Ke$ha: Classic or Dud?

tlc 'no snrubs'

― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ok i giggled here, but that's it

this thread can be nothing more than a cesspool of embarrassment, given the topic.

idk, i get image-bombing a thread like yesterday's but high-fiving each other while painfully humourlessly shitting all over a thread about a pop star with a recent #1 single stinks of not-the-kind-of-thing-i-post-on-ilm-for.

it's what a Lady Gaga thread would've looked like 15 months ago. gotta let it simmer a bit longer before you can wait for the tl;dr analysis and epic cultural debates to warm up.

to be fair, it's a fucking mr. snrub thread

i'm pretty much expecting that i'll like this album, i would listen to it sooner but i'm awash in albums that have leaked this week so it'll probably have to wait.

there's a lot of animosity towards Kesha, not just here, I kinda get it and I kinda don't. Musically she's a lot like Katy Perry who hasn't been on the receiving end of nearly as much haterade so I assume most of it comes from the fact that she dresses like a homeless 90s club kid that makes people hate her so much.

Dinosaur is probably my favorite song off her album but minus that horrible horrible ballad it's pretty solid.

"waking up in vegas" is better than any ke$ha song but "tik tok" is miiiiiiiiiiles better than any other KP joint -- perry's voice is just insufferable imo, and yes i find boilerplate autotune to be more pleasing

Kesha's joints are so stale it's like she has arthritis people. I mean come on.

My big question for Ke$ha, if I ever receive the honor to speak with her, would regard the 200+ songs that were recorded during the 7-year period while she was recording "Animal." I need to know if there's any way I can have a copy of the 10 worst songs from those sessions as I'm sure this would be a remarkable CD.

How do I get her management's contact info? I need this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHjNUORHpU

If the dude on the left wasn't a douchebag, this would be funny.

did anyone ever stop and think maybe WE are the aliens?

srsly, Princeton Tiger. It's called a lavalier microphone. You can get a workable one for about $15. xxp

srsly!

is this ILM's entire Ke$ha chat?

It's sprinkled over several other threads as well; basically poke around at the female pop music threads and you're likely to see mention of her.

basically poke around at the female

strategy for life

http://awthum.com/2010/04/19/kesha-rips-off-how-i-quit-crack

dud btw

idk why people everywhere want to read "ke$ha chat" so badly. but since you ask

Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?

from here down on So, it's 11 days into 2010; what records are worth worth buying / hearing / downloading?

jukeboxing at http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1988

but come on she is neither good nor interesting!

LOCK THREAD

otm

i have heard a couple of songs of hers that i like a lot: Dinosaur and Backstabber. Tik Tok is ok

tik tok is kind of a top heavy song for me

If only someone would mash up Justice's "The Party" with Kylie's "Love At First Sight" .. Sounds like a hit to me.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/04/first-amendment-left-intact/

ok small point of order here:

On the broader question of what categories of expression should be put outside the First Amendment’s protection, Justice Alito argued that “crush videos” should not be shielded “because they are so closely linked with violent criminal conduct,” which itself gets no constitutional protection. He wrote: “The videos record the commission of violent criminal acts, and it appears that these crimes are committed for the sole purpose of creating the videos.” And, he added, Congress had before it “compelling evidence” that the only way to prevent the crime of animal cruelty was to target the sale of the videos — a perception that, Alito suggested, seemed to have been proven when the passage of the 1999 law led within a few years to destruction of the “crush video industry,” only to have it revive after the Third Circuit struck down that law.

i thought "crush videos" were entirely legendary??

tik tok is kind of a top heavy song for me

xpost: what does this mean, surm?

it means that the 1st verse is much more exciting to me than the 2nd verse, which just kind of floats away

Wait, so Ke$ha makes crush videos?

like, i mainly put it on to hear her say "clothes" and "phones"

the chorus is functional but not as ecstatic as it was probably intended to be, imho

is she dead yet?

i thought "crush videos" were entirely legendary??

― goole, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 5:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i actually saw one embedded in a "post this if you think this is wrong" myspace chain letter many years ago, no joke. it was a woman stepping on a puppy to death. maybe it was simulated but it didn't look like it was.

i didn't realize what it was until a few seconds into it..it was needless to say totally disturbing and soul crushing.

so...back to waking up and feeling like P Diddy

sole crushing

http://badbanana.typepad.com/weblog/images/2008/04/20/5.jpg

Beatweek readers are still offering widely split opinions on what to make of Kesha’s recent avant garde Saturday Night Live performance of Tik Tok and Your Love Is My Drug – but the sales charts say she’s doing just fine. Her debut album Animal, which was released in January and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Ten chart, has been catapulted back up into the top top, currently at #8. http://www.beatweek.com/news/4598-kesha-helped-on-charts-by-snl-performance/

Her metallic outfit and cape for "Tik Tok" and her black body suit covered in florescent paint for "Your Love" I guess constitutes avante-garde. Or maybe she's just going for a more MOR Lady Gaga approach.

aw jeez not "gaga is so edgy" again

maybe I'm just swayed by that influences list that annoyed Alex, but the visual stuff in her SNL performance just looked to me like a grab-bag of stuff you might get from, like, MGMT, Sia, Flaming Lips, old Daft Punk videos, etc.

(The performance struck me as terrible -- I like "Tik Tok" okay, I guess, and it just seemed like one of those moments where the pop star comes out seeming lifeless and silly and going-through-the-motions, totally unable to back up whatever feeling the recording created. Which is kinda embarrassing, since you could probably find someone in any given karaoke bar who could pull that song off better.)

It wasn't avant garde.. it was embarrassing. I felt bad for her. It looked like she was making a joke out of herself. Very awkward and uncomfortable.

Re: the Kesha music influences list.

It really isn't too surprising when you consider (and this culled from good friend Wikipedia) a) her parents are/were in the music business b) she's from L.A., specifically the Valley c) her family wasn't wealthy d) she was actually pretty studious and academic in high school

It really isn't too different from the filmmakers who grew up in the Valley, watched every movie at their local video store, and then later went on to have success as a director (Burton, P.T. Anderson, to name two)

Tik-Tok was straight-up Jean-Michel Jarre Rendez-Vous Houston steez, from the astronauts to the laser-harp. I dig Ke$ha - it's like Rayanne Graff being voted prom queen.

I mentioned "her family wasn't wealthy" because kids don't care to consume all that much from pop and entertainment's past i.e. do their homework, when they come from a wealthy entertainment background. xpost

Her music sounds like Uffie for people who shop at Walmart.

i really think you're on to something!

Beatweek readers are still offering widely split opinions on what to make of Kesha’s recent avant garde Saturday Night Live performance of Tik Tok and Your Love Is My Drug – but the sales charts say she’s doing just fine. Her debut album Animal, which was released in January and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Ten chart, has been catapulted back up into the top top, currently at #8. http://www.beatweek.com/news/4598-kesha-helped-on-charts-by-snl-performance/

Her metallic outfit and cape for "Tik Tok" and her black body suit covered in florescent paint for "Your Love" I guess constitutes avante-garde. Or maybe she's just going for a more MOR Lady Gaga approach.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:16 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sure is amazing how her SNL performances boosted her sales for the week that ended right before the performance. it was just that good!

lots of people also like heroin.

Ke$ha reminds me of myself at age 8 wrapping a towel around my back and talking about martians on Saturday Night Live.

Trying to imagine a scenario where someone would request that this be played, and I just cannot. She coulda kept this in her diary.

I can easily imagine people requesting this be played

(it's better if I think of it as a one-off/leak, like the dozens floating around during the animal/warrior years)

yeah i could see this fitting fine into the sequence of an album.

(in a late-period modest-mouse album kinda way)

new single "Raising Hell" with Big Freedia out tomorrow

i realized that i am very much kesha

on Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum: "I saw the movie and that was inspiring to me because, as a bum, I very much relate to that character."

"raising hell" kicks so much ass

wait what is the beach bum quote from?

I'm kind of obsessed with the way she pronounces the word "couldn't" in the line "if you couldn't tell."

The trailer for her new album is great.

“Life is like driving across the country in a pretty small Astrovan, with your whole family in it, for 90 years. Because I think life is a vacation from where we go when we die.”

xp it was in entertainment weekly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2iBrXVkRY

phenomenal songwriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGUnl7kEOw

this album is gonna be incredible

"don't circumcise my circumstance"

Bless you, Kesha.

A great mix of classic club Kesha and conservational country Kesha. All the preview singles sound fantastic in context too. Probably a fraction overlong, but who cares, it's amazing.

“birthday suit”!!!!

the country-leaning songs here are so amazing that i long for a full country kesha record, but then it wouldn't provide me with the interdimensional bridge between all iterations of kesha that is "kinky"

only track i'd delete from this is "bff"

‘Kinky’ and ‘BFF’ were both ones I’d lose tbh, but the rest are wonderful. The ‘Island in the Sun’-reminiscent intro has me fantasising a Kesha-Weezer super gig. ‘Tonight’, the title track and ‘Birthday Suit’ are immediate faves and I feel guilty for dismissing ‘Raising Hell’ earlier in the year what was I thinking.

*intro of ‘Honey’

I like this new album so much more than Rainbow tbh

my feelings on this album will hinge on whether there's a 'rainbow' or a 'spaceship' equivalent probably

i don't think either is present, but the album's offering other pleasures

maybe i love "kinky" bc it'd be a pretty sick k-pop song

this album handles its pop moves better than rainbow (cf. the run from "tonight" to "honey" vs. "hymn" -> "praying" -> "learn to let go," the former is better to me on just a pacing level) but rainbow is still the weedier and weirder of the two? but then again high road has "the potato song," which seems to follow up on "rich straight white men" and take kesha further into the alt universe amanda palmer territory (which is fine with me, she's a good enough songwriter to pull it off) and then there's "father daughter dance" the most devastating thing she's ever put on a record? idk, both records are all over the place

i would prob think "bff" was ok if wrabel were deleted from it

Relistening to this now and it's even better.

new album out next month. I'm getting an If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power vibe from the two singles released today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG73hFraLig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1hecebh3Hc