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Ke$ha finally gets it
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111111After declining comment to various media outlets, Ke$ha has responded to the situation, saying her bit on Twitter.
"I'm so so so sorry for anyone who has been effected (sic) by this tragedy. and I understand why my song is now inappropriate. words cannot express," she tweeted.
Dec. 14, the day of the Newtown shooting, Die Young was the third most played song in the United States, with 167 million people listening to it across the country. By the next day, figures from Mediabase suggest that airplay had dropped so significantly that only three million people were hearing it on the radio.
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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 20, 2012 C1
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