Ke$ha and Foster The People may not have pulled the trigger on the guns that killed 20 children and 7 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, USA, but they're paying for it after their songs got yanked off the airwaves after the shooting.
Watch Foster the People's video below:
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has raised a whole rash of reactions to anything remotely close to the unfortunate event. Songs like Ke$ha's "Die Young" have had to be yanked off the airwaves because they reminded people of children dying.
Ke$ha's song "Die Young" (originally enjoying immense airplay and downloads prior to the Sandy Hook Shootings), was unceremoniously yanked off from major airwaves in the US after the shootings. When the shooting happenend, OAPs and Radio DJs in Radio Stations all over the US began to play less and less of the song, until they finally yanked it from a huge number of radio playlists.
I personally had issues with the song even before the tragedy. I felt it was too carefree and implied a lot of freedom to indulge human excess. . .
I was right, 'cos after Sandy Hook, party rocking American youths who'd been shaking their booty to "Die Young" now wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
Now Ke$ha has come out to say she never wanted to sing the controversial lyrics in the song, even though she was listed as one of the writers of the song. She said, "I had my very own issues with 'Die Young' for this reason. I did NOT want to sing those lyrics and I was FORCED TO"
For the record, the lyrics of the song we're talking about include, "Let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die young; We're gonna die young; We're gonna die young!"
Wow! Not your typical sing-along song after 20 kids have been gunned down. Anyway, Ke$ha hasn't given any reasons why she was forced to sing the lyrics and who forced her.
When things are going great for us, we take the credit, but when they blow up in our faces, we blame someone else. . . or the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Next came Foster The People, whose song, "Pumped Up Kicks". . . a personal favourite of mine - I'm ashamed to say - will not be getting any airplay whatsoever in the wake of the Newton shooting. . . at least on LA's #1 hit music station.
It seems the station has completely pulled "Pumped Up Kicks" from its rotation after the shooting. The group's frontman, Mark Foster said the song was written about a psychotic, homicidal youth to help bring
awareness to gun violence in schools -- and was partly inspired by the Columbine tragedy.
*sigh* Such noble thoughts that hit the mark spot on.
For the record again, this is the chorus in the song we're talking about: "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun / All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, faster than my bullet."
Once again, I can see why it would be an inappropriate song in the wake of the massacre, perhaps even more so than Ke$ha's song.
We wonder if these events will cause Americans to finally beam a searchlight on the lyrics in their songs, and how many other songs on the airwaves right now will receive the status of pariah as an after-effect of
the Newton Elementary School, Connecticut Shooting.
Americans. . . It's your play.
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