Deleted songs trying to re-download?

I had some music from CDs on my iPad and deleted them, but after a couple days, it showed them trying to redownload, but they can't because they aren't from iTunes and I can't delete them again, because they are still trying to download.... What do I do?

ios8user wrote:
Will this mess up iOS versions? I know that all of you here look down on those that upgrade to a beta iOS without being a developer, but I did... (hence the username)
It's not that anyone looks down on you, it's just that you have done something that the overwhelming majority of us have no experience with this and we might not be able to help because of that. I have no idea how this will affect your iOS moving forward. I have never downloaded a beta version of any OS whether for my Macs or my iOS devices. I do know that restoring to factory settings should restore the iPad to the most current public version available at the time that you restore.
Why on earth you would download a Beta version of the iOS and not create a current backup before you did, is beyond my understanding.

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so i have tried to duplicate the proplem you are having and here's the results, please if you want let me know if i have steered away again from what your problem is.
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