Ke$ha: Classic or Dud?

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.

I dig Ke$ha - it's like Rayanne Graff being voted prom queen.

― solid yet bouncy (herb albert), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yea i wouldn't give her that much credit

i saw her on snl and there were aspects that reminded me of Avenue D and others that were GaGa, but she was like a cheaper, less confident version of each and I don't like those people to begin with.

I knew a kid who came to the high school talent show in Adam Ant make-up and sang a karaoke version of a pink song. Some people called him fag, most just felt embarrassed for even being in the same room. That's about how I felt on Saturday.

i just thought it was retarded and funny.

ugh i haven't seen this shit, do i have to

the "tik tok" performance is honestly sad -- not sure how anyone could think otherwise -- it's not even self-conscious enough -- middle school talent show is about right...

the second performance is whatever

she was like a cheaper, less confident version of each

that's pretty much it right there

oh LOL it's not THAT bad, it's just like, hi it's me in a cape singing my ok song (!!)

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

― la senora (surm), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

goes pretty big on "blow my speakers up tonight," no? the rest of the album suffers from this, though. it's sad, you can hear them trying to pull of these blasting pop chorus but it never really gets there.

ramzi :D

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

― la senora (surm), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

if this is about "your love is my drug" it's otm -- i was definitely thinking... "this is trying to be massive... it feels massive... but it's just kind of flat..."

i hated that song the first time i heard it, and yeah, it is kind of tepid, but i like it

"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