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Ke$ha Sets Record Straight: “Die Young” Not “Forced” On Me, But I Had “Concerns”

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2:31 pm, December 20th, 2012

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Ke$ha has clarified her apology for her hit song “Die Young,” which has been avoided by radio stations in the wake of last week’s shooting massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

On Tuesday, the singer tweeted that had been “forced” to sing the lyrics, even though she’d co-written the song, and said she was “so so so sorry for anyone who has been effected [sic] by this tragedy.”

She subsequently deleted the tweet implying that “Die Young” was conceived against her will.

On Thursday, Ke$ha posted a message to fans explaining her earlier remarks:

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.

What do you think of Ke$ha’s comments?

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  • http://twitter.com/nirvanaman_1985 sam

    She just can’t stop lying. She 1st said she wrote all of the song then said she didn’t write that part, then said she was forced to sign it then said she had concerns. Don’t believe a word she says.

  • sgos

    Still not understanding why she is even apologizing for it. From what I heard from the song it was about seizing the day NOT school shootings.

  • KashA

    BITCH!!! stupid lyrics

  • shea

    the fact that the song was taken off airways is really oversensitive. Pumped Up Kicks I can understand, since it is directly referring to violence and guns. Die Young is simply about living life to the fullest, there’s no negativity there.

  • Regina1180

    Maybe she meant to sing something else but the autotune turned it into “Die young”.

    The song is still terrible. Radio will start playing it again in about a week.

  • CDL CO

    Backpeddling never helped anyone’s career. Girl, bye. Had she released the above statement in the 1st place (without the opening disclaimer, obviously), things could have gone in her favor. That’s all I took the song for until she decided to duck & run.

  • jackalexandria

    so why lie in the first place?

  • Martina

    Why is this ‘zero nobody’ still in the news?!Her music is horrible, she has zero talent and no personality. Mass produced ” celebrity” like her, who are influence to young generation are worst then poison.

  • Megan

    I’ve always thought the song was dumb, but when I hear, I never think of the the massacre at Newtown. The song should have never been pulled for that reason. I think Kesha just made it worse for herself when she lied.

  • Mike Juliano

    she is 25 but the age demographic intended as listening paying consumers is 14, “target market” 14, ehmmmmmm 12 possibly, funny enough there are teenagers that can tell whats being done to or “for” them and that age group, their numbers however are relatively LOW! not to state adults are not brainwashed or droned out to commercialism, still, but people do either move away from the products, or migrate; but generally it forms a portion of the personality and perceptions, even motivations, socializing, intimacy but from my understanding this kind of music makes people eventually despondent and susceptible/malleable

  • Mike Juliano

    she is 25 but the age demographic intended as listening paying consumers is 14, “target market” 14, ehmmmmmm 12 possibly, funny enough there are teenagers that can tell whats being done to or “for” them and that age group, their numbers however are relatively LOW! not to state adults growing up with empty tunes dancing thru their heads are not brainwashed or droned out to commercialism either, still, people do as they age move away from the pop products, or migrate to a knew one(s); generally it forms a portion of the personality as the mind hears the music over and over and perceptions, even motivations, socializing, intimacy are affected from my understanding though this kind of music makes people eventually despondent and susceptible/malleable, as “when young” and “fun” impressions become lasting mentally, and memories are attached to the sonic experiences, before you read on I have a question did we ever find out if Tinky Linky was actually gay Teletubbie?

  • Lilyx0x

    YOLO… i agree, but you know there are a lot of people that are super sensitive and the radio stations didn’t wanna offend anyone.

    and i knew the song was not forced on her… -_-

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