Ke$ha – Music from an Animal
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February 4, 2010 • Walter Prado
Filed under Music Reviews, Top Stories
The “TiK ToK” singer released her debut album in early January of this year. The good news? She produced some catchy songs. The bad news? That’s about the only good thing that can be said about this album.
Starting with the cover, the singer is featured in an overly-photoshopped image of herself trying to look fierce, or needless to say, an Animal. The overwhelming portrayal of her name with the pointless dollar sign replacing the “s” completely takes over the cover trying to make her look like a badass musician. The only thing it accomplishes is making her look like a wannabe gangster desperately trying to get noticed with overly-processed songs, which brings me to the topic of the music of the album itself.
Giving the singer the benefit of the doubt, this album has potential to be a good one. If the lyrics were not so shallow and had deeper meanings embedded within them, perhaps it would be easier to take her seriously as an artist. An even more disheartening fact: she co-wrote all of the songs, which gives her the image of a party-animal (notice the correlation with the title of the album) who is incapable of doing and thinking about anything else besides it. Proof of this is in the titles of the tracks themselves (for example, “Animal”, “Party at a Rich Dude’s House”, “Hungover”, etc.). One of the few good things that can be said about the lyrics is that she at least tries to put deeper meanings into them. However, she fails in doing so. The pop-singer serenades “Your love is my drug…” Unfortunately, that is about the only lyric that occupies the chorus.
Lyrics aside, the production of the songs is not half-bad. However, it is the overproduction of the tracks and her voice that turned me off in the first place. It is obvious that the so-called artist is not strong vocally, as auto-tune is majorly used in most, if not all, of the songs. Perhaps vocal lessons would have been an appropriate option prior to the start of production on this album eh, Kesha (oh, I’m sorry, Ke$ha)?
If you are the type of person that solely pays attention to the catchiness of songs, and not so much the lyrics, then this album would be ideal for you. Otherwise, don’t bother wasting your money. Personally, I’m only keeping this album to take up some of the 120 gigabyte space that occupies my iPod. My final rating: D+.
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I wholeheartedly agree, think you hit the nail on the head with the auto-tune comment.
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Amaaazing Walter! I really like your review. And the catchiness of her songs is also pretty much the only thing I like. And you know we both go crazy over Tik Tok (: I wanna be in Literary Publications!
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Great review!
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