I gushed too much about Ke$ha’s debut single last year to write more of the same about her follow-up, Blah Blah Blah.
Except that – against all odds – it really reminds me of an early 90s clubbing classic from my Sheffield days.
I pose the question… Could the doyenne of “I’m a drunk mess” pop have once been a regular at Occasions nightclub, behind the BT offices in Charter Square? It was, after all, the home of the bleep scene.
(Reality check: She would have been five years old at the time. So probably not.)
Here’s Ke$ha’s new, erm, masterpiece.
And here’s that early 90s clubbing classic, Testone by Sweet Exorcist – one of the first releases on Sheffield’s seminal Warp label. Can you spot the similarity?
Sweet Exorcist was Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) and Parrot (later of All Seeing I); its video was directed by none other than Jarvis Cocker.
As noted here, the Blah Blah Blah video makes prominent use of Nokia’s X6 handset. Presumably Nokia have paid for this, given the enormous size of their logo on the phone.
Is it just me, though, or is Ke$ha really struggling with that on-screen keyboard? At 0:51, all she’s trying to type is repeated exclamation marks, but even that seems to be a tricky, hesitant process, with the very real danger at all times that she might hit the backslash key instead.
And at 0:23 – well, I would never have imagined texting What a mega douche MASTER!!!!!!!! could look so awkward and unergonomic.
Maybe she could release a branded stylus?
(NB – This isn’t one of the music production posts which I so blithely promised yesterday would be “next” on this blog. They’ll be, erm, next.)
