Whitney Gulden
Unless you’ve been living in a hole for the past month you’ve heard the infectious bad girl anthem “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha on every radio station. With a sweet live performance on Ellen yesterday, Kesha proved that she isn’t all-electronic edits and has a voice of her own.
At the skilled hands of Dr. Luke, her executive producer under RCA Records, Ke$ha has risen to fame only to be perpetuated by the release of her highly anticipated debut album “Animal”. To listen in click here: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1 for a free listen on AOL Music.
Looking at the song list pre-order on iTunes right before Tik Tok hit the top tens with titles such as “Your Love is my Drug”, “Party at a Rich Dudes House”, and “Dinosaur”, it looked like a one hit wonder was about to happen. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Its been about 24 hours since the release and already claimed iTunes top album overtaking Lady Gaga.
Ke$ha has shown that her determination to break into the music world has paid off. After all, this is the girl infamous for breaking into Prince’s (or what ever symbol he’s going by these days) house to give him her demo. You know, she did vocals to Flo Rida’s hit “Right Round” too?
This isn’t a “hey all my bitches we rappin…we getting crunk…I’m so hotttt…you wanna be me at all the parties… get at me” album. There’s actual emotion in easily half the album that the non-partiers like me can relate to. Take the song Stephen that shows vulnerability in a girl who went on a talk show actually covered in glitter and eyeliner and rocked. “Stephen, why won’t you call me? I’m sitting here waiting, why won’t you call me? Stephen, I’m feeling pathetic, I can’t take rejection.” Whoever this Stephen is, he’s got Taylor Swift waiting at the phone too (ladies, he’s not worth it. But please keep writing songs about your heartbreak, we love them).
Another favorite is “Blah Blah Blah” featuring 3Oh!3 again showing the badass party girl image that “Tik Tok” sent with an addictive beat that has been stuck in my head this morning. “Hangover” gives still more insight into Ke$ha’s mind with the slower paced rhythm that shows some serious vocals singing, “ Now the party’s over and everybody’s gone, I’m left here with myself and I wonder what went wrong. And now my heart is broken, like bottles on the floor. Does it really matter? Or am I just hungover you?”.
I’ve got give Ke$ha some major credit it for adding more diversity to pop culture in her half rapped/half sung, half party girl/half emotional wreck lyrics that makes an album that grows on you.
