Pop princess paradox

I've been listening to Top-40 hits for quite some time and it has drawn my attention to pop singer Kesha (or if you prefer the more stylized version: Ke$ha). Now I'll admit that 'Tic Toc' is a pretty decent song and is undoubtedly a huge hit in clubs and bars. But that's not what bothers me. If you listen (and watch) to how Kesha behaves, you can't help but wonder if she's had a few too much to drink?

Sure, Hollywood loves its alcoholic beaverages and fancy cocktails with umbrella's, but what I'm more concerned about is how teenage girls will respond to Kesha's "off-the-hook" behaviour.

The girl definitely loves her Jack (Daniels), as she mentions it in pretty much every song on her album 'Animal', but I don't think it was ever meant to brush your teeth with. So the picture that comes to mind is that of young girls listening to Kesha, looking all ghetto-ish, grabbing their daddy's bottle o' Jack and spilling it all over their bright pink toothbrushes.

Moreover, Kesha's second song 'Blah Blah' begins with her asking you to meet her at the jukebox with a bottle of Jack (that's a given) and then drop trou and flash her some male flesh. Can you imagine the parent-teacher conferences that are going to be held over little Tommy who was flashing his goods to Sleazy Susy behind the bleachers?

Now it's pretty obvious that Kesha's kind of promiscuous (or downright slutty), but in most songs (say Nelly Furtado's 'Promiscuous Girl' or any other 'damn sexy bitch' or 'how many licks' song) this flirtatious attitude is appreciated and moreover adored. However, Kesha's gone all over by not only adressing sex and alcohol, but all the while acting completely bombed while she's adressing those items.

This is made clear from the very beginning of every single one of her songs: her speech is slurred, her movements aren't as coordinated as they would be with sober people - or even slightly tipsy people. In one song, she even thinks it's cool to 'mess with grammar' ("It only matters who I IS") and further idolize being hammered on international radiowaves.

People have often proclaimed violent games and subtitles as the seed of destruction for the minds of the young, but I can't help but wonder how these people will feel about Kesha's liquor-soaked lyrics.

Now somewhere in Kesha's mind, she thinks her attitude is really cool and that it will get her to the top, maybe even knock Gaga off her throne (never gonna happen, but we can always dream, right?), but the more she wants to be respected as a singer, the more she just comes over as a self-righteous, totally slushed, completely out-of-it whore who thinks she can make hits by knockin' a few back. This is what I like to call the Pop Princess Paradox.

We've seen it happen so many times before (La Spears and her new hairdo - or lack of one, Lohan and her lezzy-phase) and we will surely keep seeing it as long as there is alcohol to fill those umbrella-tinted cocktails and as long as there is promiscuity and shamelessness in the world.

So from one lover-of-the-bottle to another: Kesha, for god sakes, get yourself together, stop drinking, learn some proper grammar rules and stay the hell away from that mic, cause no good can come of it.