She sang about brushing her teeth with Jack Daniel's, vomiting in the closet and drinking with boys in the basement.
Welcome to Ke$ha's Get $leazy Tour. The princess of trashy pop has been to the top of the charts three times (twice on her own, once being featured on Flo Rida's "Right Round") but now she's trying to graduate to headliner beyond the clubs. Her 80-minute concert Tuesday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St.
Paul showed her to be Britney Spears lite on a low budget -- except Ke$ha not only plays instruments but she also sings live (though not that well, frankly). However, she lacks Britney's sense of showwomanship. In fact, Ke$ha's performance was entertaining but less exciting than her cameo as the headliner last year at KDWB's Star Party at the Epic nightclub.
Ke$ha, 24, the daughter of a hit Nashville songwriter, is not much of a dancer, and neither were the four "dancers" accompanying her. They felt more like props in small scenarios than hoofers stepping to the banging beats. Moreover, Ke$ha's little dramas lacked theatricality and focus save for the dark and dramatic "Cannibal," during which she rhymed "goner" with "Jeffrey Dahmer" and plucked the heart out of male dancer and then drank blood from it. Much of the rest of her bits were filled with R-rated props, potty-mouth propositions and pointless horseplay that didn't fill the smaller-than-an arena room.
Ke$ha is all about faux debauchery. The musical equivalent of "Jersey Shore" with beats, she tries to play all the classic rock 'n' roll cards: sex, rebellion, excess and fun. Her songs are smartly dumbed down and as catchy as the flu. Song writing is clearly her strong suit. (She's written tunes for Miley Cyrus, the Veronicas, Kelly Clarkson and Britney Spears.) Her live singing was gratingly shrill and often sharp. Her rapping was, thankfully, limited because she hasn't mastered musical flow. Her playing of keyboards, drums and guitar was superfluous, though that guitar shaped like a rifle was an eyecatcher.
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