‘Cannibal’ features six typical Ke$ha songs, two powerful power ballads, and a Billboard remix of ‘Animal’
When Ke$ha asks you to party with her, beware—you may just be a victim of her self-proclaimed cannibalism—and her new extended play, ‘Cannibal,’ is eating away at good music taste.
‘Cannibal,’ the EP for Ke$ha’s album ‘Animal,’ was released on Jan. 1. The nine-song EP was made available in stores on Nov. 22. It is a mix of electronic beat backing, auto-tuning, and vocoder abuse. While Ke$ha may be topping the Billboard Charts, her music stays grounded in tasteless lyrics and her over auto-tuned trademark. The two gems in her EP don’t sound like Ke$ha at all, while everything else is reminiscent of “Tik Tok.”
What’s new?
On the whole, Ke$ha hasn’t changed much at all. The songs that have potential for deeper meanings such as “Sleazy” and “We R Who We R,” are rendered just as insignificant as “Tik Tok” because of their cringe-worthy lyrics. Ke$ha sing-speaks in “Sleazy” that she would rather “grab a bottle and some boys and get back to her basement” to get “sleazy” instead of be in the company of a wealthy admirer. While the message that money doesn’t matter in love could earn Ke$ha points, the fact that the rest of the song is just another mess of alcohol, partying, and sex revokes any merit she could earn from the song.
“Sleazy” by Ke$ha
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“We R Who We R” follows suit, in which Ke$ha describes “sleeping in cars” and “hitting on dudes (hard!).” Evidently her producer was not intent on changing her auto-tuned, lyrically challenged character in the music industry—after all, she’s making money. Each song has its own variation of a bouncing bass beat, and the lyrics deviate from boys to whiskey to partying, but overall ‘Cannibal’ sticks to the tried and true Ke$ha formula.
Most of the EP’s other songs feature unsophisticated lyrics — not a big surprise, keeping in mind her past work. “Cannibal,” of which the EP is named after, could very well be the theme song to Megan Fox’s “Jennifer’s Body”—it includes a reference to the serial-killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. What’s even more disturbing than that reference is that Ke$ha’s mother, Pebe Serbert, contributed to the lyrics of “Cannibal.”
The two songs that redeem ‘Cannibal’ are “The Harold Song” and “C U Next Tuesday”—both tame love power ballads foreign to Ke$ha’s audience. For once, Ke$ha isn’t sing-speaking about how she wants guys to meet her in the back by the jukebox. “The Harold Song” and “C U Next Tuesday” expose a more sentimental side of Ke$ha, and while her other songs are always undeniably danceable, these two songs offer something softer for those who don’t usually listen to Ke$ha to consider.
“The Harold Song” by Ke$ha
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However, Ke$ha most likely will not be moving from the pop music industry to love songs, and she will continue to provide the same beats while eating away at a healthy appreciation for better music.
