Thursday, August 11, 2011
WAPS INTERVIEWS KE$HA: “IT’S A MAGICAL UNICORN WHALE…”
WAPS INTERVIEWS KE$HA: “IT’S A MAGICAL UNICORN WHALE…”
Kesha at her debut London show at Centro
Ke$ha’s in town, bitches!
WAPS was lucky enough to catch ‘TiK ToK’ singer Ke$ha at her London showcase yesterday, and she kindly found time afterwards to sit down and have a chat with us. Delightful!
Read on to find out about her forthcoming debut album, what she thinks of P Diddy and Flo Rida, and what her Halloween costume of choice is. Loving your work, Ke$ha.
WAPS: Hi Ke$ha, first things first – excellent gig this week.
Ke$ha: I had so much fun, thank you for coming!
KE$HA and the Not-Quite-72 Virgins in Her Own Personal Heaven
Kesha Sebert doesn't want to be Britney Spears. Sure, the honest-to-badness 22-year-old offered her come-on-come-on vocals to Spears's "Lace and Leather" — and, much more notably, to rapper Flo Rida's chart-topping "Right Round." But the age of pop innocence that took Spears from teenage schoolgirl to tabloid "it" girl disintegrated precisely because Spears and her Top 40 spawn allowed themselves to be oversexed by a disintegrating industry.
Sebert, who goes unabashedly by KE$HA (the not-so-subtle dollar sign flashes up and down her MySpace page — not-so-subtle URL: myspace.com/KeshaIsHot), does not care to feign innocence. Her new solo songs are as straightforward as those of, say, Katy Perry (with whom she did a video), only without metaphor or filter. The running theme of one track is literally how she vomited in Paris Hilton's closet. And this from a young woman who, at 17, dropped out of a flight school on track to Columbia University.
So this weekend at Lollapalooza, where she commanded a kind of tractor beam to the tiniest of side stages (maybe it was those torn-to-shreds tights above, or what she not-so-subtly calls "dance-party fucking magic"), KE$HA didn't so much as bat a star-spangled eyelid at the idea of Spears as role model. "I think I have a really strong sense of exactly who and what I am," she said, swigging a beer. "And I think as long as I hold onto that and don't let any of the other bullshit seep in, I'll be alright."
Kesha
Biography
Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987 in Los Angeles, United States), better known mononymously as Kesha (stylized as Ke$ha or K$), is an American recording artist. An active singer since before 2005, her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida’s number one single Right Round. Ke$ha later supported Calvin Harris on tour in the UK and toured with Mickey Avalon in the US. She also performed at Madison Square Garden on December 11, 2009 for the Z100 Jingle Ball. She was announced as one of the acts for the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair and presented at the 52nd Grammy Awards.
Her debut album, entitled Animal, was released on January 5, 2010 in the US to mixed reviews from music critics. The album sold 152,000 copies in its first week in the US, debuting at number one.Animal was seven years in the making and resulted in Ke$ha’s accumulating over two hundred songs by the time of its release, with fourteen making the final cut. A number one placing in New Zealand for the first single TiK ToK (first released on August 7, 2009) gave Ke$ha her first solo number one; this was followed by number one positions in Canada, Australia, Norway and the United States, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as the first number one of the 2010 decade. During its second week at number one on the chart, TiK ToK set the female download record and became the second best-selling single in a week, after Right Round, for shifting over 610,000 copies. During its fifth week at the top of the chart, it broke the record for the highest weekly plays on the radio airplay chart. Her second single,Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3), was first released on February 19, 2010 and has since charted within the top 10 in four different countries.
Her debut album, entitled Animal, was released on January 5, 2010 in the US to mixed reviews from music critics. The album sold 152,000 copies in its first week in the US, debuting at number one.Animal was seven years in the making and resulted in Ke$ha’s accumulating over two hundred songs by the time of its release, with fourteen making the final cut. A number one placing in New Zealand for the first single TiK ToK (first released on August 7, 2009) gave Ke$ha her first solo number one; this was followed by number one positions in Canada, Australia, Norway and the United States, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as the first number one of the 2010 decade. During its second week at number one on the chart, TiK ToK set the female download record and became the second best-selling single in a week, after Right Round, for shifting over 610,000 copies. During its fifth week at the top of the chart, it broke the record for the highest weekly plays on the radio airplay chart. Her second single,Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3), was first released on February 19, 2010 and has since charted within the top 10 in four different countries.
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