Singapore is pulling Janet Jackson's "Velvet Rope."
The singer's newest album was banned in Singapore this week because of three songs about battery and abuse, homosexuality and sexuality, The Straits Times reported Saturday.The album was to have been released Monday in Singapore but was banned by the Controller of Undesirable Publications, the newspaper said.
The paper said that the record label, EMI, was considering releasing a different version of the album in Singapore without the three banned songs.
The report did not name the songs.
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