![]() The song launched the career of the 22-year old Kesha Rose Serbert. Kesha poses for a publicity shoot in 2010. The fake was simply another element of the individual to be embraced, owned, and recognized on the path to finding one’s true identity. (Or better yet printed across a Gucci handbag.) Authenticity was not as important as being yourself. Kesha was at the vanguard of a generation to who fake was not an insult but something worthy of being celebrated. It was there to start the party for a generation who would soon be juggling multiple internet identities and spending as much time-shifting through these altered realities as the world outside. And, no sooner does this arrive, it jumps again. Echoing the impatient click of the hands of an analog clock, ‘TiK ToK’ rings out the old and welcomes the new. ![]() The song reflects life in an altered reality of the internet – a space where seemingly anything can pop up, grab attention, and disappear, swiped away into oblivion no sooner than it arrives. Kesha’s vocals arrived auto-tuned, neither rapping nor singing. What sounds like guitars are synthesizers. ‘TiK ToK’ captures a feeling of unreality. It often tells its listener what is going on in the world long before anyone else, including themselves, can put a name to it. Great art reflects the life and pop is no exception. ![]() It spoke to its audience, summing up the moment in time and taking the temperature of the world around. Like any good pop single, ‘TiK ToK’ is not just a well-constructed song. Might as well just shave your head and hang out with me for the week.Tik Tok Started the Party for a Generation And with the recent "exposure" of the middle-class, stage school pasts of our most popular female singers (Pixie Lott, Marina), perhaps we've just become more used to pantomime naughtiness than the real thing.Īs Britney Spears's Fowley-esque former manager Sam Lutfi recently tweeted in a rare moment of insight when Ke$ha mouthed off about the former Mouseketeer, "Don't try to knock Britney Spears to try to make headlines. Thanks to riot grrrl, the success of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and tabloid thinking seeping in, the past 15 years have seen a shift, with popettes either given a relatively grungey makeover ( Avril Lavigne) or forced to rack up the faux-lesbian headlines ( Katy Perry). Parallel to the lineage of genuine bad girl pop stars whose lives have been given the proverbial airbrush treatment for mass consumption (Madonna, Debbie Harry, the Go-Go's), there's been a history of snazzy marketing to mythologize the rock star quality of the more vanilla female singers. Courtney Love surmised the shallowness of the tale, saying, "When I watched the YouTube of (her) I lost a little soul."īut it's not a new phenomenon. She has been an exemplary exercise in marketing: hoover up some underground sounds (Uffie, Princess Superstar, CSS), recycle them with the guy who wrote Baby One More Time, jerk out some rebellious tales, et voila! – one bad girl popstar is born. I'm not." Cancel the Jägermeister, make her's a lime and soda.Īround the same time, a leaked 2002 demo revealed Ke$ha as more of a Vonda Shepard fan sipping on Aqua Libra at the Lilith Fair, than a lush stumbling down Sunset Strip. I don't do drugs, but I think I'm a walking good time and I talk kind of funny, so people think I'm messed up all the time. ![]() I've gotten drunk before but never gotten a DUI. If you mean 'party girl' like at a club with a short skirt on with no underwear, then no. Questioned about her bacchanalian credentials, she told Billboard, "Am I a party girl? I'm having a party in this weird office, hanging out with you, totally sober. Scratch the surface, though, and it turns out things aren't so kerazee after all. ![]() She spends days wearing her placenta round her neck! She defaced the Hollywood sign! She puked in Paris Hilton's wardrobe! Oh Em Gee, she peed in someone's champagne bottle! Photoshoots show the singer on the lash, and we're regularly hit by news of her latest madcap WKD moment. The Valley Girl-who-couldn't-care-less persona has been a certified success: Tik Tok went Top 5 in the UK and stayed on top of the Billboard charts for nine weeks. It's the sound of an endless party in an autotuned package. The lyrics of her megahit Tik Tok splutter on to the sidewalk as Ke$ha swigs on beer'n'Jack Daniels, parties till the police come and generally channels the spirit of P Diddy. ![]()
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