Is Ke$ha The Mainstream Nicki Minaj? – Tik Tok
New artist, Ke$ha who you might remember from Flo Rida’s song Right Round. Here is her first single and now I am officially a fan of hers. Her new song Tik Tok has Diddy on it, and she sounds like a Pop Nicki Minaj. Tell me what you think.
To pop the hood for this wonderful woman named Ke$ha who said: “There are a bunch of hippies who come in and out, and there are all these people sleeping on the couches. I don’t really care, I don’t mind it. But I woke up one day after we went to a party, and I was surrounded by ten of the most beautiful women you’ve ever seen. And I was like, I’m like P. Diddy — there’s no man like this in the entire world.”
ESQ: Is it hard to concentrate living with beautiful women crawling around your bed at night?
KE$HA: No, it’s inspiring. Bring ‘em on!
ESQ: Okay, but it must be difficult to be such a beautiful, single woman in such a big, bustling L.A. music scene.
KE$HA: I like to admire. I’m a fan of beauty, so it’s not hard for me. But I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that’s when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.
ESQ: So how do you avoid tragedy? Like I said, you’re kind of pigeonholed almost, clearly by the MTVs of the world, whatever people are making you out to be. Does the music speak for itself? You certainly do.
KE$HA: I hope so. I just filmed a viral video for my song “Backstabber” with a bunch of trannies…
ESQ: You seem to have a tranny thing.
KE$HA: I have this… It’s like my new pick. I’m really fascinated by them. Because I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence. “We don’t give a fuck/we don’t give a fuck” is one of the lines in the song, and it’s true: Me and my friends, no matter how beautiful or not, it’s just whatever. So I see these transvestites who are in my video, and I went to one of the drag shows, and I was like, That’s taking it to a whole new level.
ESQ: Speaking of new levels, there seems to have been this mass acceptance of the electro scene, which was kind of thrown under the bus for a while as some crazy Euro shit. But it’s almost got a pop sensibility now. Will that work for you as much as everything else has?
KE$HA: I like that I reached a lot of people I wouldn’t have reached had I not been on this [Flo Rida] song. But it’s also exactly the kind of music I do. But I’m a bit of a chameleon anyway.
