Ke$ha’s "Die Young" Reportedly Pulled From Radio Play After Newtown Shooting
Ke$ha tweeted: “I understand why my song is now inappropriate.”
2. The tweet came after a report on TMZ that said the song was gradually being taken off the air.
“The day after the shooting … airplay dropped by 3 million listeners … a sign that stations were slowly pulling the song off the air.
By Monday … “Die Young” took a huge hit on the radio … dropping down to 148 million listeners … a 19 million drop from what had been a pretty steady rotation before the shooting.”
3. Hollywood Reporter has a quote from a Ke$ha tweet claiming she was forced to sing the song’s lyrics:
“I had my very own issue with ‘die young’ for this reason. I did NOT want to sing those lyrics and I was FORCED TO. I’m so so so sorry for anyone who has been effected by this tragedy and I understand why my song is now inappropriate. words cannot express.”
The tweet has since been deleted.
Still, it’s unclear what long-term effect this will have on Ke$ha’s song or her album sales. (Clear Channel, which owns 850 radio stations nationwide, told BuzzFeed the company had no comment, and Ke$ha’s management at RCA Records did not respond to emails.) Last week, “Die Young” was near the top of Billboard.com’s Radio Plays List and Hot 100 List.
7. Charly1300, a site that tracks radio play nationwide has the song at Number 1 as of December 16th.
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RhiRiot 5 months agoObviously she doesn’t care that she’s being censored, so why should we? But seriously people, there were no malice in her people writing that song…people need to stop harping on things because they get reminded of something else. You don’t see anyone making a big deal over Leftover Crack’s Album title from 2004 (I’ll let you search that one and make your own judgement call) but I guess they aren’t too main stream enough to be considered “insulting”.
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- victoranon added Die Young to the mix about 5 months ago
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timothyd4 5 months agoThousands of children die everyday around the world. Wouldn’t you pull the song off the radio because of them if you have so much respect for dead children? or are these 20 children in particular special because news stations are gaining higher ratings through the exploitation.
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NippyBurns 5 months agoit was not pulled as it ‘may offend’ it was pulled out of respect. many of you don’t seem to be fully understanding that
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Kinglincoln 5 months ago
Is it too much to ask pop stars to know the difference between effect and affected?
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estellelar 5 months agoif they are going to pull this off might well pull the oh…like 20 (at least ) other songs that all have the live young mentality, this is silly imo :/.
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#Beautiful 5 months agoI think it’s ridiculous that this shooting has been politicized to the point that songs that were written and released long before the tragedy are being pulled off the radio. Come on! This song is about dancing and living like there’s no tomorrow, not a school shooting! Give these victims their peace and stop having knee-jerk reactions to every little thing!!
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