Some people were bothered when Ke$ha joked about brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels on her breakthrough song, the drunken party anthem “TiK ToK.” But it wasn’t that big of a deal. However, on the singer’s new release, “Cannibal” — the companion to her January debut CD, “Animal” — the 23-year-old takes it too far, and her desperation for attention and shock value is obvious.
On the title track, which starts with the singer panting like an animal, Ke$ha talks about drinking blood, eating a person’s liver, sucking teeth and using fingers to stir tea over a pulsating beat. While that’s already disturbing, Ke$ha continues with this: “Be too sweet and you’ll be a goner, yup I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer.”
Seriously?
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| » Artist: Ke$ha |
| » Label: RCA Music Group |
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$eriously?
To compare yourself to a man who raped, killed and ate human beings is ridiculous. It isn’t cute — nor artistic. It’s sad — as is the rest of her nine-track CD, which is filled with vapid lyrics and battles any T-Pain album for most use of the Auto-Tune.
What makes things worse is that Ke$ha’s mother, Pepe, a songwriter who penned a song for Dolly Parton and also co-wrote tracks on Ke$ha’s debut album, is listed as one of the co-writers for the song “Cannibal.”
Ke$ha said in an interview in May with the Associated Press that “people will start to respect me as a writer.”
$ure.
