New Headlining Dates In San Diego and Phoenix
		June 25th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Announcements, Appearances, Articles
Any Ke$ha fans out there in San Diego or Phoenix? Ke$ha is excited to announce that she’s coming your way for some special headlining shows this July, and she wants her fans to have first access to presale tickets before the general public! Presale tickets will be available HERE beginning TODAY June 24 at 12PM Local Venue Time! Presale tickets are limited and available on a first come, first served basis, so don’t miss out! 7/20/10 – House of Blues (San Diego, CA) 7/22/10 – The Marquee Theatre (Phoenix, AZ) Source.
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	Ke$ha hits up the Horseshoe with Shad and The Arkells
		June 22nd, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles
Ke$ha may have questionable tastes in fashion but she knows her after parties. Last night, the Horseshoe Tavern hosted an exclusive, invite-only MMVA after party with The Arkells serving as the in-house band. The Hamilton, Ont. group dished out several Motown covers like ‘My Girl’ to an insatiable (and sweaty) crowd before pulling out a roaring cover of The Beatles’ Twist and Shout. Brad Schwartz, the senior vice-president and general manager of the Much MTV group, was seen smiling all night as he danced and bobbed to the beat. Other notables in the crowd were MTV’s Dan Levy and Shad, who later joined The Arkells on stage for a couple of songs. Ke$ha hung near the bar for most of the evening where she lived up to her image as a no holds barred party girl. In true Canadian modesty, Max Kerman invited her on stage to sing but “only if she [wanted] to.” Near the end of the party, the ‘Tik-Tok’ singer finally accepted the offer by trading the dance floor for the stage as she sung Outkast’s ‘Ms. Jackson’ with Kerman and Shad. By the looks of it, Ke$ha would definitely be waking up in the morning feeling like P Diddy. Source
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	The Star article
		June 20th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles
With her rather trashy esthetic — cowboy boots, big hair, smudged makeup, nose hoop — and anecdotes about throwing up in Paris Hilton’s closet and sending gift-wrapped poop to enemies, singer-rapper Ke$ha is easy to dismiss as a lightweight who got lucky with the handful of infectious electro pop tunes that catapulted her into the spotlight. Not high fashion like Rihanna, outrageous as Lady Gaga, or clever as Katy Perry, the Nashville-based, L.A.-born performer has remained competitive on the strength of her January debut, Animal, which has scored three top ten singles, “Blah Blah Blah,” “Your Love is My Drug” and the ubiquitous “Tik Tok,” which spent nine weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart to become the longest running No. 1 debut single by a female artist since Debby Boone’s 1977 “You Light Up My Life.” That party anthem is rife with typical Ke$ha insouciance — “I’m talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk/ Boys tryin’ to touch my junk, junk/ Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk.” Up close, the performer, who is in town to perform at Sunday’s MuchMusic Video Awards, was surprisingly sober, as in both lucid and serious. Chatting with the Star backstage after soundcheck at the network’s Queen St. headquarters, Ke$ha cited Bob Dylan as inspiration, lauded the power of positive thinking and came close to tears on the subject of animals dying in the Gulf oil spill. She seemed older than her 23 years despite the trademark shorts and glittery eye shadow. “I am a very serious songwriter and a very serious artist and I take what I do very seriously; it just so happens that what I do is make people dance,” said Ke$ha who co-wrote every track on Animal. “And as silly as it may seem it’s very important for people to have fun. My main objective with this record is to embody youthful irreverence and happiness. “I was broke, my family was broke, all my friends were broke, and instead of making it into a pity party and writing a slow, depressing record, I decided to look at it as a challenge and in a positive sense.” Though she was raised with two brothers by mom Pebe Sebert who struggled with her own singing career before finding moderate success as songwriter, Ke$ha wasn’t deterred from going down the same path. “Ever since I was little, she told me that’s it up to me to create my own reality,” explained the entertainer who went from “yodelling around the house” as a child to starting her first band in Grade 8 and moving back to Los Angeles on her own at 17 to pursue a pop career. “I’ve actualized all of this. Singing was the only thing I ever thought I was really good at and I thought might as well run with it, because I love doing it and I don’t feel like being a banker.” Though her nascent demo landed in hands of Animal’s executive producer Dr. Luke six years ago, Ke$ha toiled in the trenches — penning tunes or singing backup for the likes of The Veronicas, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears before getting a break on Flo Rida’s top-selling “Right Round” last year. “That was a huge turning point. I didn’t get credit or money from it — I got featured internationally, but not in the States — but for an artist who has been struggling, been raised by single parent who is a struggling artist, finally to hear your voice on the radio and to be taken seriously as a songwriter and musician and an artist and a singer was a massive moment for me.” She adopted the dollar sign in her name as “a confidence booster, because I was really broke and instead of being upset about it I decided no money was not going to bring me down. I was not going to let a dollar get in my way of realizing and actualizing my dreams. So put it in my name like, ‘I’m money, bitches! and here I am.’ “ Here she is, riding high with 4.9 million downloads, two MMVA nominations and the opening act slot on Rihanna’s summer tour. “Tik Tok” has been featured on The Simpsons and Ke$ha has made the rounds of all the high-profile American award and TV shows, including the Grammys and American Idol. Too busy to move out of her mom’s basement, she’s so big her former managers have filed a $14-million lawsuit against her. “I’m very lucky, because I’m at a point where I can start reaching to a lot of people about things that are important to me; that’s really an upside to fame, but the rest of its really weird.” Like the way everything she says goes viral. Yes, Ke$ha did tell some reporter or other about sending dog excrement to somebody that pissed her off, but she describes herself as “mortified” now that the story is making the rounds. She’d prefer people view that as the by-product of a creative mind and follow her lead on rescuing abused and abandoned dogs and raising money for Tennessee flood victims. “People think I named my record Animal, because I’m a party animal. I can be, sure, but I feel like I am very much an animal, I’m very much in touch with that side of myself.” That begs the obvious question. “I wish it were something sexy like a jaguar, but I think I’m like a seal or a narwhal — something far more awkward and interesting.” Source.
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	Ke$ha Flood Benefit
		June 18th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles, Music, Pictures, Preformaces
We were just at Bonnaroo, so we should be used to bizarre, sweat-drenched scenarios, but Ke$ha’s way-sold-out flood benefit made Bonnaroo look like a temperate day at the church picnic. We knew shit was going to be hectic when we had to wait in line for 15 minutes just to pay for parking. (Seriously, it seems like a bunch of people skipped their remedial button-pushing class. It ain’t that tough, folks.) When we actually made it out of the parking lot and into the venue, event staff were already pulling out limp, convulsing, heat-stroked bodies to the strains of Heypenny’s quirky indie pop. Now, we’ll admit that Heypenny has made us limp from time to time (for completely different reasons, obvs) but we have to say that watching a hot, hazy club full of people who obviously don’t spend a lot of time in clubs totally enraptured was really endearing. If we had a dollar for every person we heard talk about how cool their set was when we were outside getting some desperately needed oxygen, we could have gotten really drunk and bought a bunch of hot dogs. Whatever jokes we might make about our favorite local TV-toting marching band, we were proud as hell to see them rock that crowd. Same goes for Space Capone. We missed their set at Bonnaroo because John Fogherty insisted on not only playing center field but also screwing up our whole damn schedule, but it was really nice to seem them make the people who like popular things move like Space Capone was a thing that was popular. And we mean “popular” as in “on TV” or “on the radio,” because we’re guessing that telling most folks in that audience that Space Capone bring a lot of people out to Mercy Lounge would be like reading baseball stats in Cantonese at a Polish wedding — let’s just say that all of our area malls were probably understaffed last night. For reals, if it had started raining before everyone tried to get inside, we would have been waist-deep in glitter and runny eyeliner. If there had been a fire, the whole city would have smelled like burnt sequins and day-glo half-shirts for weeks. If the club had been struck by lightning, all of the hoop earrings would have created a impromptu Tesla coil and generated enough electricity to open up a rift in the space-time continuum like something out of that movie My Science Project. Dinosaurs! Aliens! Abe Lincoln! And there were children! Everywhere! Not that The Spin wasn’t listening to sorta-explicit, sorta-raunchy pop music when we were a wee lil’ Spin-ling, but seriously: Why was there a six-year-old standing on the bar? It was like Coyote-Ugly-meets-To-Catch-a-Predator with midgets screaming, “Show me where your dick’s at!” Totally, absolutely bizarre. And awesome. Who doesn’t love kids saying inappropriate things in public? We definitely heard a tween get scolded for dropping an F-bomb, and we’re gonna go out on a limb and say that kid is going places. Y’know, like juvie. And she’ll probably end up at the free clinic once or twice before all is said and done. Welcome to the club, kid! Now, we’re not gonna lie: We know all the words to all of the songs on Ke$ha’s debut album Animal, and our expectations for her performance were really high. Again, we were just at Bonnaroo this weekend, and we had seen Eli “Paperboy” Reed wreck shop at Mercy on Tuesday, so anything less than a great performance just wasn’t gonna do it for us. Luckily, Ke$ha and her band know how to turn out the party. Of course that’s also way easier to do when you’ve had a No. 1 record and you’re playing for a hometown crowd who — based on our rather prodigious eavesdropping — are abso-fucking-lutely insane about you. There are not a lot of local acts that bring out such slavish devotion and utter adoration. Her set was basically a one-two punch barreling through most of the tracks on her album, lots of flashing lights and crowd participation. “Your Love Is My Drug” was particularly anthemic, but we’re still not sold on “Stephen” — it’s our least favorite track on the record. Still, there’s no denying that pretty much everyone else in the sweat lodge of a night club was belting it out at full blast. By the time she played “Tik Tok,” her monster of a monster hit from this past winter, we were delirious, sweaty and super-super-stoked. Maybe you don’t like that song. Maybe you’d be happier with your Wilco records. But give us a fist-pumping party banger any day of the week. And give us a Ke$ha show, too — against our better judgment and a serious desire to stay out of the heat and humidity for at least a week, we had one hell of a time, and can’t wait until she’s back again. But maybe next time they can do it at the Cannery, or somewhere there’s at least a little bit of air circulation. Source.
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	Kesha, ‘Take It Off’ — New Song
		June 18th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles, Music, News
Kesha’s new song, ‘Take It Off,’ cements her status as one of the most electrifying dance artists today. With its thumping opening, electro-infused beat and furious crescendos, the dance single is all but guaranteed to be a staple at clubs everywhere this summer. And when Kesha talks about a “place I know,” where “they go hardcore and there’s glitter on the floor” in the style of a six-grade camp ditty, it’s hard for anyone to not feel the urge to just take it off. ‘Take It Off’ is the hyper-kinetic singer’s latest single off her smash hit album, ‘Animal,’ which was unleashed in January. Much like the rest of the album, this new song is simply made for the dance floor. And, much like Kesha herself, the track seems to embody relentless, carefree hedonism at its best. Tune into AOL Radio’s New Pop First station to hear Kesha’s new single. Source.
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	Ke$ha talks Nashville flood benefit
		June 18th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles, Interviews, Preformaces
Since her album debuted at No. 1 in January, pop superstar and Nashville resident Ke$ha has spent much of this year basking in global fame. Now, she’s getting a chance to put the focus on rebuilding her hometown. She’s headlining her own Nashville flood relief concert at Limelight Nashville on June 16, with 100 percent of profits going to help flood victims. We spoke with the 23-year-old singer on Tuesday about the benefit, her reaction to the flood, and how she spends her downtime in Music City. What made you want to put on your own flood benefit concert? “Nashville’s my home, and more than that I kind of think Tennessee’s the soul of America. I’ve grown up here and absolutely love Nashville. I feel like it’s all of our responsibilites as members of this community to give back, myself especially. “If I’m in any sort of position to give back more so than somebody else, I want to do everything and anything I can to help Tennessee and Nashville especially. There are so many places here that hold a very special place in my heart, like Tootsie’s and Robert’s and Lonnie’s, Jack’s Barbecue, and obviously the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman . . . We still have a community and each other, and I really want to bring people together, and try to make as much money as possible for Nashville, because we can rebuild and we are rebuilding. Support is really important, especially for the people who lost pets or houses, cars and especially loved ones. I just want to do anything in my power to help.” Do you remember what you were doing/where you were when the flood came in? “I was somewhere, and my Mom called me and she’s like ‘It’s raining,’ I thought, ‘Oh, OK. No big deal.’ Then the next day, she said ‘It’s kind of a problem. The basement is flooding a little bit.’ But we’ve had that issue before with just a little bit of water. I didn’t really understand the magnitude of the situation, but it was next day that I saw a little bit on the news and I talked to my mom, and she said it was a national tragedy, really. I didn’t really comprehend it until the next day, when I flew over Nashville and I saw bodies of water that I thought were lakes with roofs of houses in the middle of them. “My plane touched down, and my mom picked me up, and there was just this weirdness in the air. She told me about everything that had been happening, and we just went straight to Sam’s Club and bought as much dog and cat food as we could pile into the car and took it to the Humane Society, because I’m a huge animal lover. I was thinking that I can do so much more. I mean, anybody can give what they can, their time, or a little bit of money, and for me, that was a bunch of dog food, but I’m really in the position finally to help in a big way, which is to me, one of the biggest upsides of the whole fame thing. Really, the only part of celebrity culture I take seriously is the fact that I am going to get to reach a lot of people about something this serious, that a lot of people need to be aware of. So I’m excited to get to use my fun little dancy pop songs to reach a large audience and hopefully make a lot of money for a lot of families that can’t help themselves.” How did your mom’s basement turn out? “Oh, it’s fine. We have kind of a dog rescue at my house, but all of the animals were fine, and the basement’s fine. I mean, we got some stuff ruined, but it’s not even worth talking about in comparison with what other families have lost. I just feel very lucky that it was just a bunch of stuff and no animals, no people and nothing really expensive.” Is this show a one-of-a-kind thing, or close to what you’re going to be doing on tour with Rihanna this Summer? “It’s not full-on what I’m going to be bringing to the stage with Rihanna, because the tour is obviously on a massive, massive stage. . . . This show is exciting because I’m playing the songs I’m most proud of on the record, that are maybe a little bit more serious, which I think will be fitting with the mood, the situation and why I’m playing this show. “I’ll be playing (Animal’s) title track for one of the first times ever, and a song called ‘Stephen’ about this guy who used to live here named Stephen, so I’m really hoping he comes to the show, because that would be so horribly, terribly and wonderfully awkward. It’s still going to be a dance party, but I am very aware of why I’m playing it, so I’m not going to act like too much of a crazy idiot.” What’s it like to come back to Nashville when you have some downtime? “It’s amazing. I’ve been home for 24 hours and I’ve already been jet skiing and tubing, and yesterday I went canoeing in a thunderstorm with my little brother. I just love that I come here and totally escape into my animal side, and everyone here is also super respectful. I don’t need security or anything when I’m here. I can just go out for coffee and nobody really cares about it . . . everyone’s cool and wants to hang out.” Ke$ha’s flood benefit concert starts tonight (June 16) at 7 p.m. at Limelight Nashville (201 Woodland St., 780‑3099). Online tickets are sold out, but will still be available at the door for $30. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the show is all ages. Source.
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	Ke$ha’s dance party to aid victims of Nashville flood
		June 16th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles, News
Since her album debuted at No. 1 in January, pop superstar and Nashville resident Ke$ha has spent much of this year basking in global fame. But tonight, she gets to put the focus back on rebuilding her hometown. She’s headlining her own Nashville flood relief concert at Limelight Nashville tonight, with 100 percent of profits going to help flood victims. “I’m really in the position finally to help in a big way, which is to me one of the biggest upsides of the whole fame thing,” Ke$ha told The Tennessean Tuesday afternoon. “Really, the only part of celebrity culture I take seriously is the fact that I am going to get to reach a lot of people about something this serious, that a lot of people need to be aware of.” She says the tone of tonight’s show will be slightly different than the one she’ll be bringing on tour with Rihanna this summer. She’ll be including songs of hers that she’s most proud of, those she thinks are “maybe a little bit more serious.” Related Ke$ha “It’s still going to be a dance party, but I am very aware of why I’m playing it, so I’m not going to act like too much of a crazy idiot.” Ke$ha’s flood benefit concert starts today at 7 p.m. at Limelight Nashville (201 Woodland St., 780-3099). Online tickets are sold out, but tickets will be available at the door for $30. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the show is all ages. Source.
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	Rock of Angels: Women in Music 2010
		June 15th, 2010 ♥ Posted by Chloe ♥ Posted in Articles, Photoshoot, Pictures, Videos
KE$HA Photographed January 11, 2010 at Pearl Studios in New York City “Tights and leggings are okay in my book, but pants are just so boring.” Just when we thought our bottle-blond pop stars couldn’t get any weirder, a whiskey-fueled, glitter-encrusted 23-year-old named Ke$ha proved us so very wrong, unleashing her hard-partying manifesto “Tik Tok,” in which she compares herself to P. Diddy and boasts about brushing her teeth with a “bottle of Jack.” The daughter of country songwriter Pebe Sebert, Ke$ha wrote most of her debut album, Animal, while she was “broke as hell,” living out of her car in Los Angeles and recording background vocals for artists like Flo Rida. “People give me grief about my lyrics,” she says, “but I try to show the freedom to be yourself, unapologetically and irreverently.” This summer, she’ll take her wacky live show on the road—she’s known for wearing headdresses and doing cartwheels onstage—opening for Rihanna. “If I don’t perform so hard that I feel like I’m gonna throw up, I didn’t do a good job,” she insists, though as her music suggests, her shows aren’t the overproduced spectacles of her blond counterparts. “I just have fun.”—Julie Vadnal
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