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  Ke$ha and will.i.am's Whistling, Whispering 'Crazy Kids' Is All Too Sane

  April 19, 2013 – Neither crazy nor kids, Ke$ha and will.i.am have paired up for a scientifically formulated dance-pop song ready to pair with vodka bombs at your local sketchy club that smells funny.The result, "Crazy Kids," has moments that'll make you chuckle at your car radio in a "TiK ToK" or "I Gotta Feeling" way. …
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  Ke$ha Quits Waitressing for Psychedelic-Furry Van Odyssey in Wild 'C'mon' Video

  January 11, 2013 – The number on Kesha Rose Sebert's waitressing time card is 420. The restaurant where she works is called Awful House. The furry-filled, avocado-colored '70s hippie van Ke$ha drives off in a little ways into her new "C'mon" video has one of those Super Mario Bros. …
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  Ke$ha Eloquently Explains Her Doubts About 'Die Young' Lyrics

  December 20, 2012 – Ke$ha has once again spoken out about her song "Die Young" and how its lyrics have been construed in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, this time in a way that helps show why she's such a much-needed figure in pop right now.Radio airplay for the singer and songwriter's Warrior single posted about an 11 percent decline after last week's horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, with some stations yanking " …
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  Ke$ha Apologizes for 'Die Young,' Claims She Was 'Forced' to Sing Controversial Lyrics

  December 19, 2012 – Ke$ha has expressed sympathy after reports her hit "Die Young" fell off the airwaves after the tragic shooting last Friday at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. "I'm so so so sorry for anyone who has been effected by this tragedy," the Warrior princess tweeted last night. "and I understand why my song is now inappropriate. …
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  Ke$ha's 'Die Young' Radio Airplay Drops After Sandy Hook School Tragedy

  December 18, 2012 – The time for Ke$ha's "Die Young" should be right about now. Though the YOLO-themed dance-pop single could never match the unabashedly trashy singer's self-hype about "cock pop" when it first came out, it was easier to love in the context of her entire sophomore LP, Warrior, and since then its Dr. Luke-fritzed hooks have had ample time to get stuck in our heads. …
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  Who Charted? Taylor Swift Is Back on Top as Ke$ha Creeps in From Below

  December 12, 2012 – First! Taylor Swift's record-smashing Red climbs back to the top to rack up a fourth (non-consecutive) week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She sold 167,000 copies of her fourth album last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. We'd like to believe that about, oh, I dunno, maybe 55 percent of that came from SPIN giving Red the No. 38 slot on our Best Albums of 2013 list. Figuring in the No. …
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  Ke$ha, 'Warrior' (RCA)

  December 3, 2012 – Forget the Mayan calendar: Ke$ha Rose Sebert more likely picked up her last-days fetish while growing up on her songwriter mom's food stamps among dispensationalist millenarian suburban classmates who hated her purple hair back in the turn-of-millennium Bible Belt Kentucky. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Rage Against the Machine, Ke$ha, Sufjan Stevens, Mogwai

  November 28, 2012 – Another bounty of full-album streams is upon us. Clear your day and hit that play.1) Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine XX. "Their debut seethes with revolutionary fury, and it still sounds fresh on the lavishly ... remastered redux that includes demos [and] B-sides." - SPIN (via Spinner)2) Mogwai, A Wretched Virile Lore. …
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  Hear Ke$ha's 'Warrior': Iggy Pop, the Strokes, and Ghost Sex (Plus Yodeling)

  November 27, 2012 – Ke$ha has been talking up the "balls-out, irreverent rock'n'roll" of her follow-up to 2010's Animal since early last year. Now Warrior is almost here — the release date is December 4 — and you can hear the whole thing yourself for free via iTunes. …
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  Glitter and Hoo-Ha: Inside Ke$ha's 'My Crazy Beautiful Life'

  November 26, 2012 – It might be a stretch to include Ke$ha's My Crazy Beautiful Life (Touchstone) among this year's outpouring of musician memoirs. Truth is, the book, released November 20, is billed as "photo journal and scrapbook." As far as, you know, words go, we're mostly looking at a series of short captions. It's a fan book. …
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