After the unbelievable tragedy in Newtown, Conn., when 20 children lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary, Ke$ha’s latest Top 10 hit turned out to be grossly untimely – and the singer is the first to admit it. But is there also a breath of mystery to it?
Die Young, Ke$ha’s offending hit, didn’t mean anything too bad – it is about dancing, making merry and other stuff like “Let’s make the most of the night like we’re gonna die young.” Nevertheless, now it is out of rotation of a number of radio stations.
Asked by Billboard about the future of the song, Rich Minor, Danbury, Conn.,-based WDAQ-FM’s programming director, commented that they haven’t been playing Die Young since Friday; even worse, he was sure the song will be dropped for good. Notwithstanding the fact that the hit was quite fun and had nothing to do with dying, much less violence, “all people are going to hear right now is those two words in the title,” he said.
On December 18 Ke$ha came on the Twitter to express her attitude to the song’s extraction. She wrote she understood perfectly why Die Young sounds inappropriate these days and said it was beyond her to explain how sorry she was for anyone affected by the school massacre. Yet there was more to her message than just sympathy. “I did NOT want to sing those lyrics and I was FORCED TO,” wrote she. Now the message is gone; does this mysterious hint have anything to do with the message having been deleted?
