# What is your favorite Kesha song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904 "2011-08-08T02:34:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/22 "2011-08-08T16:31:11Z")
God forgive me, I’m a 38-year-old man and I kind of like “Take it Off.” A fair amount. OK, I like it a lot. The only other song of hers I’ve heard is “Tik Tok”, which I don’t care to hear again. Oh, the things you’re reduced to for entertainment when you’re in a car several hours a day. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/23 "2011-08-08T16:32:52Z")
I thought it was spelled “Kedollarsignha.” ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/24 "2011-08-08T16:40:35Z")
I’ll cast my vote for “Blow.” And can someone link to the unicorn/van der Beek video? Sounds like I’ve been missing out! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/25 "2011-08-08T16:44:22Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I thought it was spelled “Kedollarsignha.” That’s how James “Van der Douche” says it in the video..😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/26 "2011-08-08T17:04:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > …I totally “got” Kesha right away. There was no fucking way she was serious about anything and totally knew how to make an over-the-top-cheeky video. Which, to be clear, isn’t the same as being _fake_, in the sense I meant above. I was talking about the difference between an artist doing what she loves versus what she cynically thinks will sell. Anyway, I do like many strains of dance music including some pop ones. “Over the top” is entirely complimentary in some house circles. I like some elements of the work by her enormous composition and production team. I mainly just can’t stand that thin voice, sometimes smug, sometimes whiny when she doesn’t mean it to be; what little character it has is more or less the opposite of what I like in dance vox. Her tracks are arranged to give maximum support to her voice by any means possible, so they sound incomplete in instrumental mixes, but I still like them more in her absence. Well, they don’t actively annoy me. I might like a couple of them with different singers. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/27 "2011-08-08T17:29:40Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is [this](http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/kesha/) the interview? > > In it, she uses the phrase “what I’m bringing to the table” which, yeah, is phrasing quite a bit above the level of her persona. > > She also mentions a Brian Greene book she’s reading, which doesn’t take a genius, but is once again quite at odds with her persona. Well, yes. Then again, > [@Kesha](#): > > That record is so fun and youthful, but it’s dangerous at the same time and just makes you want to get crazy in, like, the funnest possible way. > [@](#): > > I was peeing in the sink, and I felt bad for the people who were waiting in line because they could hear me peeing, so I started singing, “Turn around, every now and then I get a little bit lonely . . .” > [@](#): > > Like, I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there’s a possibility of me gaining second sight—like being psychic. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/28 "2011-08-09T02:34:33Z")
> [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > I’ll cast my vote for “Blow.” > > And can someone link to the unicorn/van der Beek video? Sounds like I’ve been missing out! I’m very happy to oblige. It’s not every day you see a music video that alludes to the parliament of Uzbekistan. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CFWX0hWCbng/maxresdefault.jpg "Ke$ha - Blow (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWX0hWCbng) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904/29 "2011-08-09T02:54:55Z")
If you want to talk fake, you go with Gaga. She intentionally sings badly or covers up her voice with tons of effects so she can sing popular music. That’s being fake. Personality is irrelevant. (And using Auto-Tune doesn’t count these days) As for the OP: sorry. I don’t think Ke$ha can sing, so I don’t have a favorite. I don’t really care about the persona or lack thereof if you sing poorly. (And, no, covering it up with speak-singing and overuse of Auto-Tune doesn’t fix your voice.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kesha-song/591904.md?page=1)