Ke$ha: Classic or Dud?

cracked up at the pronunciation of "keh dollar sign ha" on SNL last night

I've been laying low cause I figured I wore out my Ke$ha-love welcome on the "worth it" thread, but she is SO CLASSIC. Here's my recent review at Burnside Writers' Collective. I quoted Lex and ILXOR! Also agree with Doctor Casino above, "I can't imagine wanting to hang out with her." And yet...

i get this weird canadian vibe from her

is it shaped like a maple leaf?

the johnny rotten and guns'n'roses comparisons make so much sense to me. they fucking suck too, and in similar ways.

nah it's like when i remember traveling to canada a long time ago and watching that Much Music station...i think they have to play a certain amount of canadian artists, so there were all these groups that totally seemed like popular artists but something was just...off...slightly

like they seemed like the mr.pibbs to the u.s. groups' dr. pepper....sorta like that robin sparkles character on how i met your mother

when i first saw ke$sha's video it seemed like canada trying to make a modern post britney/gaga/xtina/LA clusterfuck club scene type pop star

;_; I thought that was a pretty good vibrator joke

hahahaha i'm just dumb dude, don't worry

oh yeah Our Lady Peace, that was one of the groups i was trying to think of

i get this weird canadian vibe from her

I thought you were saying this because her voice she reminds you of "it's like Rayaaaaain onyer wedding day, it's the free riiiiiiiiiii--" type stuff

nah it's like when i remember traveling to canada a long time ago and watching that Much Music station...i think they have to play a certain amount of canadian artists, so there were all these groups that totally seemed like popular artists but something was just...off...slightly

at first i didn't know what you were getting at w/ the canadian thing, but now that you explain it like that, i think you're OTM. it like she's going through the motions of being a big artist, when she's not really at that point yet.

there's a show on much right now called "disband," where they take a canadian band, make them work with a songwriter/producer in order to prep a song of theirs for a performance. they play that song live in front of said judges (mostly industry reps), and then they are told whether or not they should remain a band. it's quite entertaining to watch, but the bands that "win" go on to minor successes, and now there are around 2-3 that are just bombarding the airwaves. it's awful, because all they did was win a contest, but because they're canadian, they get an amount of play on the radio and on tv that's on par with some of the biggest american acts.

Cancon, Canadian content -- that requirement, I mean, whereby a certain amount of Canadian acts have to be aired/broadcast.

borntohula otm.

wait tik tok was US number one for NINE weeks??

tik tok don't stop

they seemed like the mr.pibbs to the u.s. groups' dr. pepper.

Mr Pibbs has a wicked sour cherry flavour that's totally off the chain. Never had the original.

Oh, wait, was this thread about something?

i get the Canadian vibe too but assumed it was a deliberate meta-Degrassi 80s reference, like she's one of Dylan's slutty girlfriends from Fifteen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mzL56ZRXYc

o ffs

Simpsons lipsync tiktok

haha wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_qa3Ohwls

okay, so the song's kinda insubstantial but i'm finding it hard to hate on this - - can basically accept ke$ha as high school radiohead nerd that secretly believes her spirit animal is a mermaid from Yellow Submarine.

Ke$sha's like a MadTV version of a pop star

also she's tall

i like the elephant

All fartin hearts out its nose.

i really don't like kesha's voice i find that it makes me want to vomit

This is K-classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7QPCCwui8

kla$sic

I submit. As of now, I'm fully committed to Animal and Cannibal both, whenever I'm not halted by listening to "We R Who We R" on a loop.

so apparently I heard Tik Tok a million times last year but never realized it was Ke$ha. The chorus is irresistible but god CHICK QUIT FAUX-RAPPING U SUK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_CUYFODSk

this is one of the most aesthetically bankrupt mp3s of all time

Dunno, glitter on the floor is p hardcore.

feel sad for millionaires that their innovations were so quickly co-opted and sullied by mnstrmrs like k3$h

Ke$ha might be attractive if she didn't resemble Daryl Hannah's character from Clan of the Cave Bear

omg Take It Off is terrible. why would anybody think co-opting the generic snake charmer melody+auto-tune = a pop classic?

that song is just embarrassing. it sounds like a cut from the soundtrack to a disney channel original movie... or maybe nickelodeon.

really adore the class-war lyrics for "sleazy", particularly the following boast: WE TAKE THE DRINKS FROM YOUR TABLE WHEN YOU GET UP AND LEAVE 'EM

insane story here.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,741667,00.html

The "shouts" and "drops," the personal greetings from the stars, were as important as the money. The boy from Wesel insists that he never blackmailed a star, and so does Deniz. But the police are looking into charges of coercion, at least in the case of DJ Stolen. After all, he once bragged online that he had "blackmailed" singer Marques Houston, just like all the others who "sent me a shout." Now Deniz has changed his tune, saying that he was just showing off, and that none of it was true.

But how else is one to interpret what he wrote to US pop starlet Ke$ha? He also hacked into her computer, where he found photos of a breast operation, along with other photos that could destroy a career in the United States.

"Hey this is DJ Stolen from Germany. I just wanna let you know that i love you so fucking much," he wrote, adding that it would be nice to get a shout from her. Ke$ha apparently quickly understood how dangerous the situation was. This DJ Stolen had discovered her secret e-mail address, which meant that he might even have access to everything that was in her mailbox. Her response reflected her concern. Sure, she wrote, she would love to record a shout for him, as long as he didn't do anything with her private photos. "We should be friends," she wrote, adding: "i'll send you whatever drops as soon as you need em! What exactly do you want them to say?" Deniz A. replied: "Yo whatup you already know it's ya girl Kesha and I'm in love with my boy --- DJ Stolen." In return, he promised to keep her photos to himself. But just in case she tried to find him, he added, he had enough material to embarrass her in front of the whole world.

http://www.myspace.com/djstolenmusic/music/playlists/dj-stolen-s-playlist-1163758

HOLY FUCK

crazy, right?

great story, actually gives immense credibility to when artists/producers have claimed that their emails were hacked

artists/producers are gonna have to start sending each other beats/unfinished tracks on cassette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KwiO8s-hg

not sure how any scandal could destroy a pop star's career, isn't that basically the new launching point?

the pictures were of kesha eating puppies

Video for "Blow" is so monumentally great I think I want to die now.

link???

good to see one of these pop stars with a transparently ridiculous persona show that she's in on the joke. Awesome video.

http://tinyurl.com/63x58nn

She was pretty, er, incredible last night. Show involves everything from fake blood to penis costumes to smashing pinatas. Kids went batshit. I sat next to pretty heavy-hitter industry VIPs, who said the "heat" on Ke$ha was nuts right now. "Heat" being a euphemism for number of people trying to get tickets. But most of all she was having such a blast it was hard to hate on her. Oh, she sang, too. Dropped most of the autotune trickery live. Now, she doesn't have much of a voice, but at least she made an effort, and the songs were much less annoying live than they are on record. Encore was "Fight For Your Right to Party" rapped by a guy dressed like Santa while Ke$ha and her dancers smashed said pinata.