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I’m Kind of Obsessed with This Ke$ha Chick

December 28, 2009
Evil Beet
Ke$ha
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I thought about writing a story bringing you all up-to-date on the Charlie Sheen domestic violence business, but, ya know, I’m already over it. Here’s the summary: They’re both drunks and he’s still a jackass. More here if you care.

Instead, I’m going to write about this Ke$ha chick. I hadn’t heard her first single, “Tik Tok,” at all until I came out to Scottsdale in the beginning of December. But they play it, like, every other song on the stations out here, and I know that should annoy me, but instead my love for it grows deeper with every play. Her full album comes out in January, but you can listen to most of her other tracks on YouTube. I don’t know much about her, and I think it’s unbelievably declasse to spell your name with a fucking dollar sign, and she’s terribly unnatural on camera, and this is one of the worst music videos I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching, but I’m really into her music. Wikipedia told me she’s been working with Max Martin, who produced a lot of Britney Spears songs, so maybe that’s why I love it so much. But I just wanted to share my love for this song and let you all tell me what terrible taste I have in music.

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  • well beet, except for my inability to write with your panache, i could have written that post. i feel exactly the same about her and it has kind of been freaking me out. somehow i feel better knowing i’m not in the boat alone. thanks.

  • Everybody sounds “awesome” with the magic that is Auto-Tune. I really don’t know how this constitutes as music. Now I know everybody has different tastes, but really? This is pure and utter shit. Yeh.

  • man this is like my new party in the usa. i hate it but love it at the same time. at least she is less annoying than miley. im claiming this as an upgrade for me.

  • I adore her music too – her other tracks are much better than Tik Tok, and I can’t wait for her CD. As for it being in bad taste… Eh, we all have our guilty pleasures. She makes good pop music, and besides, I’ll just stick to the belief that all my Beethoven, Lady Gaga and Imogen Heap tracks on my iPod will balance out Kesha’s. :)

  • What I don’t understand about this video is why she appears to be in some kind of south american crack den at the end. WHAT. It was all fun and games until we found out the entire thing was some kind of junkie-dream.

      • “she appears to be in some kind of south american crack den”

        no? baby, South America is way more than that. WAY. Try visiting. Or just keep believing you’ve heard about the world. I’m not from there but I love it. And that is insulting, and pretty stereotypical.

  • I won’t beat you up since you did it yourself. But you’ve been sucked into the modern version of bubblegum music…and a fine state it shows we’re in too.

  • yeah, it’s terrible. auto tuned within an inch of it’s unlife and she has the presence of several slices of spam that was left out on the porch for a few weeks.

  • I like when she says that she kicks the boys to the curb “unless they look like Mick Jagger.” Really, you kick them to the curb unless their face looks like a funhouse mirror reflection gone awry? OH BY THE WAY, Mick Jagger is her FATHER..so that’s..gross..

  • As much as it pains me to love this horrible song, I totally do! I find that I just can’t change the station when it comes on. It reminds me of the “Cars That Go Boom” song from the early 90s. Yes, I’m aware, this makes me a total conformist pop-music-loving loser, but I’m ok with that.

  • It is honestly one of the worst songs I have ever heard. The way she says all her words grinds on my nerves.

  • I’ve never heard more than the first ten second of this on the radio.
    Since she is cute – I did get through the first THIRTY seconds of the video.
    Thanks Beet for the link. Now, I know who does this song that I hate! :)

    Best in 2010!

  • Oh for the love of Pete. This made my ears bleed rivers. At the beginning it sounded like we were about to have a Lady Gaga knockoff but Lady Gaga at least has the vocals to back it up. This chick is like a blond Snooki trying to sing.

  • Oh, sweetie, no… Just, no. The first 30 seconds says it all: upper-middle class girl, all perky and blonde and Taylor Swift-ey and she’s going to be “bad” so she’s not going to a university. Instead, she’s going to stay home and work at Olive Garden and go out at night to the seedier parts of town and it’s going to be fun and ironic and bother her parents (I know, I’ve been there). That’s all this song is, a very safe, very white girl trying to be bad without actually being bad (it alienates the suburbanites) which is fine in a Miley/Britney/Christina kind of way. It’s a fun (?) musical (?) diversion (I guess) and it’s utterly terrible and you all know it.
    I just want to take her home, wash her, dress her properly in her Hollister clothes and send her back to class.

  • I blame shit music like this for the downfall of society. Anyone that would label this anything other than the crap it is should be made chemically infertile to save the planet from more stupidity.

  • I really like this song. I liker her other stuff too. Witty, danceable, tracks. NO she’s not the best, but def better than Smiley…not a Gaga, but ok. I think she is clever and good in a club way. Makes you want to move….

  • uggh i hate to admit it but i like this song too…but the video is terrible, she could have done so much more with this song! And she’s wearing AD jewelry from my fave clothing line…aww sh*t

  • I’m with Beet on this one. It’s a fun dance track. Not to be confused with “good” music, but I would absolutely work out to this.

  • Ah! I love this song. I can’t believe KeSha’s a little blond thing, though. I did not envision her looking like that all. Love the other songs I’ve heard from her too.

  • just got her new album animal!

    love this song and all the others!!!

    the lyrics r really trashy though……..