Why no Ke$ha thread? There's only Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?, and that one is chock full of gushing praise like "a whistleheaded pop irritant" and "i'm not surprised by her list, i'm surprised people actually listen to this hideous music she makes." and "Ke$ha's like a giant pile of crap on Mozart's face." THIS WILL NOT STAND!!!
Because I'm listening to Ke$ha's Animal album right now and I absolutely fucking love it. People go on and on about all the new girl pop stars out there, y'know the Katy Perrys, the Lady Gagas, the Hannah Montanas, the Avril Lavignes, the whoever it was that sang that "touch my man again and I'm-a fuck you up" song, but Ke$ha just destroys 'em. Destroys 'em! But you know what this album REALLY sounds like? (clears throat) "The Crush" by Annie!! (That was the non-album single she did with the Go-Gos revival sound where she sang "She don't know where to beGINNNNN!!") Ke$ha, obviously realizing what an awesome song that was, decided to make a whole album of "Crush"es. And "Tik Tok" is a GREAT SONG, people! I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" in "Party at a Rich Dude's House." But what say you, ILM?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!"
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/70538/normal_headdesk_medium.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
And in the Def Leppard have-a-catchy-chorus-and-then-have-an-even-catchier-chorus-as-the-refrain department, I count THREE catchy choruses in "Tik Tok":
1. "Pedicure on our TOES!! TOES!! Tryin' on all our CLOTHES!! CLOTHES!!..."2. "Don't STOP. Make it POP. DJ blow my speakers UP. To-NIGHT..."3. "Oh oh oh OH!! Oh oh oh OH!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"Tik Tok" is a great song for sure, and i'm slowly coming around on "Your Love Is My Drug"
destroy the song about the jukebox
― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
SNRUB MOTIVATION 103
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-OY-MzG-I
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
tlc 'no snrubs'
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
actual lols @ the YouTube, but end existence
― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
But you know what this album REALLY sounds like? (clears throat) "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas!!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
oops HTML fail
y'know the Katy Perrys, the Lady Gagas, the Hannah Montanas, the Avril Lavignes
not familiar w/ any of these groups. i take it their bandnames are ironic?
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
2010's crop of GvB-approved lolwave groups
― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!" I love it when she goes "oh oh oh OH!! oh oh oh OH!!" and I love it when she goes "Nuh-uh-uh-uh nuh nuh-nuh! NUH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUHHH!!!!"
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks nice
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/y37d4.jpg
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Fucking brilliant.
http://avatarfarm.com/forum/forumimages/upsthisthreaddelivers.jpg
― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
k$h
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
J0rdan $.
― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr. $nrub
― ksh, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
dudes, i get that you don't like kesha but can you please step your game up? none of the posts in this thread have been at all funny, this is embarassing.
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m242/axiemeluv/Smiley/smiley_embarrassed.png
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Tik Tok actually. I think it's a decent pop song.
― fuckin' lame, bros (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
ok i giggled here, but that's it
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread can be nothing more than a cesspool of embarrassment, given the topic.
― Spinspin Sugah, Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
idk, i get image-bombing a thread like yesterday's but high-fiving each other while painfully humourlessly shitting all over a thread about a pop star with a recent #1 single stinks of not-the-kind-of-thing-i-post-on-ilm-for.
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it's what a Lady Gaga thread would've looked like 15 months ago. gotta let it simmer a bit longer before you can wait for the tl;dr analysis and epic cultural debates to warm up.
― nu bay deejoning (some dude), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
to be fair, it's a fucking mr. snrub thread
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm pretty much expecting that i'll like this album, i would listen to it sooner but i'm awash in albums that have leaked this week so it'll probably have to wait.
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a lot of animosity towards Kesha, not just here, I kinda get it and I kinda don't. Musically she's a lot like Katy Perry who hasn't been on the receiving end of nearly as much haterade so I assume most of it comes from the fact that she dresses like a homeless 90s club kid that makes people hate her so much.
Dinosaur is probably my favorite song off her album but minus that horrible horrible ballad it's pretty solid.
― musically, Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"waking up in vegas" is better than any ke$ha song but "tik tok" is miiiiiiiiiiles better than any other KP joint -- perry's voice is just insufferable imo, and yes i find boilerplate autotune to be more pleasing
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Kesha's joints are so stale it's like she has arthritis people. I mean come on.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
My big question for Ke$ha, if I ever receive the honor to speak with her, would regard the 200+ songs that were recorded during the 7-year period while she was recording "Animal." I need to know if there's any way I can have a copy of the 10 worst songs from those sessions as I'm sure this would be a remarkable CD.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
How do I get her management's contact info? I need this.
― billstevejim, Friday, 16 April 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHjNUORHpU
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Saturday, 17 April 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
If the dude on the left wasn't a douchebag, this would be funny.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 17 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
did anyone ever stop and think maybe WE are the aliens?
― lesley gorguts (latebloomer), Monday, 19 April 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly, Princeton Tiger. It's called a lavalier microphone. You can get a workable one for about $15. xxp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 April 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly!
― billstevejim, Monday, 19 April 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
is this ILM's entire Ke$ha chat?
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
It's sprinkled over several other threads as well; basically poke around at the female pop music threads and you're likely to see mention of her.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
basically poke around at the female
strategy for life
― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://awthum.com/2010/04/19/kesha-rips-off-how-i-quit-crack
― dmr, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
dud btw
― dmr, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
idk why people everywhere want to read "ke$ha chat" so badly. but since you ask
Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?
from here down on So, it's 11 days into 2010; what records are worth worth buying / hearing / downloading?
jukeboxing at http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1988
but come on she is neither good nor interesting!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
LOCK THREAD
― Yonder Mountain Zing Band (Tape Store), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― dmr, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i have heard a couple of songs of hers that i like a lot: Dinosaur and Backstabber. Tik Tok is ok
― la senora (surm), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
tik tok is kind of a top heavy song for me
this is nice
I’m honored to have this strong motherfuvkin woman choose to sing a song that’s so special to me. Slightly dying with happiness❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/sOxrRCGZB2— kesha (@KeshaRose) August 28, 2017
― maura, Monday, 28 August 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
what with the new taylor swift song being embarrassing, the door is still open for y'all over here on team kesha
― imago, Monday, 28 August 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
also what with kesha just being the superior person/popstar in just about every conceivable way
― imago, Monday, 28 August 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
I love thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5i7A2Bw89g
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Saturday, 23 September 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Record is really good too, agree with Brad that the country-tinged songs are the best.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Saturday, 23 September 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
damn. i have no idea what the country market is like, but i feel like she could have a hit with that. great selection on her part, gives me some of the same goosebumps as "praying" did on first listen.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 24 September 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
she's so good. i'm excited to see her next week
― maura, Sunday, 24 September 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
Praying has to become a karaoke classic.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 22 December 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
i do not want the people at my typical 'roke watering hole trying to sing it.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 December 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
(not cos of the song, but cos of the two off-key regulars who mistakenly think they're divas)
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 December 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link
seems kind of a downer for karaoke
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 22 December 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
welcome to the karaoke selections of off-key regulars
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 22 December 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
one of my exes goes to the same place I go on occasion and she has it in her head that she has a great voice so she sings slow, showstopping ballads by Celine Dion and other diva songs and so is so wildly off key as to render the songs incomprehensible.
I almost want to dare her to do this one to see what she does to it when the whistle note comes.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 December 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
this is exactly why Praying has to become a karaoke classic.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 December 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
Great performance, but the Grammys spinning Kesha's comeback (a triumph over the industry that tried to block her from making an album) as a victory FOR the industry was really gross
― Evan R, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
yeah, I got into this recap, but it's somewhat mindboggling how many people hosting/showcased/otherwise on the Grammys were JUST in the news for sexual harassment/predatory/general pustularity. and this is just the known ones.
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
(the ads against the Grammys were also weirdly retrograde: women fainting over Old Spice, women indulging in the sinful low-calorie offerings of Fiber One, the existence of Fifty Shades)
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
finally got around to listening to Rainbow. there's some really awesome stuff on there, huge surprise for me. didn't really like her older work for the most part. "Woman" and "Let 'Em Talk" are the showstoppers but there's several other good tracks here too
― Nhex, Friday, 6 July 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
a lot of (very redacted) depositions are out
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8472556/dr-luke-kesha-rape-katy-perry-lady-gaga-lawsuit-depositions
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
Kelly Clarkson has shot right up in my estimations since the story about the songwriting credits
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXz3qeYQP0A
― dyl, Saturday, 8 June 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
obviously better than a tidy ballad but I'm not 100% sold, to be honest, on pivoting to amanda palmer (musically)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 9 June 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
mm yeah i dunno
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
i am not into the corny cabaret sound of this song still applaud the audacity of making this rather unappealing song & the middle finger
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Trying to imagine a scenario where someone would request that this be played, and I just cannot. She coulda kept this in her diary.
― Cousin Slappy, Monday, 10 June 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
I can easily imagine people requesting this be played
(it's better if I think of it as a one-off/leak, like the dozens floating around during the animal/warrior years)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 10 June 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
yeah i could see this fitting fine into the sequence of an album.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
(in a late-period modest-mouse album kinda way)
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
new single "Raising Hell" with Big Freedia out tomorrow
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
i realized that i am very much kesha
on Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum: "I saw the movie and that was inspiring to me because, as a bum, I very much relate to that character."
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 October 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
"raising hell" kicks so much ass
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
wait what is the beach bum quote from?
― petey v, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
I'm kind of obsessed with the way she pronounces the word "couldn't" in the line "if you couldn't tell."
The trailer for her new album is great.
“Life is like driving across the country in a pretty small Astrovan, with your whole family in it, for 90 years. Because I think life is a vacation from where we go when we die.”
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
xp it was in entertainment weekly
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2iBrXVkRY
phenomenal songwriter
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGUnl7kEOw
this album is gonna be incredible
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
"don't circumcise my circumstance"
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 31 January 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
Bless you, Kesha.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 31 January 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
A great mix of classic club Kesha and conservational country Kesha. All the preview singles sound fantastic in context too. Probably a fraction overlong, but who cares, it's amazing.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 31 January 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
“birthday suit”!!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
the country-leaning songs here are so amazing that i long for a full country kesha record, but then it wouldn't provide me with the interdimensional bridge between all iterations of kesha that is "kinky"
only track i'd delete from this is "bff"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
‘Kinky’ and ‘BFF’ were both ones I’d lose tbh, but the rest are wonderful. The ‘Island in the Sun’-reminiscent intro has me fantasising a Kesha-Weezer super gig. ‘Tonight’, the title track and ‘Birthday Suit’ are immediate faves and I feel guilty for dismissing ‘Raising Hell’ earlier in the year what was I thinking.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
*intro of ‘Honey’
― tangenttangent, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I like this new album so much more than Rainbow tbh
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 1 February 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
my feelings on this album will hinge on whether there's a 'rainbow' or a 'spaceship' equivalent probably
― opden gnash (imago), Saturday, 1 February 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
i don't think either is present, but the album's offering other pleasures
maybe i love "kinky" bc it'd be a pretty sick k-pop song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
this album handles its pop moves better than rainbow (cf. the run from "tonight" to "honey" vs. "hymn" -> "praying" -> "learn to let go," the former is better to me on just a pacing level) but rainbow is still the weedier and weirder of the two? but then again high road has "the potato song," which seems to follow up on "rich straight white men" and take kesha further into the alt universe amanda palmer territory (which is fine with me, she's a good enough songwriter to pull it off) and then there's "father daughter dance" the most devastating thing she's ever put on a record? idk, both records are all over the place
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
i would prob think "bff" was ok if wrabel were deleted from it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
Relistening to this now and it's even better.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
new album out next month. I'm getting an If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power vibe from the two singles released today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG73hFraLig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1hecebh3Hc
― monotony, Friday, 28 April 2023 06:42 (eleven months ago) link