Post by No Personality on May 16, 2010 12:07:19 GMT -5
I give praise where it's due. We all know Ke$ha isn't here to stay. She's an incomplete non-artist doing "krunk" dance-pop / club tracks, she's only been on the scene for about 6 months and I think she's already starting to unravel. "Your Love is My Drug" just came out this week and it's weak. The video, not the song. The song is among the half dozen tracks on Ke$ha's Animal that actually reveal she has a purpose: to be the Paris Hilton of this genre of music to Lady Gaga's Madonna. A brat sensation with no true shelf life. But she is fun, when she's being nasty and doing her high-pitched skank rap (and you'll notice, this is about the only time her voice isn't being manipulated to make it sound sweet). Which makes "Blah Blah Blah" (and the hopefully impending video/single for "Dinosaur") sparkle among her album's high crap-quotient. This is Ke$ha being herself and it has no value outside of a flashy music video, true. But for a video, it's dazzling. With the help of money, also true.
"Blah Blah Blah" takes place in a bowling alley and right away, I'm getting impressions of an amusement park (or one of the wind-down rooms you might find there). For whatever reason, Ke$ha feels the need to fly upward through the air at will and looks damn good doing it. Finally, her makeup here tries to re-do her trademark "hot mess" look with slow drunk-girl eyes and too-human freckles. Now the brat-princess party girl comes out in full. It may still be posing but this is Ke$ha's show. She's finally become cool and spastic enough to pull off the spoiled brat routine (just look at her reaction once she removes the bald guy's toupee). As for the guest star token "cute guy" white rappers... well few videos are perfect but the novelty of pointing out that the girls likely to talk to them bare a striking resemblance to pull-cord talking dolls is highly clever. Basically, this is Ke$ha's sober party video and that's why it's a perfectly harmless amusement-park distraction. Yeah, she has no soul. Does she need one?