate in the star-studded re-recording of \u201cWe Are The World&#8221; for Haitian Relief &#8212; only to pull out at the last moment.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Bad Romance&#8221; crooner explained that while she was asked to lend her famed vocals to the 25th anniversary of the charity effort, she politely declined. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91830\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve actually been in rehearsal for my new tour, but I was never supposed to do \u2018We Are The World.\u2019 So that\u2019s a rumor,\u201d<\/em> Gaga told Billy.<em> \u201cI believe that they may have asked, yes, about it, but I was unable to do it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gaga says she&#8217;s already been more than involved in raising money for the earthquake-ravaged nation. She&#8217;s donated all the proceeds from one of the shows on her sold-out tour, and has been busy selling t-shirts for the effort via her Web site.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c&#8230;I\u2019ve been working on my own charity projects for Haiti. We\u2019ve raised over half a million dollars for Haiti already and we like to work specifically with charities that are based in Haiti itself,&#8221;<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI donated all of the proceeds from one show worth of ticket sales as well as all the of the merchandise from that show and for 24 hours we had a \u2018Gaga for Haiti\u2019 day where everything that was bought on the Web site\u2026 every dollar went to Haiti,\u201d <\/em>the star added. <em>\u201cWe\u2019re continuing to work on more projects and we\u2019re supposed to go to Haiti later this year for a show, which is very exciting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QgkDAlb08n0J1PnmXg4vRoSBPZI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QgkDAlb08n0J1PnmXg4vRoSBPZI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QgkDAlb08n0J1PnmXg4vRoSBPZI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QgkDAlb08n0J1PnmXg4vRoSBPZI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Access Hollywood&#8217;s Billy Bush on Thursday, pop sensation Lady Gaga set the record straight about recent rumors that she was supposed to participate in the star-studded re-recording of \u201cWe Are The World&#8221; for Haitian Relief &#8212; only to pull out at the last moment. The &#8220;Bad Romance&#8221; crooner explained that while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}