Madonna‘s music has been banned “indefinitely” by a Texas radio station following her controversial speech at the Women’s March On Washington.
The icon shared her dismay at seeing Donald Trump become President during her speech on Saturday, saying: “I’m angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know that this won’t change anything.”
“We cannot fall into despair,” she added. “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?”
The singer later took to Instagram to defend her speech, explaining the “one phrase” had been taken “wildly out of context” and that she had spoken “in metaphor“.
Despite her efforts to rationalise the controversial speech, a Republican politician has called for the singer to be arrested, and now Texas station, HITS 105, has pulled her music from its playlists.
The station 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.”
The singer has not yet responded to the ban from HITS 105.
