Kesha Rose Sebert (pronounced as Kesh-uh, born March 1, 1987), is a singer/rapper known by the mononym of Kesha (2009-present) (stylized as Ke$ha). Kesha was born in Los Angeles, but raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her breakthrough single came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single "Right Round". She wrote songs for Miley Cyrus, The Veronicas and worked on "Lace And Leather" for Britney Spears before she hit the big time. Her debut single, "TiK ToK", and album, Animal followed shortly afterwards in 2009 and 2010 respectively. Later, she released an EP, Cannibal, which featured successful songs such as "We R Who We R", "Blow", and "Sleazy". She currently finished the Get Sleazy Tour then released a second album.Her Signature Style can be roughly summed up as Retraux-styleSynth Pop with tomboyishlyrical themes and Auto Tune up the wazoo.
Anti-Love Song: 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), Die Young (Break up with your lover to come with me).
Break Up Song: "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes", "Blind", "Kiss N Tell", "Hungover", "C U Next Tuesday", "Last Goodbye."
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She plays the part of a airheaded spacecase in interviews, but behind it is an intellectual singer-songwriter from a musical family.
From an interview with The Times: "Everyone's really offended by that. But come on, brushing your teeth with Jack Daniel's: what girl does that? People are like, 'Do you really advocate brushing your teeth with bourbon?' I'm like, 'Yes, actually, I do, every day, for everybody. Especially eight-year-olds.' I mean, what are you talking about? Of course I don't. Come on."
Disappeared Dad: Grew up in a single-parent home and doesn't know who her father is (or whether or not he's still alive)
There are some epileptic tree theories that John Travolta is her father, based on some photo comparisons and some facts like that her mom was a singer/songwriter in Los Angeles at the time of her conception.
Europop: It's often discussed on a certain group of British radio stations.
Era-Specific Personality: 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 here, as well as in The Barbie Diaries as "Invisible".
In an Entertainment Weekly article, she professed to "the healing power of glitter" as a hangover cure. Not to mention her eye makeup on the page photo.
The video for "Take It Off" turns into a multicolored glitterfest by the second half. It is literally just rainbow clouds of glitter flying around the screen while people dance.
Averted on her CD, which is mostly sparkle-free.
Fanservice: "Take It Off" and "Your Love Is My Drug".
Gender Flip: "Blah Blah Blah" was written as an inversion of all the rap songs that objectify women — the entire song is about her telling guys to shut up, strip naked and have sex with her.
"Kiss N Tell" and "Thinking of You" both call a man a slut for sleeping around, and in "Grow a Pear" inverts "Females are the weaker sex" arguments
Hard Drinking Party Girl: The song "TiK ToK" is basically about waking up hung over, getting drunk, heading out to the club, and getting more drunk.
Hey Lets Put On A Show: 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.
Iconic Outfit: Not applying to Ke$ha, for once. The green lurex bikini top worn in the video by the brunette dancer/DJ girl in the video for "We R Who We R" during a scene which features advertising for plentyoffish.com. This shows how popular Kesha's influence on fashion is.
The Illuminati: More subtle than Lady Gaga or Rihanna, but the symbolism is still there, mostly in regards to her eye-makeup.
"Die Young" fully embraces it in typical Ke$ha style.
In Memoriam: "We R Who We R", which was a dedication to the gay teen suicides in 2010. Even more poignant in the music video, where she tosses herself off of a skyscraper.
"Party At A Rich Dudes House", "Your Love Is My Drug" and C'mon.
"Supernatural" is about having sex with a ghost. Word Of God claims that the song's based off a true incident—although considering Ke$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.
"Dirty Love" deals with the no-strings-attached side of sex ("All I want is your dirty love"), with Iggy Pop's verse dealing with the primal, "everyone does it" aspect.
The Lad-ette: At least it's what the lyrics indicate.
Letting the Air out of the Band: The song "Tik Tok" uses this effect on the word "tipsy", appropriately enough, as well as the final "shut us dooooown". She uses it a lot in her music, to "Self Bleep" herself and such.
Now that the album is released, it's better to say that she split it between heavy dance tracks for half of the album, and then mood whiplashes us into the cock-rock out of nowhere with the help of Iggy Pop. And it is glorious.
"So, I grabbed the bear by the throat, looked him right in the eyes, and I said 'Bear, you have 'till the count of zero to put some pants on and to apologize to the President.' And, um…that's the story of how I was elected to the Parliament of Uzbekistan."
Obfuscating Stupidity: The girl was in marching band, attended Cold War history classes for fun, and had near-perfect SAT scores. There's no way this isn't an act on some level. She says herself it's fun.
Odd Friendship: With Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, who said that he wants the two of them to become 'BF Fs.' Sure enough, she's one of the featured guest vocalists (in the first track, no less) on their newest album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. Not to mention that he'll be working with her on her new album.
"Blah Blah Blah" could be seen as a parody of the "pop princess genre" — alternatively it could be parodying the rap culture of objectifying women, or objectification in general, or...
Running Gag: The 'bottle of Jack' used to be a running gag. Now it's glitter, which she is obviously aware of.
Refuge in Audacity: She's been described as "the degenerate Hannah Montana"; whereas other pop artists would deny their crude, party-girl image, she completely embraces it (just watch the video for "TiK ToK") in what she calls "the war on pretension".
Smarter Than You Look: Go back into her pre-party girl days and you get a deep and incredible musician, also her idea to lampshade general party culture and still have fun with it is brilliant.
She Cleans Up Nicely: On her performances and promotional pictures, she's always as dirty as possible. Other◊ times◊, it's possible to see why Maxim put her on their "Hot 100" list.
Stephen... I'll knit you a sweater. I wanna wrap you up... in my love... forever. I would never let you go, Stephen. I'll never let go.
Stealth Parody: Based on her website, 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.
Spiritual Antithesis: Out of the world outfits, ideas, and creepy videos which in some degree don't make much sense, obsessed with partying, rebellion and 'fame', with a higher message, and lampshades various pop star expectations and then uses those tropes to their highest degree (Lady Gaga)...Except she does it for fun, is out there cuz she parties and she knows it, just does her thing and has not made herself the official spokesperson for any particular social group and just wants us all to have fun and love one another. Stealth Parody elements are more within Kesha's choices then Gaga's too.
Spiritual Successor: Easily fits into Britney Spears shoes, fun pop star, who likes to release cutting edge pop music with a more Be Yourself leaning, who wants to create epic stage shows and has some instrumental training/talent.
Surprisingly Gentle Song: Feels Like Rain, Invisible and of her album tracks "Wonderland", "The Harold Song" and "Animal".
"Blow", which starts with the line "So I grabbed the bear by the throat, looked him right in the eye, and told him 'you have until the count of zero to put some pants on and apologize to the president'. And that's the story of how I was elected to the Parliament of Uzbekistan." which Kesha tells to a pair of unicorns while drinking champagne. It then evolves into a club full of unicorn people and a laser gun fight with James Van Der Beek where the unicorn people bleed rainbows when hit with the lasers.
Suspiciously Similar Song: The first few seconds of "C'mon" are similar to those of Marianas Trench's "Desperate Measures". The similarities end there, however.
Take That: If you know anything about her history, it's hard to to see some songs like "Stuck Up" as anything but a Take That at Paris. More generally, a good third of her songs are Take That at either various stereotypes or her detractors.
Teacher/Student Romance: Hot for teacher variety in "Mr. Watson" to the Nth Degree. "Mr. Watson I want to get with you. I won't tell a soul what we're gunna do. Wanna get my hands in your khaki pants, teacher teacher whatcha gunna do, cause I am coming on to you."
Wave Motion Gun: Although perhaps not necessarily a real example, when seen with the explosion at the start or the Magic Missile Beam Spam earlier in the official video for Animal, it's hard not to see this towards the end when she lobs a giant pillar of light into the sky.
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