Frank Kogan

January 15, 2010 in koganbot: "I get the feeling that if I call Ke$ha a 'bimbo' she's somehow won, since it's not like she isn't absolutely, emphatically, gratingly self-conscious about her commitment to the most hackneyed and reductive ideas of wildness and partying and fun (and note that I'm a guy who loves Asher Roth's 'College,' so it's not like I can't get behind hackneyed ideas of wildness and partying and fun, but artistry is also a useful ingredient; enhances the fun, even). In any event, our desperately vapid young woman is in the forty with a new single and a well-downloaded album track, but has she risen as high in my esteem? Look under the cut.

"Ke$ha ft. 3OH!3 'Blah Blah Blah': Witless, joyless pleasure but not tuneless, unfortunately. After woefully underrating 'TiK ToK,' I can't in good conscience not tick this. TICK.

"Ke$ha 'Your Love Is My Drug': Oh, I get it. She's adDICted to his dick! Or maybe that was 'Blah Blah Blah.' But thank you, this tune is way short of catchy, leaving me free to simply hate her. 'I'm all strung out, my heart is fried/I just can't get you off my mind.' That's not even attempting freshness or creativity. I mean, what exactly does 'fried' add here, other than it sort of rhymes with 'mind'? Bimbo. NO TICK."*

February 8, 2010 in poptimists: "Ke$ha 'Blah Blah Blah': Desperate fun that reaches for dumb party clichés and dumber attitudes as if they were some kind of adventure. This is energetic and pretty enough to override my horror, though not catchy or smart enough to make something of the horror. TICK."

February 21, 2010 in koganbot: "Ke$ha holds off Artists For Haiti, a result that some people have qualms about, but not me. After all, there are far more avenues for getting money to Haiti than for getting money to Ke$ha."

And then I finally changed and rethought everything, as you can see in last Tuesday's Singles Jukebox.

*I still don't like "Your Love Is My Drug" much; it and "Stephen" are my two least-favorite tracks on the album.