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Kesha is an American pop singer and songwriter. Her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single "Right Round". Her debut single, "Tik Tok," was released in August 2009 to much commercial success. It reached number one in eleven countries and set the weekly records for the most digital downloads of a female artist and of the total Top 40 Mainstream airplay records in the US. The song also became the longest running number-one debut single by a female artist since 1977. Her debut album, Animal, was released in early 2010 and debuted at number one in the US. Kesha will make her debut Saturday Night Live appearance on April 17, 2010 as the musical guest. Her musical credits in 2010 include a co-write for Miranda Cosgrove's debut album as well as features on Taio Cruz's single "Dirty Picture", Travie McCoy's single "Want U Bad" and on 3OH!3 and Mickey Avalon's records. She will be the opening act on the North American leg of Rihanna's Last Girl on Earth tour and had earlier been announced as one of the acts for the revival of Lilith Fair.

About Kesha

Kesha and her music have been dismissed early on as lightweight, calculating and crude; she has also been perceived as a victim in the "cauldron of celebrity culture". Kesha has been noted for her party girl image and behavior; The Guardian called her "the degenerate Hannah Montana" and stated that "her whole shtick appears to be predicated on the idea that she's a rebel in American Apparel." Kesha in turn states that she is "fighting a war against pretension" and that she felt people could "take themselves just a little less seriously."

Kesha has listed Beck, Queen, Madonna, Johnny Cash, Aaron Neville as well as rap and old-school punk bands such as the Beastie Boys and The Damned as musical influences. Her lyrics are influenced by the storytelling style of country music.

Kesha uses a sing-song rapping style on a number of her songs, most notably on her debut single "Tik Tok". The New York Times proclaimed that the success of the song represented "the complete and painless assimilation of the white female rapper into pop music." The Los Angeles Times compared this vocal style to that of L'Trimm and Salt-N-Pepa. Kesha has been criticized for using Auto-Tune on her album Animal.

Kesha has writing credits on all of her songs. She described her music as irreverent and defended her decision to make pop music for Animal as opposed to "more serious acoustic stuff", explaining that she wanted to "give people something that brings them joy." Additionally she regards the need for her live shows to be "rowdy and really fun, and hopefully dance-inducing".

Kesha credits her album Animal as having a rock edge, with straightforward lyrics based on her life experiences. She has expressed frustration at the double standard for the objectification of women in music. Thus, in songs such as "Blah Blah Blah" and "Boots and Boys", she makes it a point to sing the same way men traditionally sing about women. She has urged critics not to take her lyrics seriously; such as in "Tik Tok", where she has been criticized for referencing brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.

Her music is of the dance-pop genre; it incorporates elements of electropop in its production. Animal ranges from high energy pop dance songs, to techno ballads, to songs with guitar riffs. When it comes to her slower ballads, Kesha states; "Even if it is a slower song it’ll still have that four-on-the-floor to keep the heads moving".