News : Ke$ha : Ke$ha , the glittery party girl and her mantras.

Friday, 5 August 2011
The glittery party girl is on a mission. Kesha, the self-proclaimed “dance commander” with the predilection for all things sparkly, and her “Get Sleazy” worldwide tour are coming to Dallas — again. She performed at a sold-out House of Blues in late April. But come on, that’s too small a venue to contain the in-your-face woman responsible for the incessant synthesized pop-dance radio hits “Tik Tok,” “Your Love Is My Drug,” “We R Who We R” and “Blow.” So she’ll headline Gexa Energy Pavilion on Thursday night with opening acts LMFAO and Spank Rock.

Kesha, now boasting three albums, Animal and Cannibal released last year and the recent I Am the Dance Commander + I Command You to Dance: The Remix Album, grabbed the phone to chat for about 10 minutes. Calling from Los Angeles, she shared thoughts on her tour, image and music.

The “Get Sleazy” tour and its everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach (glitter, bearded male dancers, Santa Claus and more glitter) aims to be the dance party of the year. It’s about throwing your inhibitions out the window, being free to be free, right?

“It sums up a lot of what I stand for and what I am,” she said. “I just want people to be crazy. I want people to be able to come to my show and be complete idiots, be yourself, have fun. I don’t care. Hopefully I am providing them that outlet for two hours.”

Your image, the glittery party girl, is all about liberation, unabashed fun. Is it invigorating for you?

“I am a free spirit and I am also very honest. I’m 24 years old. The party girl, people call me that. I do like to party, but more than a party girl I am the dance commander. I am inviting people to join the dance party and want people to dance. There are lots of things that bring down our spirits, whether it be financially, your personal life, everybody has issues. It is important to give people a place to come and have fun and let go. It is important for me to be the catalyst for people to have fun. I really believe that I was put on this earth to do this, to have people have fun.”

You love country music — Johnny Cash , Dolly Parton , Patsy Cline — so you write story songs, an homage to country, but package them as electro-pop-dance nuggets. Is it therapeutic?

“What I sing about is my lifestyle. I am very youthful and I have a lot of energy. We are like a cult of young people that don’t give a [expletive]. It’s important no matter who you are or what you do to try to find a little bit of joy in your life, whatever it is. Make light of the situation. Try to enjoy it. Live in the moment. Those are all my mantras.”

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