Buzz Bites (3/1/2010): Courtney Love Wants To Nurture Ke$ha, Lil’ Wayne Preps For Prison
Author: webc+ Ke$ha has found a new fairy godmother in the form of Courtney Love. The Hole frontwoman recently took to Twitter to provide some advice that Ke$ha will certainly find amusing, if not particularly useful: “”Sweetheart you make me go all maternal, I want to save you from the jaws of impermanence and soul death.” Awww, isn’t that sweet? (Perez Hilton)
+ Curious as to what exactly Lil’ Wayne’s daily routine in prison will be like? Well you could watch re-runs HBO’s Oz or, for a more realistic (and less violent) take, read this interesting interview with a corrections officer who breaks down exactly what Weezy will be facing. Apparently, “He’ll be able to watch television, go into the day room and congregate with people of his classification.” Sounds like my last vacation! (MTV News)
+ Last week, we highlighted the emotional plight of a certain 3-year-old girl who achieved Internet infamy after being captured on-camera, sobbing about Justin Bieber. Well, the frown is upside down now because the weeping toddler finally got to meet her favorite singer during the taping of a Jimmy Kimmel Live! sketch. (E! Online)
+ Lady Gaga had a pretty whatever weekend, bumming around London, grabbing some sushi and wearing… horns?!? Does this make you horny, baby? (PopEater)
+ Alicia Keys launched her Freedom tour this weekend and it looks like the R&B queen is getting rather theatrical this time around. Check out this collection of snapshots taken at the tour’s first stop in Ontario, Canada—and note the amount of cage-dancing that seems to be taking place. (That Grape Juice)
The hottest, coolest music shots this week were taken across the pond, including at the NME Awards in London, and in the city that never sleeps — even when it snows — New York.
Buzz Bites (2/17/10): Lady Gaga Wins Brits, Adam Lambert Watches Ke$ha Perform
Author: webc+ We know about Lady Gaga’s fabulous entrance to the annual Brit Awards, but what happened next? Gaga cleaned up, that’s what. Lady Gaga won awards for Best International Artist, Best International Breakthrough Act and Best International Album for The Fame. She also performed a heartfelt, torch-song version of “Telephone” and a fabulous take on “Dance In The Dark,” dedicating her live turn to her beloved and recently deceased friend, designer Alexander McQueen. (PopEater)
+ After 108,000 fans turned out at his gargantuan new Cowboy Stadium in Dallas, Texas, for the NBA All-Star game, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones got himself a little idea: He wants Jay-Z and Eminem to play the enormous arena, spitting bars underneath the venue’s ridiculous 160-foot-wide, hi-def screen. It would be pretty incredible to see the two do their duet, “Renegades,” in that kind of setting. (MTV News)
+ In news that’s sure to make certain people feverish with Ghostbusters Proton Pack streams of excitement, Adam Lambert watched Ke$ha give an impromptu, drunken (shocker) perform of “Tik Tok” and her new single “Blah Blah Blah” at the New York City nightspot, Club 57. Lambert took in the trashiness with Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black. (E! Online)
+ And just as I was hoping “The Catalano” hairstyle would be making a comeback! Check out famed celeb photographer Terry Richardson giving 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto a haircut. Comes out rather faux-hawkish, no? Well, that’s what you get when you don’t go to a licensed, properly schooled barber, man! (Oh No They Didn’t!)
+ To top off our Buzz Bites, we can’t do any better than this: Kanye West galfriend and Buzzworthy object of obsession, Amber Rose, backing that thing up on Project Runway mini-diva Christian Siriano. Ah, you’ve gotta love New York Fashion Week. (Crunk + Disorderly)
What, you were expecting her to go all Pride And Prejudice? You thought Ke$ha’s new single, “Blah Blah Blah,” would be some kind of restrained, measured act of emotional restraint? You thought the presence of 3Oh!3 would signal some uptick in maturity? You thought there wouldn’t be any Auto-Tune? No references to whiskey and private parts?
C’mon, son! It’s Ke$ha, it’s 3Oh!3, it’s Auto-Tuned, it’s filthy (as in NSFW — you were warned), and you love it.
“Blah Blah Blah” (co-written by Buzz On artist, Neon Hitch) is the follow up to the chart-topping, parody-spawning smash “Tik Tok.” The track resembles “Tik Tok”’s hybrid of electro, new wave and hip-hop, while the lyrics find Ke$ha giving into her primal side, shushing a guy who thinks his sweet talk will get him some, as he ruins Ke$ha’s favorite song with his yapping.
Representing the male side of this battle of the sexes, the boys in the 3Oh!3 spit a rhyme over the bridge about not caring who Ke$ha is. Feisty, fun stuff. Prepare to hear “Blah Blah Blah” constantly, team.
+ Listen to Ke$ha, featuring 3Oh!3, “Blah Blah Blah” here.
Videos of the Week: Ke$ha Goes To Hollywood, Snooki Meets Phoenix, Nirvana Plays Twister
Author: webcIn this week’s top videos that had people buzzing, Ke$ha vandalized — or at least pretended to vandalize — the sacred Hollywood sign, “Jersey Shore” star Snooki gave us priceless moments at the Grammys, Nirvana played Twister, New Kids on the Block unfortunately did not choose to lip synch on “Jimmy Fallon,” and more.
Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” is replaced at No. 1 by Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” (RCA/Sony Music Entertainment) on European Hot 100 Singles, but Gaga maintains pole position on Billboard’s European Albums chart with “The Fame” (Interscope/Universal).
After several of music’s biggest stars showed their support for Haiti relief efforts, consumers are doing the same.
It must be a testament to Ke$ha’s sound and image that she become such vital source material for online parody.
A while back we hipped you to the Midnight Beast’s self-effacing, decidedly nerdtastic version of “Tik Tok.” Now we have a more tongue-in-cheek take on Ke$ha and her smash hit.
This latest take on “Tik Tok” comes courtesy of the sketch comedy site Barely Political. It features a Ke$ha lookalike who gives a markedly more frank take on the effects of the singer’s hard-partying lifestyle. Namely, she wakes “up in the morning looking greener than Shrek,” tends to get vomit in her hair (I know, TMI) and falls down the stairs.
This parody couldn’t have bothered Ke$ha too much; the video is part of an online contest held on her official site to find the best “Tik Tok” video. Ke$ha even did a vlog announcement for the competition. She thinks the parodies are, “amazeballs.”
You can watch Ke$ha contest announcement and Barely Political’s parody video below.
Drake and Ke$ha are the latest acts to be added to The Bamboozle Festival roster, joining the likes of MGMT, Paramore, Mike Posner and headliners Weezer, among others.
A week after Lady Gaga set a milestone mark on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, Ke$ha rewrites the record.
Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” tacks on a fifth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 and moves into the pole position of Radio Songs (2-1), claiming the No. 1 spot with 119.7 million listener impressions. The title also maintains its perch atop Digital Songs, shifting 244,000 downloads (down 4%).
Man, it really is Ke$ha’s world, folks. We are just subletting. Let’s crunch some numbers: her debut album, Animal? Number 1 on the Billboard album charts. Her debut single, “Tik Tok?” Number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Her follow up single, “Blah Blah Blah?” Debuted at number seven. And she’s presenting at the Grammys.
Ke$ha’s already inspired a parody video. Now she’s got Miley Cyrus‘ little sister Noah lip syncing to her song on YouTube, and I’m pretty sure it’s only a matter of time before you start seeing gals rocking her eye-patch style makeup look and crazy fallen-eagle feathers in malls all over the blessed nation of ours.
So prepare yourselves for the victory lap in the form of endless TV appearances. Wednesday night the California trash-pop star hit Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to perform “Tik Tok.” Gone was the eye makeup, but she more than made up for it with the industrial amount of glitter applied all over her body and, oh yeah, THE NATIVE AMERICAN HEADDRESS.
What’s kind of cool about this clip is the fact that, despite being the most popular person in the world right now, Ke$ha’s still keeping it pretty gully with a minimal band featuring her side-hawked hype-woman and biker gang bass player. Never forget where you come from, y’all.
Watch Ke$ha’s performance of “Tik Tok” from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, as well as future hipster icon Noah Cyrus’ take on “Tik Tok.”
Ke$ha maintains her standing atop the chart for a fourth straight week with “TiK ToK,” while fellow “Animal” album cut “Blah Blah Blah,” featuring 3OH!3, is the chart’s Hot Shot Debut at No. 7.

(Credit: Liza Chrust / MTV)
A star as bright as Ke$ha’s clearly didn’t come about by way of earthly pursuits. Aside from making questionable lifestyle choices — passing out in the bathtub, brushing her teeth with Jack, puking in Paris Hilton’s closet, continually mistreating her speakers, not wearing a seatbelt, and generally not getting enough sleep — the secret to be being Ke$ha actually lies in the supernatural… and scuba diving… And Ke$ha’s had plenty of experience with both.
In this new episode of “The 5,” Ke$ha reveals what she inherently knew you were already wondering about — her psychic powers. You’ll also hear about her hardcore, unbridled enthusiasm for scuba diving. And then things really start to get weird. See, Ke$ha’s a haunted woman. Some annoying-ass ghost has been boo-ing and woo-ing her every night in her dreams. (Sounds like a Beyonce song to me.) Thing is, the ghost clearly HATES long flights. Which means if Ke$ha moves to London at some point in the near future, it’s probably because she’s doing some ghostbusting.
Watch Ke$ha’s new interview to see what the hell I’m talking about.
The late, great Notorious B.I.G. once asked, “What’s beef?” He then answered his own question: “Beef is when you need two guns to sleep.” But were Biggie still with us, he might amend that line to add, “Beef is also when you barf in Paris Hilton’s closet.
According to a new piece of journalism published in Life & Style, just such a beef-starting occurrence went down between Hilton and current It Girl, Ke$ha.
In the story, the “Tik Tok” singer recalls the time when Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie brought their traveling socialite road show to Nashville and stayed at Ke$ha’s pad during an episode of The Simple Life.
Years after this initial meeting, as Ke$ha was making her way up the ladder of fame and stardom, she found herself at Hilton’s Hollywood abode and, after a night of Animal-istic behavior no doubt, “ralphed” in Hilton’s closet.
One might think we have a battle of the blonds on our hands, as Hilton seems like the type to take note of such a trespass and file it away under: Girls I Now Loathe. But no! Hilton tells L&S she has no recollection of said wardrobe puking, “The only person who’s probably mad is the housekeeper who found it.”
We’re all in the same gang, y’all. Let’s hope, in the future, Ke$ha treats other people’s property better than she treats the place in her “Tik Tok” video, no?
Hot 100 topper Ke$ha made the talk show rounds this week to promote her new album, “Animal,” visting Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday afternoon and Conan O’Brien last night.
Song You Need To Know: Ke$ha, ‘Your Love Is My Drug’ + Is Ke$ha The New Britney?
Author: webcHow will Ke$ha top “Tik Tok,” the breakout smash single which helped her album, Animal, achieve one of the biggest first-week of sales in iTunes history?
Ke$ha could go soft and sensitive, revealing another side of her party girl persona. Or she could continue down the path of brushing her teeth with single-malt whiskey.
Looks like Ke$ha chose the latter. “Your Love Is My Drug,” one of our favorite tracks off of Animal, pretty much picks up where “Tik Tok” left off.
“Your Love Is My Drug” is a pounding electro track with a sweet chorus that feels a little bit like Katy Perry’s “Waking Up In Vegas.” And despite the song being about an obsessive attraction, Ke$ha still manages to make mention of hard-partying and rehab.
Elsewhere on the Internet, the news/opinion site The Awl is weighing in on the importance of Ke$ha and the possibility of her becoming the new Britney Spears; charting her-out-of-nowhere-success with that of “pre-Federline” Brit.
According to writer David Cho, a combination of Ke$ha’s inherent talent, her high pedigree of production (Dr. Luke) and, especially, her trashy aesthetic dovetailing with our current popular culture’s obsession with shamelessness, could all lead to mega-stardom for L.A. pop brat. Interesting stuff.
What do you think? Could Ke$ha be the new Britney?
+ Listen to Ke$ha’s “Your Love Is My Drug” here. And watch Ke$ha buy her new album.
The first sales week of 2010 could be another battle for No. 1, as Susan Boyle and newcomer Ke$ha compete for the top spot on the Billboard 200.
As reported yesterday on Billboard. com, Ke$ha maintains her perch atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week with “TiK ToK” while setting the record for most single-week downloads by a female artist (610,000).
Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” shifts 610,000 digital tracks for the week ending Dec. 27, according to Nielsen SoundScan — the highest weekly sum by a female artist since tracking began in 2003.






