Ke$Ha - Warrior - *** the HEADLINE Needs to Be Creative and Have by Rob Sheffield Rolling( Stone Magazine, Dec
Ke$ha - Warrior - *** The HEADLINE needs to be creative and have By Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone magazine, Dec. 4, 2012) your opinion. This doesn’t have one. Yours must. Ke$ha was born to be a rock star. She's a disco queen who dresses like Axl Rose and overdoses on personality like the New York Dolls. She rules pop radio with her megasleaze boombox beats, junk-shop rags and bleached-Sabbath hair. We all know glitter girls who dress like Ke$ha, talk like Ke$ha, party like INTRODUCTION - There are opinions Ke$ha and slap the world around like Ke$ha. But it's insanely here, but not about her album. Lots of rare to see one of these parking-lot queens roll with the big- background, with some writer’s ‘voice’ league pop stars. When she's on, Ke$ha can make everyone else on the charts seem like a church lady. (Lady K has stuck her dollar sign...), Over the past three years, Lady K has stuck her dollar sign on about Ke$ha’s colorful, musical past. a half-dozen or so of this century's most brilliant radio hits, all Great details here (megasleze boombox of them sounding more or less the same, and all of them endors- beats and junk shop rags) and clearly, ing the Ke$ha Philo$ophy of Life to the point where you bitterly the author did some great research. regret all the non-Ke$ha parts of your existence. From "Tik Tok" to "Blow" to "We R Who We R," she makes each of her hits into another installment of her cartoon glam-disco telenovela, an in- credibly broad and inclusive vision of pop trash.
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