Party girl, crank or professional provocateur, the 23-year-old from Nashville twinkles with laughter and passion for life.

There are as many ways of taking Kesha Sebert in conversation as there are of listening to her debut album, Animal. You can skim the froth off the surface and — as a number of notably irate and mostly male reviewers have done — dismiss the 23-year-old from Nashville, and her songs, as lightweight, or calculating, or crude, or bonkers. Many would contend that that last description would apply to the moment, late in our encounter, where she launches into a long riff about positive thinking and reincarnation. “I’m into energy,” she twinkles. “I recently went to see a past-life regressionist, who is also a psychic. I wear my placenta around my neck every day, because it’s supposed to give you second sight. I feel like I’ve had many lifetimes before.” You can view her whole shtick — the provocative videos, the co-opted dollar sign that renders her professional name as Ke$ha, the tales of throwing up in Paris Hilton’s wardrobe and breaking into Prince’s mansion — as Gaga-like attention-seeking, as the antics of someone who is more victim than victor in the cauldron of celebrity culture. Or you can listen, without prejudice, to the case she makes for herself, to the brutally attitudinal or self-aware lyrics, to the outrageously weird, ADHD-frenzied sonic inventiveness of Animal, and conclude that, when it comes to chart pop in 2010, Sebert is right at the front of the pack.

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PICTURES LINKS:
- Magazines & Scans from 2010: Nashville Scene – March 4
- Photoshoots from 2009: Shelby Duncan [Animal]

It was the day after Christmas, and we were dancing at 12th & Porter while Ke$ha danced barely three feet away. She already had the No. 2 song in the country, but she wouldn’t be a global it-girl for at least another week. Had we known that, a month later, we’d be fighting with Rolling Stone and most of the European Union to land an interview, we would have just violated the first rule of the Nashville Celebrity-Industrial Complex to cut in.

But at that point, Ke$ha — born Kesha Rose Sebert — was still just a girl from Brentwood who’d moved to L.A. to make pop records. Tons of artists head to the Left Coast to make music with big-name producers every year, but rarely do those albums see the light of day, never mind launch a single like “TiK ToK” — the hook-laden, bawdy dance-pop monster that recently sucker punched Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” for the longest run of consecutive weeks on top of Billboard’s Hot 100 charts. Not that we weren’t pulling for the sassy 23-year-old, but that sort of success is rare, and even rarer among people who’ve allegedly made out with not one, but two members of our Monday-night trivia team.

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Pop wild child Ke$ha has revealed how she tried tracking down her father – only to be left down and out in Los Angeles.

America’s hottest new rock chick has never met her dad and gave up any interest in finding him after a trip to the City of Angels proved to be a dead end.

Ke$ha – who has been at No1 in the US since the new year with Tik Tok – insists she wouldn’t be too thrilled if he turned up out of the blue. The 23-year-old said: “I made my way out to LA and stayed with this guy I thought could be my dad, but he’s not.

“At least I don’t think he is. There is a slim chance he is my father. I got off the airplane to meet him and immediately I was like, no way.”

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SINGLE OF THE WEEK with J from Ram FM (Listen to J weekdays 7-10pm and Saturdays, noon-4pm)

BLAH BLAH BLAH Ke$ha

UNAPOLOGETIC, brash, brazen, and the curator of brilliant pop music, Ke$ha returns with her second single and it’s more in your face than Tik Tok, and just as infectious, if that was ever possible.

Blah Blah Blah flips the tables on men, and Ke$ha demands throughout the song that she’s just not interested in the lines that guys spin to get a girl. And in a total 360, Ke$ha stamps her authority and basically claims “less talk, more action!” Indeed, it’s this type of attitude that has allowed the “nice girl” from Nashville to dominate the charts round the world. First time I spoke to her she revealed she’d broken into megastar Prince’s house; threw up in Paris Hilton’s wardrobe; and stole her mum’s car at 15 to go to a concert! So, she’s never going to win any awards on how to be a teenager, but awards for music – she’s going win loads!

Source: ThisIsDerbyShire.co.uk

Fans showed up dressed as animals for the ‘Tik Tok’ singer’s short club set.

Ke$ha donned her best zebra-print catsuit and hit the stage in London for a “secret” MySpace show on Monday night. The singer played a six-song set that included glitter cannons and dancing transvestites, according to reports.

The blog WeArePopSlags.com reported that many fans dressed in their best animal-print garb, an homage to Ke$ha’s debut album, Animal, as they partied at the Bathhouse, where the pop princess performed “Backstabber, “Party at a Rich Dude’s House,” “Dinosaur,” ” F— Him (He’s a DJ)” and her singles, “Blah Blah Blah” and “Tik Tok.”

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I’ve just added 2 gorgeous new Ke$ha portraits to our gallery. The first one by Gérald Géronimi at this year’s NRJ Music Awards and the second at the T4’s Stars of 2009 by Peter Pedonomou for an old cool Mirror article “Celebrity winter wonderland” (you can also read a small Christmas Q&A with Ke$ha by clicking here). Make sure you view them now!

PICTURES LINKS:
- Photoshoots from 2010: Gérald Géronimi [NRJ Music Awards]
- Photoshoots from 2009: Peter Pedonomou [T4's Stars of 2009]

I’ve just added some new scans of the April issue of Q Magazine that features an exclusive article and photoshoot with Ke$ha, thanks to my friend Sabrina. Make sure you view them now!

PICTURES LINKS:
- Magazines & Scans from 2010: Q – April

I’ve just uploaded the fabulous high quality scans of Ke$ha’s cover story on the February 27 issue of Billboard magazine, thanks to my friend James! Make sure you view them now. Such an amazing cover!!

PICTURES LINKS:
- Magazines & Scans from 2010: Billboard – February 27

I’ve uploaded preview pictures of Ke$ha’s article on the February issue of Venice Magazine and also some outtakes from the gorgeous new photoshoot featured in this magazine. Make sure you view all of the great pix now at our gallery!

PICTURES LINKS:
- Magazines & Scans from 2010: Venice – February
- Photoshoots from 2010: Patrick Fraser [Venice]

Ke$ha Untamed

And all the dudes are lining up cause they like the way we swagger But we kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger. -“TiK ToK”

These days, all that glitters is Ke$ha. With her smash hit, “TiK ToK,” landing the number- one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, the global pop superstar singer-songwriter likely has Lady Gaga shaking in her 10-inch Alexander McQueen stilettos. Ke$ha’s debut album, Animal, which was produced by Dr. Luke, is fierce, and loaded with pump-up-the-volume beats and clever lyrics that are destined to become some of the best one-line zingers to hit the pop-culture landscape.

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Ke$ha is featured on the February issue of Angeleno magazine. You can already read the article including an exclusive Q&A and also check a fabulous picture from a new photoshoot!

PICTURES LINKS:
- Magazines & Scans from 2010: Angeleno – February
- Photoshoots from 2010: Ethan Pines [Angeleno]

Q&A: Hipster hottie Ke$ha dishes on Prince & Paris

Ke$ha—the pride of L.A.’s Eastside hipster axis (when she’s not on tour, find her at La Cita, The Echo, the Gold Room and Cha Cha Lounge)—has totally blown up.

The Valley-born, Nashville-reared performer’s party-starting “TiK ToK” recently crested Billboard’s Top 100 list, and became the most-downloaded-in-a-week single by a female singer in U.S. history. Her first album, Animal, just dropped in January, and now (à la BFF Katy Perry before her) she’s shaping up to be the city’s next big pop breakout.

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