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

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.”

News : Ke$ha : Party girl Ke$ha tones it down for Del.

If anyone at the Delaware State Fair was curious why the hard-partying Ke$ha was kicking off her North American summer tour in Harrington, the pop star cleared things up at the top of her show Tuesday night.
"Delaware!" the heavily-mascaraed 24-year-old shouted, wearing a black one-piece paired with ripped fishnets. "Are you ready to party?"
The high-pitched screams of the crowd, dominated by school-age girls and teens, gave Ke$ha the answer she was looking for before breaking open a 90-minute, 15-song set of her biggest hits.
Given the sometimes raunchy nature of Ke$ha's act -- after all, this is called the "Get $leazy Tour" -- fair officials had promised a PG show from the trash pop queen, whose regular shows normally veer closer to an R rating. The originally scheduled opening act, dirty rap duo Spank Rock, had already been bounced in favor of the Seattle pop act Champagne Champagne.
Still, at the time of the show's announcement, some fairgoers were not happy with the booking, especially considering the fair's family-friendly atmosphere. And leading up to the show, it was hard to imagine what a PG-rated Ke$ha show would look like.
Just this week, Ke$ha promoted her tour in Rolling Stone magazine by saying it would feature a sexually suggestive confetti cannon that she would ride. And earlier this month, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who was co-hosting "The O'Reilly Factor," condemned Ke$ha, calling her "cultural rot."
On this clear summer night, Ke$ha never got to ride her cannon, seemingly abiding by the fair's rules. And while her performance was somewhat tame, her language was anything but. Ke$ha did not censor her lyrics, leading to a show peppered with four-letter words. She also let an f-bomb or two fly during song introductions.
While the show didn't quite live up to the PG promise, it did rev up thousands of Ke$ha's fans who crowded the track to see the pop world's latest bad girl in person. (The show did not sell out, however, and there were plenty of seats available in the Grandstand.)

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