In Defense Of Ke$ha

I have yet to speak to someone who actually enjoys Ke$ha's music. I have yet to meet anyone who has bought or downloaded one of her songs, let alone buy an entire album. Well I am here to speak in defense of Ke$ha or rather, her music.

I bought her first single "Tik Tok" a few weeks after it came out Since that first download, I have since bought many other singles of hers. I downloaded "Take It Off" while buying shoes at Aldo; "Your Love Is My Drug" at the gym; and a few others at random locations for random reasons. It has always been only singles, until recently when I bought her entire second album, Cannibal, while running in the park.

Ke$ha's music can be obnoxious, whiny, and incredibly classless. However, her songs have been continually catchy and she does not appear to be vanishing like other hit-makers and one-hit-wonders. "Tik Tok" was the start of it all. How many of us have managed to work "feeling like P. Diddy" into a sentence? I know I have. Yes, it became overplayed but before that, it was just a fun dance song inspiring harmless underage drinking and partying, not to mention the rebirth of body glitter--and we all have missed that!

On her second album, there are actually some very good songs not yet released as singles so if you are one of many who are tired of the usual, you may want to consider listening to songs you have not yet heard millions of times in assorted clubs, bars and shoe stores. For example, "We R Who We R," is not so great, but other songs on the album such as "Cannibal" and "Animal" are actually quite good.

Katy Perry has become very successful from her songs about teenage lost love and memories of the "One Who Got Away." Ke$ha's song, "The Harold Song" has a similar tone. She is surprisingly touching in this song. It's all those love songs boiled down to the basics: "They say that true love hurts/ well this could almost kill me/young love, murdered/that is what this must be." A non-sugar coated love song. When you are young and in love, this is exactly how you feel. Life is over as you know it and nothing, even your mom's homemade spaghetti sauce can't make it better. Ke$ha has captured that.

Her lyrics in all her songs are not sugar coated which is a big reason why a lot of people don't like her. But think about it--we (men and women) are constantly looking for dates and mates that don't beat around the bush, they are straight forward, they don't play games. That is Ke$ha. In her song "Sleazy," she explains "me and all my friends, we don't buy bottles/we bring 'em/we take the drinks from the tables/when you get up and leave 'em." With all these songs out there, talking about how much money people have and they are poppin' bottles and buying out the bar, it is refreshing to hear from someone normal and broke Like the rest of us. We can't afford to shut down the club and yes we admit, we have brought our own liquor. Hey; it's cheaper.

Ke$ha also speaks up for women. She has many songs talking about how men need to have a personality rather than have money, be brave and ask a girl out rather than just stand awkwardly and stare, and to not grind up on us when we certainly haven't requested one to do so. She is saying "man up!" and based on recent encounters with men, especially in bars, I second that!

So, even though Ke$ha has awful fashion, wears too much silver make up for someone who is not David Bowie, and has no filter, she is fun to dance to, spunky, outspoken and a single-making machine.

Recommended songs: Sleazy, The Harold Song, Cannibal, Dancing With Tears In My Eyes