She says she pushes away the guys unless they look like Mick Jagger. The boys are “touching her junk.” I don’t think this usually means what she thinks it means. What? Glasses? Why is that in such a hard-core party song? And she’s not wearing them in the video.īrushing her teeth with a bottle of jack doesn’t seem like something somebody who cares a lot about her appearance would do. One of the first things she does is put on her glasses. There are a lot of times in the song where she says something that’s just wrong or odd or off or a little bizarre. This is a weird song with lots of weird moments, and the catchy is in the weird. “Tik Tok” has few hidden virtues, but one thing it does have that doesn’t appear up front to be as important as it is in practice is how weird it is. Everything is right out there in your face, even when it’s complex. There isn’t much about “Tik Tok” that is mysterious.

Luke and Max Martin, create catchy with blunt instruments. Ke$ha, and more importantly her producer/songwriters/mixers Dr. Read the “stickiness” chapter of The Tipping Point if you want to know more about the efforts various businesses and educators have made to try to master “catchy.” Bottling “catchy” means making Sesame Street in a laboratory. Bottling and settling “catchy” is lucrative business, because very few people can actually do it well and consistently. In many cases, “catchy” seems a difficult thing to parse. In other words, don’t be a hater ( Again! Again!)Īh, there it is! There’s the important one! I knew I started this post for a reason! Luke and Max Martin for the rest.īut yeah, Ke$ha’s music is thoroughly commercial. Comparing her to Lady Gaga is also kind of off – Lady Gaga is a performance artist, whereas Ke$ha is a recording artist. Comparing her to Taylor Swift, which I’ve heard and read a lot, is kinda silly, except that neither one is an especially great singer. People look past this sometimes because she’s a young white woman, but it explains her MC/DJ vibe and lack of vocal virtuosity. She’s as much of a rapper and “hype girl” as a singer. Ke$ha’s beats and mixing are pretty interesting at times. She doesn’t sing very well, her songs are kinda crap, she’s too heavily autotuned, etc. (I know I can already hear the collective moans of disappointment from the OTI readership). That notwithstanding, I’m going to save the third-wave feminist critique of Ke$ha for another time. Ke$ha’s just doing stuff male rock and rap stars have done forever, but kicking up dust because she’s a woman.

I don’t particularly like using words like “skank” or “slut” for anyone. Yeah, she threw up in Paris Hilton’s closet and palled around with Flo Rida without being paid for it (and I don’t know if this was sexual at all). Judging her fictional or real persona in these terms could be potentially interesting, but it would probably get tired real fast. It takes a lot of time and money to look that bad in precisely that way her mom is one of her songwriters she’s not Amy Winehouse. This is, of course, the point she’s not doing this by accident. Heavy drinking, sleeping around, looking like a slob, etc. Talk to a bunch of folks above the age of 16 about Ke$ha, and if they know who she is at all, they tend to volunteer information along a few themes:ĭon’t hate the player, hate the game. Tonight, I’mma fight ’till you see the sunlight! What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?Īnd when it wakes up in the morning, why does it feel like P. What sort of song evolves in this environment? Popular music faces a very hostile environment these days – sales are way down, noise is way up, and getting a single anything to last in the popular conscious for more than an afternoon is a herculean feat.

It’s about adapting to hostile environments. There is nothing inherently better about a rabbit that is white in the winter versus a rabbit that is brown in the winter.Įvolution is the product of things that survive and breed. Evolution doesn’t mean that at all it isn’t normative. People often erroneously assume evolution is like progress. Let’s court controversy.īut remember what evolution actually means. I’m not going to say that Ke$ha is the next evolution of pop…Įh, why not, I’ll say it, whether it’s really true or not – “Ke$ha is the next evolution of pop.” I sorta did anyway already.

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