Ke$ha Holds a Candle to Country Music Influences
You know that old Dolly Parton song, "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You," from her 1980 album, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly? Well, it was written by Pebe Sebert. Doesn't ring a bell? She is the mother of that self-described white-girl rapper Ke$ha, who sings "Tik Tok." I know all this because I watched Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in The Simple Life. And on one episode, it was Hilton and Richie's job to find Sebert a man. She described herself as a single mom of three kids who played music, meditated and were free spirits. Her wish list for a man was a hippie who was spiritual but not a dumb ass who lived in his car. I've been thinking about all this because Ke$ha recently made some remarks that she was inspired by country music. "My mom wrote country music and I love Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash. I think at some point there might be some country collaborations or records in the future." With a past that includes characters like Parton and Hilton, I'm sure Ke$ha could write a few country songs about that.
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Robin says:
You truely give me a headache. What? You can’t think of something to write about in like the 30 min. since you posted your last blog so you come up with this stuff?
rosyz says:
I am not familiar with her songs and music but my kids are. They listen to her music.
Ernie says:
On behalf of country music, I take this as an insult.
This Kesha woman - screw the dollar sign - has minimal talent and her music has absolutely no message or redeeming value to it whatsoever.
txcountryfan says:
If Kesha gets a country album Johnny Cash and Waylon will be rolling in their grave.
RonLovesRose says:
I would venture to guess that when she said she loved Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash, whenever that was, that she did not then proceed to claim that Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash were in fact the same individual. Nobody is that weird.
The more important claim is “I think at some point there might be some country collaborations or records in the future.” Your average Joe might think, “Whoa, I see Taylor Swift, and Ke$ha, and Miranda Cosgrove, and Jennette McCurdy, and also Alex Winston, all on stage together, singing, in a downpour, “Need ur Need Bad,” and inviting me, Ron, to join them as they frolicked in their awesome wetness.” Not me.
I know what Ke$ha meant. By “records in the future” she is referring to criminal records. The kind associated with long term prison sentences. No joke. Heads will roll, because Kesha Rose Sebert is bad ass. And, totally prepared. Think sting. Think “To Surveil with Love.” Think “I’ve lost five phones.” Think Elephant in the room. Think “I’ll have a Starbucks while I drive to Weight Watchers.” Think “By the time I read this it will be too late. I’m toast.”
By “at some point there might be some country collaborations,” she means there are, currently, ongoing international investigations involving a wide variety of crimes perpetrated by a large set of individuals, “spoiled brats, who think they own the world,” whose members may include Paris Hilton. Surprise. Y’all thought Ke$ha was a stupid ho. Think again, but, alas, it is too late.
Y’all thought the Nahal Brigade, and Benjamin Netanyahu, and The Columbian, and Alan Turing and Kurt, and Secretary Gates, and Bill Werde, and Hao Wang and the Chinese Intelligence Service and U.S Cyber Command, and Leonard Peltier and the FBI, and the NSA and Nash money, and Prince and Garrison Keillor and Lilith Fair, were random. Think again. Now is the time to panic. No telling when the bell will toll for you.
I was going to quietly nominate Barbara Lavandeira for an award at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, and let them handle it. I messed up. So, although they thought they could protect themselves from the real world, they messed up, and the real world is coming to them. I was going to contact Brad Nelson at Starbucks, and have him bring Howard Schulz down with his Israel Award, so that he could show it to the Chinese. I thought maybe he could explain to them, for me, that I really do not mind images of the woman I told BiBi I would be honored to have as my wife, with my picture, sort of, drawn on them, and the claim someone came all over her. Hey, I have a sense of humor. So do the Chinese. It is the other images and bullshit we are concerned about. So, wassup with that Howard? You want me to tell Akiba ben Joseph he made two mistakes? You don’t need to make it right. I don’t want you to dry up all his advertising until his site looks like a shriveled olive. I don’t want you to handle it. I’ll do it myself. Thanks anyway. Who needs ethics?
If anyone sees Rose or Margo, at the same time, I would be surprised. Joy to them, wherever they are.
Tyler says:
KE$HA ROCK$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CON says:
I think it’s wonderful! Pop country needs some fresh blood. The ones we have to listen to now are starting to bore me already.
Ron says:
I love Ke$ha. She could bring real wisdom to country music. But, I am surprised that Pebe had three kids. No wonder she disagreed with Ke$ha about the guy in “Your Love is My Drug.” Quite simply, she has no conception of the state the world is in. Anyone under sixty who had more than two kids, and does not admit to their error, namely, putting too much of a burden on the planet, really has no place in conversations about anything important. They simply don’t get it.
snakes&ladders says:
That’s exactly what I wanted to say too, I just didn’t know how to word it.
Trevon says:
Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good informoaitn.