Shocker: Ke$ha Admits She Wasn't Forced To Sing Die Young

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By Mack Rawden
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Ke$ha may have taken to her Twitter in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting and claimed she was forced to sing the lyrics to “Die Young”, but as most people suspected, that definitely was not the case. In fact, the pop star admitted as much herself in an abbreviated one paragraph message posted this morning.

Sounding off on the front page of her personal website, Ke$ha, or as Britney Spears calls her Key-$ha, said she fired off the tweet during a moment of anger and misrepresented the situation. Here’s a look at the entire quote…

”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.”

I don’t know why she didn’t just say this to begin with. In a way, that’s the entire problem with Twitter. Sounding off in 140 characters or less has a tendency to make people oversimplify what they’re trying to say, and from a certain angle, it can make the whole correspondence seem like bullshit. Given all the heightened emotions related to the Sandy Hook shooting, I’m willing to give Ke$ha the benefit of the doubt here, but something tells me plenty of other people won’t.

We’re all responsible for the art we put out into the universe. Nothing should be off limits, but if the phrase “Die Young” bothered Ke$ha so much, she should have rewritten it at the time.

Mack Rawden
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Mack Rawden is the Editor-In-Chief of CinemaBlend. He first started working at the publication as a writer back in 2007 and has held various jobs at the site in the time since including Managing Editor, Pop Culture Editor and Staff Writer. He now splits his time between working on CinemaBlend’s user experience, helping to plan the site’s editorial direction and writing passionate articles about niche entertainment topics he’s into. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English (go Hoosiers!) and has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of publications including Digiday. Enthusiastic about Clue, case-of-the-week mysteries, a great wrestling promo and cookies at Disney World. Less enthusiastic about the pricing structure of cable, loud noises and Tuesdays.