Ke$ha’s single “Die Young” was burning up the charts these past few months, but radio quickly pulled the song due to its sensitive content following the Newtown tragedy last week. Upon hearing the news, the singer took to Twitter to release a statement, saying she was “forced” to sing the lyrics and she didn’t really want to. Now she’s clarifying her original statement, since she knows that was a bit much.
Posted on her website, Ke$ha wrote:
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.
