Pop music always has room for another unruly badass who runs her mouth. L.A.-based Ke$ha may have been on your radar prior to her current radio smash “Tik Tok” as the voice on Flo Rida’s #1 track “Right Round,” on which she was credited internationally but not in the U.S.

The 22-year-old writes all her own music – she’s kind of obsessed with it – and even broke into Prince’s Beverly Hills home once. Her essence is really that of the anti-pop star. It’s easy to compare her sound with Lady Gaga’s musical style, but you can’t discount her outspokenness and lyrical savvy that comes off as one part Pink, another part Beastie Boy. Her material is the pop star equivalent of Kathy Griffin or Mo’Nique, with enough raunchiness to parallel a slew of Howard Stern shows.

“I’m not a brain surgeon, it’s pop music,” she says. “I don’t take myself too seriously – it’s supposed to be a fun ride.”

Ke$ha’s debut single, “Tik Tok,” boasts a filthy, addicting beat with beeps and blips, and it broke the Hot 100’s top 10 in late 2009. But she’s not letting the success go to her head. In fact, it has the opposite effect. “I try not to think about it because it kind of gives me anxiety,” she states. “It’s awesome. I honestly don’t think about it, but now that I am it’s giving me anxiety. It’s flattering that people give two shits about what I’m saying. Like people give a shit about me brushing my teeth with Jack Daniels. If it were with Jack Daniels I would brush my teeth more often!”

The signature dollar sign in her name was originally added just to be funny. “I was just singing on ‘Right Round’ and it was #1 in like a billion countries and on Kidz Bop and nobody knew it was me, and I didn’t make any money on it,” she says. Already, Ke$ha has worked with Pitbull on “Girls,” another song with Flo Rida called “Touch Me,” and she’s worked with Mickey Avalon, Taio Cruz and her good friends 3OH!3. Dr. Luke, super producer of hits like Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” and Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” co-produced “Tik Tok” with Benny Blanco, which appears on Ke$ha’s debut effort, Animal.

Originally from Nashville, Ke$ha describes L.A. as an adult playground. “It’s kind of a shit show,” she says. “You know, it’s kind of like Vegas, but like all the time. It has this sort of tragic vibe because it’s built upon so much bullshit, broken dreams and ghosts haunting people.”

As far as her own career goes, Ke$ha doesn’t see herself becoming one of those lost souls. “I don’t know how I’m going to change in the future, but I could become a nun next year,” she jests. “I want to be known for standing for irreverence and carelessness and having fun with everything. It doesn’t mean you have to get fucked up. I want people to be happy. I want to increase some endorphin levels.”

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Uffie has insisted that she has no intention to start a fight with Ke$ha, who has been accused of ripping off her sound.

The underground star admitted that there are strong similarities between her Justice collaboration ‘Tthheeppaarrttyy’ and Ke$ha’s debut single ‘Tik Tok’, which has spent eight weeks at the top of the US chart.

“I didn’t know about it until people kept saying, ‘Have you heard this girl who stole your song?’ There are definitely some similarities, but everybody is influenced by something and everyone samples stuff,” she told Digital Spy.

“I’m not saying I’m down with it, but I’m not going to talk s**t about her. What she does isn’t my kind of music, so I’m not going to pay attention to it.”

She added: “There’s some guy who played them at the same time and apparently only the words are different. There’s a definite similarity there.”

Paris-based Uffie, who gained widespread underground popularity with debut single ‘Pop The Glock’, is scheduled to release her first album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans in spring.

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The US singer scored the longest-running number one debut by a female for 33 years last week, with ‘Tik Tok’.

But she insists her new-found fame has not gone to her head and insists she is eager to avoid spending “gross” amounts of money.

“I can’t stand pretentious people. I think growing up without money has taught me not to take myself seriously.

“I’m the same person I when I was selling clothes to buy a taco for dinner, I just have a few extra bucks,” she explained.

‘Tik Tok’ has been at the summit of the American chart for eight weeks. Her debut album, ‘Animal’, was released earlier this month in the UK.

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