History Music / Kesha

!! Kesha and her work provide examples of the following tropes:

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In "TikTok" she says words twice. Such as "Pedicure on my toes toes. Trying on all our clothes clothes. Boys blowing up are phones phones!"

+ Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/ArcadeFire, Music/BeastieBoys, Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Blondie|Band}}, Music/BobDylan, Music/BritneySpears, Music/JohnnyCash, Music/{{The Damned|Band}}, Music/DinosaurJr, Music/FlamingLips, Fugazi, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/{{Madonna}}, Aaron Neville, Music/DollyParton, Music/IggyPop, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/TheResidents, Music/VelvetUnderground]

+ Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/ArcadeFire, Music/BeastieBoys, Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Blondie}}, Music/BobDylan, Music/BritneySpears, Music/JohnnyCash, Music/{{The Damned|Band}}, Music/DinosaurJr, Music/FlamingLips, Fugazi, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/{{Madonna}}, Aaron Neville, Music/DollyParton, Music/IggyPop, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/TheResidents, Music/VelvetUnderground]

Her debut album ''Animal'' was then released on the very first day of [[UsefulNotes/TheNewTens the 2010s]], and proved to be a similar success on the charts worldwide. After a string of additional hits ("Blah Blah Blah", "Your Love is My Drug", and "Take It Off"), ''Animal'' was re-released as ''Cannibal'', supported by the singles "We R Who We R" (which gave Kesha her second #1) and "Blow."

* LongTitle: "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes", "Party at a Rich Dudes House", "Only Wanna Dance With You".

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Pedicure on my toes, toes."
* DirtyOldMan: "Dinosaur" is about one.

* {{Europop}}: It's often discussed on a certain group of British radio stations.

* GayAesop: "We R Who We R".

* MisandrySong: "Blah Blah Blah" and "Boots N Boys" are the heaviest examples of this.

* NonAppearingTitle: "The Harold Song".
* OneOfTheBoys: Plays up to this.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Easily fits into Music/BritneySpears shoes, fun pop star, who likes to release cutting edge pop music with a more BeYourself leaning, who wants to create epic stage shows and has some instrumental training/talent.

Kesha's second album, ''Warrior'', was released in 2012 to middling success. During this time, she also teased a collaborative album with the Music/FlamingLips --titled ''Lipsha''-- which was ultimately canceled because of issues with her label and frequent producer Dr. Luke. In 2016, Kesha's long-running tension with Dr. Luke specifically exploded messily in the news, with claims that Kesha was legally forbidden from releasing new music because of it. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that's all we're going to say here]].

--->Oh, sometimes I pray for you at night\\

But some things only God can forgive

--->I hope you're somewhere prayin', prayin'\\

* RefrainFromAssuming: You know, the one where she sings about "The Glitter in My Eyes" or "DJ Turn it Up"?

+ Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/ArcadeFire, Music/BeastieBoys, Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Blondie}}, Music/BobDylan, Music/BritneySpears, Music/JohnnyCash, Music/TheDamned, Music/DinosaurJr, Music/FlamingLips, Fugazi, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/{{Madonna}}, Aaron Neville, Music/DollyParton, Music/IggyPop, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/TheResidents, Music/VelvetUnderground]

-->-- '''Kesha''', "Tik Tok"

* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: She very sweetly decided to put on a benefit concert to help the victims of the flooding in Tennessee. This act won her a lot of good karma back in Nashville.

* SurrealMusicVideo: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMwPcK0uIM&feature=channel Let]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUcJi6uE0ww me]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edP0L6LQzZE count]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_qa3Ohwls the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWX0hWCbng&feature=player_embedded#at=21 ways.]] To expand...

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUcJi6uE0ww Animal]]", which involves Ke$ha fighting backwards headed monsters in deep space and ends with a credibly impression of a WaveMotionGun.

* {{Corpsing}}: She cracks up at the line "Loosey as a goosey" in "Woman".

* [[FanNickname Detractor Nickname]]: In-universe. The video for "Blow" prominently features [[Series/DawsonsCreek James Van Der Beek]], who she calls "James Van Der Douche"

* AntiLoveSong: "Blah Blah Blah," (Basically a sex and leave song), "Dirty Love," (Just after sex again), "Thinking Of You," (I loved you, broke my heart but now I'm a star), and "Die Young" (Break up with your lover to come with me).

* GriefSong: "The Harold Song" is often falsely thought to be about the death of a former boyfriend, however this is not true.

* GriefSong: "The Harold Song" is about the death of a former boyfriend.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In "Timber", she sings the line "Let's make a night we won't remember / I'll be the one you won't forget."

* MisandrySong: Blah Blah Blah, and Boots N Boys are the heaviest examples of this.

** "Kinky" is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin being Kinky.]]

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak:
"I'm talkin' pedicure on our toes, toes/Tryin' on all our clothes, clothes/Boys blowin' up our phones, phones"

-Tik Tok

* ChekhovsGunman: Her family housed Creator/ParisHilton and Creator/NicoleRichie in a 2005 episode of ''Series/TheSimpleLife''; Ke$ha appeared as their "daughter who is really into music".

* EraSpecificPersonality: Before finding mainstream success with her auto-tuned party music, She was known as 'Kesha Sebert', whose music had a distinct indie/folk sound. One such example of her work can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u29qK84uvI here]], as well as in ''WesternAnimation/TheBarbieDiaries'' as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7BKJ2ozwg "Invisible"]].

** "Supernatural" is about [[BoyMeetsGhoul having sex with a ghost]]. WordOfGod claims that the song's based off a true incident--although considering Ke$ha, the seriousness behind that statement is in question.
** In the "Warrior Interrogation" video, Ke$ha admits that "Gold Trans Am" is about her "hoohah". Cars to vaginas? Close enough.

** "Kinky" is about well, being Kinky.
* InterspeciesRomance: "Godzilla" is about being in love and dating, well, Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.

* NewSoundAlbum: In [[http://www.freshyesh.com/post/kesha-in-this-months-rolling-stone/ an interview with Rolling Stone]], [=Ke$ha=] claimed that ''Warrior'' would be influenced by ''The Music/FlamingLips and Music/ArcadeFire.'' She also confirmed that it would be influenced by '70s cock-rock, and that she wanted to move pop into a rock direction with the album. It's better to say that she split it between heavy dance tracks for half of the album, and then [[MoodWhiplash mood whiplashes]] us into the cock-rock (and occasional ballad without Auto-Tune) out of nowhere with the help of [[Music/TheStooges Iggy Pop]]. And it is glorious.

* RefugeInAudacity: She's been described as "the degenerate Series/HannahMontana"; whereas other pop artists would deny their crude, party-girl image, she completely embraces it (just watch the video for "[[HardDrinkingPartyGirl TiK ToK]]") in what she calls "the war on pretension".

* StealthParody: Based on [[http://www.keshasparty.com/us/home her website]], [[http://www.myspace.com/kesha MySpace page]], intellect and public comments (she's said she doesn't take this very seriously), it's at least possible that Ke$ha's career is some kind of parody.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]FunWithAcronyms: I'll ''C U Next Tuesday''.