Still ‘scummy,’ Ke$ha gets respect with new CD

By Ryan Pearson

Published December 5, 2012 1:16pm ET

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Still ‘scummy,’ Ke$ha gets respect with new CD — In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 photo, singer-songwriter Ke$ha poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. Her new album "Warrior," released Dec. 4, flaunts the same uncouth attitude that propelled her debut "Animal" and EP "Cannibal" up the charts. Like those albums, "Warrior" is filled with upbeat, living-in-the-moment anthems like current single "Die Young," now No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) | Chris Pizzello

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Becoming one of pop’s top-selling acts over the past two years hasn’t changed Ke$ha much — the girl who got famous by celebrating the trashy life is still reveling in it.

On her new album, she sings fondly of warm Budweiser and gives a thumbs-down to Champagne. One track is about sex with a ghost. She drinks bottom-shelf Taaka vodka.

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