Following the horrific events in Newtown, CT on December 14, radio stations were quick to yank Ke$ha‘s “Die Young” from rotation, for obvious reasons. Soon after, K$ tweeted that she was “forced” to sing the now-controversial lyrics and initially objected to using them. Lady Dolla today posted a statement on her website addressing the story.
“I was feeling a lot of emotion and sadness when I said I was forced to sing some of the lyrics,” she said. “Forced is not the right word. I did have some concerns about the phrase ‘die young’…especially because so many of my fans are young.” She added: “The point of the song is the importance of living every day to the fullest and staying young at heart.” Read her full statement below.
Ke$ha’s statement on “Die Young” following the Sandy Hook school shooting:
After such a tragic event I was feeling a lot of emotion and sadness when I said I was forced to sing some of the lyrics to Die Young. Forced is not the right word. I did have some concerns about the phrase “die young” in the chorus when we were writing the lyrics especially because so many of my fans are young and that’s one reason why I wrote so many versions of this song. But the point of the song is the importance of living every day to the fullest and staying young at heart, and these are things I truly believe.”
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Don’t blame Ke$ha. It’s just unfortunate for the “deep” lyrics to become inappropriate after the Newtown shooting tragedy. I think that Ke$ha had no clue what’s coming. She now does not need to find any excuse or explain why she sang the song. She’s just “young” with powerful voice, a perfect “candidate” to sing the “prophecy”. Her stunning performance with skulls, drum beats that overwhelmed other performances at the AMA might have been a loud warning call. But who in the audience knew about Newtown a month later to heed her call? Why is Google map showing the route from NY to Newtown looking like a hook as if Sandy turned Sandy hook after NY? Will the “hook” complete itself? It’s all speculation at this very moment. Read Nostradamus’ poems. It took many years to match his words to world events, well after the fact. There are other godly good songs to that actually matched major events before they occurred. Again, they matched only after the fact. For examples: Nena’s 99 Red Balloons told us about 9/11 “Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it’s red alert There’s something here From somewhere else The war machine springs to life … In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenier Just to prove the world was here …” Willie Nelson’s City of New Orleans “knew” about Katrina “And rolls along past houses farms and fields Passing trains that have no name and frightyards full of old black men. And graveyards full of rusted automobiles Good morning America how are you? … Half way home we’ll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea
And all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream …”
Why . Her SOng is so Awesome
Hate that ugly sluut
Her song is full of Satanic imagery like upside down crosses and human sacrifices suggesting that she quite possibly may want you to die young.