Texan radio station HITS 105 has pulled all Madonna music from its playlists after the pop music icon made a controversial speech during the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday, January 21.
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She said at the time: “I’m angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know this won’t change anything. We cannot fall into despair. As the poet W. H. Auden once wrote on the eve of World War Two, ‘We must love one another or die.’ I choose love. Are you with me?”
Madonna later took to her Instagram after the comments made headlines, hoping to “clarify some important things” and explained that the phrase about the White House had been “taken wildly out of context”, as she was speaking “in metaphor”.
Since then, a Republican politician has called for her arrest, and HITS 105 have banned her “indefinitely” from their station.
They told Billboard: “Banning all Madonna songs at HITS 105 is not a matter of politics, it’s a matter of patriotism. It just feels wrong to us to be playing Madonna songs and paying her royalties when the artist has shown un-American sentiments. If all stations playing Madonna took their lead from us, that would send a powerful economic message to Madonna.”
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