why is she popular?

[VaudevillianVeteran]

After enquiring from my brother about why he likes her: He claims that he just finds her funny and her music has the perfect generic background music for car rides.

As for why she's so popular: It's a answer not many will find out.

 

[teqrevisited]

Kesha? Never heard of her/it.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Because she's a rebel to the established traditions of the English language, as her name is really Ke$ha, pronounced Keh-DOLLARSIGN-Hah.

*facepalm* Musicians today...

 

[dashiz94]

She's good looking and they have her singing easy simple songs that have mass appeal.

How in the hell is she attractive? She puts practically a pound of makeup on her eyes in every press shot.

 

[dashiz94]

So i'm not hating on kesha's music but what executive thought she was a talent worth signing. I was just watching television and one of her videos came on and it made me go WTF. She has no vocal talent and is not exceptionally attractive. Usually you would expect a music artist to have one of those qualities, so it leaves me to wonder why someone thought she was worth signing.
This may be an unnecessary rant but i hear her music all the time(at parties, on television, and at friends houses) and the frustration just built to a point where i felt like vocalizing my thoughts.

So anyone either refute my thoughts or maybe have some insight as to why she's popular?

Also any WTF music moments of your own?

Alcest. Never heard of them? (If you do then ignore the rest of this comment.) That's because they are an exceptionally talented band, but incredibly hard to market. They play a mix of black metal with shoegaze music, in other words fans of shoegaze may not exactly take too kindly to the screeching and vice versa. With Kesha (I fucking refuse to put a dollar sign in there)she sings, or rather autotunes, simple as hell songs with a catchy beat. Because of that, it's incredibly easy to market her. Anybody remember Aaron Carter? The guy was the equivalent of Justin Bieber for my generation and he quickly disappeared in the music industry. The same thing will happen to any pop star. It's called "pop" because it's meant for the mass population, and since everyone is fucking stupid, they'll listen to the music because "It's got such a good beat especially when you're making out with this chick when totally wasted bro!"

There. That's my rant on pop music. In short, she's popular because people are stupid, record companies exploit the stupidity, and it doesn't matter because like Aaron Carter, everyone will forget half of Kesha's songs in only five years time, while Alcest will be making more awesome albums. Excuse me as I go liten to Ecailles de Lune.

 

[Wordslinger]

While I agree that Ke$ha isn't exactly the most talented singer ever, if you don't think that she's hot, you need to get your eyes checked.

 

[dashiz94]

Kings of Leon.

How the fuck did that fucker get signed

Yes the BAND is good but the singer sounds like he has throat cancer mixed with shit.

Yet every **** loves them.

I really cant stand them

God yeah. The band itself I don't mind, but that arsehole's voice just pisses me off. It sounds like he's on the verge of tears everytime he sings. I just want to punch him and tell him to stop being such a whiny *****.

Same with Basshunter. I don't like them, but many of my close friends do, so I inevitably hear it. I hate those fuckers.

But you gotta admit, Russian Privyat is a great song

 

[SultanP]

Well, I went to check out her music, since I had never heard of her. But I stopped when I saw that her name was written with a $ instead of an s. It might just be me who is being closed minded, but if someone spells their name using anything apart from proper letters, I'd rather just not have anything to do with them. Of course that might change if I met someone who did that and found out they were a decent person, but so far I've been able to stick to my bigotry.

 

[TheLaofKazi]

I've never heard any of her music, so I listened to "Tik Tok."

I thought it was alright. The synthesizers had sort of a retro video game sound.

And I actually like that she's not super perfect and attractive. She looks more like a normal person.

The one thing I do like about a lot of pop music videos is how bizarre they are. Stuff like Lady Gaga or this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCUtnuAXg8]. It's sort of interesting how all of the imagery, the rhythm, nearly everything appeals to sex or style in some way. That's why a lot of pop we see today is so popular, it's so sexual and bizarre. If you want to get people's attention, those are the two main things you need to do, make it sexual, make provocative, and make it bizarre.

And I'm not just talking about how attractive the singers are, but look at the video. The weird outfits appeals to fashion and fetishes, it sort of adds a cloud of mystery to the singer, which people tend to find sexy (that mysterious girl with a suggestive smirk on her face). The spiders, snakes and scorpians in the video kind of add that "sting" to the singer. The pink car, the pink outfits, the bright pink lipstick, the pink hair, the pink helmets, see a pattern here? The rhythm is sort of tribal like, the video has a sort of jungle theme to it, which a lot of people also find sexual. It's an artistic way of directing appealing to our sexuality.

 

[LongAndShort]

Kings of Leon.

How the fuck did that fucker get signed

Yes the BAND is good but the singer sounds like he has throat cancer mixed with shit.

Yet every **** loves them.

I really cant stand them

God yeah. The band itself I don't mind, but that arsehole's voice just pisses me off. It sounds like he's on the verge of tears everytime he sings. I just want to punch him and tell him to stop being such a whiny *****.

Same with Basshunter. I don't like them, but many of my close friends do, so I inevitably hear it. I hate those fuckers.

But you gotta admit, Russian Privyat is a great song

I'll admit most of their songs would be great if they had a different vocalist. Until they get a new one (which will probably be never), I will continue to hate.

 

[Mr. In-between]

If she's on TV, chances are that she is disposable and no one will know who she is in about a year.

 

[Contextualizer]

Katy Perry's a terrible singer, BobDobolina. Have you ever heard her live?

I love all kinds of pop music, but not all pop musicians are talented (I'm not saying Ke$ha is either).

I feel a little bad for Ke$ha. She's one of those people who's so obviously going to be just chewed up and shat out from the lower intestine of the celebrity culture machine. If she's lucky she'll make a comeback on the club circuit a few years later doing something totally different, like reggae or country or something. (Fun fact: up until fairly recently, Vanilla Ice was still touring, fronting a metal band of all things.)

As for her appeal: blandly danceable, forgettable music that delivers just a teensy dash of inconsequential and non-threatening pseudo-rebellion. Trashily-cute but not intimidatingly hot; girls will be convinced that they can successfully emulate that look and that cool guys will like it.

Depressing fact: the much more talented Katy Perry has put out a song that sounds almost exactly, like note-for-note, identical to Ke$ha's "Tik Tok."

Katy Perry's a terrible singer; have you ever heard her live?

I love all kinds of pop music, but not all pop musicians are talented (I'm not saying Ke$ha is either).

 

[SultanP]

I've never heard any of her music, so I listened to "Tik Tok."

I thought it was alright. The synthesizers had sort of a retro video game sound.

And I actually like that she's not super perfect and attractive. She looks more like a normal person.

The one thing I do like about a lot of pop music videos is how bizarre they are. Stuff like Lady Gaga or this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCUtnuAXg8]. It's sort of interesting how all of the imagery, the rhythm, nearly everything appeals to sex or style in some way. That's why a lot of pop we see today is so popular, it's so sexual. And I'm not just talking about how attractive the singers are, but look at the video. The weird, bizarre outfits appeals to fashion and fetishes, it sort of adds a cloud of mystery to the singer, which people tend to find sexy (that mysterious girl with a suggestive smirk on her face). The spiders, snakes and scorpians in the video kind of add that "sting" to the singer. The pink car, the pink outfits, the bright pink lipstick, the pink hair, the pink helmets, see a pattern here? The rhythm is sort of tribal like, the video has a sort of jungle theme to it, which a lot of people also find sexual. It's an artistic way of directing appealing to our sexuality.

That video you linked was really, really freaky. Especially the second half. I wonder when it got modern to make them so freaky. I remember back when it was a rarity to make the weird in that way, and they were few and far between, at least in mainstream culture. Wasn't it Madonna or Missy Elliot or someone who made one with a lot of really weird people being kinda zombie-ish or something. Really freaked my out back in the day. Seems like Gwen Stefani started making it popular, and people just ran with it.

Back to the video you linked, holy cow Nicki Minaj has an epic "badonkadonk".

Edit: Missy Elliot also made that freaky one with all the crickets back before she lost some weight.

Also, excuse the ramblings of a tired guy.

 

[Contextualizer]

Katy Perry's a terrible singer, BobDobolina. Have you ever heard her live?

Oh, I'm not saying Katy Perry's good. Just that she's more talented than Ke$ha. (No, I haven't heard her live, I'm just talking as a producer of studio product.)

*shrug*

They're both vocalists that rely heavily on Auto-Tune/Melodyne. The only difference is that Perry has better songwriters and producers.

Anyway, it seems like we're pretty like-minded. Why do you think so many of the users here are so outraged at people liking pop music? I find it fascinating (if a little cliche).

 

[Dags90]

Katy Perry singing with an acoustic live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0mPWgal-o

This is purported to be an unreleased demo from ages ago by Kesha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWzYDnbkzc

The first one is pretty convincing. I think the real problem is poor management, sticking to formula by investors. I can't say I blame the companies, or the artists themselves. There's just not a lot of money in being an obscure folk singer.

 

[Daipire]

thats just your opinion i hate
lady gaga
all forms of rap pop and love songs
not by nickleback

That sounded like a poem.

I hate lady Gaga
All forms of rap pop and love songs
Not by Nickleback

That's a Haiku right there