Radio stations all over the U.S. have pulled Ke$ha’s hit song “Die Young” and Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” to show sympathy with the families affected by the Newtown, Conn. massacre last Friday.
“Sandy Hook is 11 miles down the road from us,”Rich Minor, the program director and morning host at WDAQ-FM in Danbury, Conn., told the Hollywood Reporter. “We’re letting people grieve.”
Ke$ha’s “Die Young” has recently taken the third spot on the Billboard 100 chart, but radio DJ’s from the East Coast to the West Coast halted playing the song after December 14, because of the song’s title and lyrics, “We’re gonna die young.”
Ke$ha is not bitter that her song has intentionally been removed from radio playlists, and the pop singer actually sent this understanding tweet Tuesday.
I’m so so so sorry for anyone who has been effected by this tragedy.and I understand why my song is now inappropriate. words cannot express.
— ke$ha(@keshasuxx) December 19, 2012
Radios stations also pulled Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” which spent eight consecutive weeks as No. 3 in 2011, for it’s violent lyrics. Without listening to the lyrics the song sounds peppy, but it’s actually describing a school shooting where “all the other kids with the pumped-up kicks…better run, better run, outrun my gun … better run faster than my bullet.”
The group also hasn’t expressed frustration that their song has lost airplay and the group’s official account has been nonstop tweeting about the Sandy Hook shooting and gun control since the Saturday after the massacre.
Donating $ will help these families endure all the unexpected costs that come with death, but prayer will help in ways we can’t imagine.
— Foster The People (@fosterthepeople) December 16, 2012
Watch both music videos below.
[http://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48]
[http://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48]
